[AusNOG] NBN again

[Ben Cooper]

That talk from simon is great.

Well worth the listen. (although i suspect most of you saw it live)

FTTN over say HFC sounds fine to me, however FTTN over current *bad*
telstra copper isn't cool.



On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Tim Sheahan <sheahant at mytelecom.com.au>
wrote:

>  I was interested in Simon Hackett's blog/talk earlier in the year, where
> he mentioned that they can still do interesting things on a shared medium
> such as HFC, as long as they deploy more fiber to feed smaller segments.
>
> http://simonhackett.com/2014/09/06/rebooting-the-nbn/
>
> He acknowledged fiber would be best, then went on to point out that the
> pollies aren't paying for fiber any more, which I think is a fair if
> regrettable point.
>
> I'd be happy enough for NBN to drop their service onto the co-ax into my
> lounge room, if I had to share it with a limited number of houses for a
> clear step up in performance, compared with the ADSL or Telstra HFC that's
> available where I live. Now, lets just see it happen.
>
> No rush either, tomorrow or next week would be soon enough.
>
>  - Tim
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> On 4/12/2014 2:53 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker wrote:
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> http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/we-want-to-accelerate-nbn-rollout-bill-morrow-20141204-1202ak.html
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> I thought most (a lot) US cable companies were moving towards fibre,
> upgrading from cable to fibre.
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> Plus isn’t Cable a shared medium so a segment (not sure how big a segment
> is) can be congested by a small group of people ?
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> Alex
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