[AusNOG] "The NBN" will run on copper for *ever*

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

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>To: Phil Pierotti <Phil.Pierotti at day3.com.au> 
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>So real world scenarios will see the standard shitty average of around 7mbps...which is deemed acceptable as its > 1.5mbps.

Can you provide some evidence of this future FTTN 'standard shitty average of around 7mbps'?


The following presentation shows that a lot of people are already getting close to or more than 7Mbps from ADSL1/2/2+. VDSL2/2+ should easily provide greater than that on shorter FTTN lead-ins.


http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/videos/atnac08/ATNAC08-Simon_Hackett-high.mp4


The ALU announcement is quite significant in the context of using Fibre to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) instead of FTTN:

"The FTTdp technology option for the Australian National Broadband Network"

http://telsoc.org/ajtde/2014-03-v2-n1/a26


"Fibre to the Distribution Point (FTTdp) is a broadband access network technology that encompasses fibre to the street lead-in pit at the front fence, with an average copper lead-in length of 30m."