[AusNOG] Discussion point: Why aren't the NBNCo tails symmetric in speed?

[Caillin Bathern]

>Why it is 100/40 at the top speed and not 100/50 is harder to answer.

Probably so that you have timeslots left for overhead like management channels and also for dedicated timeslots upstream for VoIP.
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