[AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW

[Skeeve Stevens]

Hmmm,

Someone just pointed out to me that is is likely going to be FTTB... then
VDSL I assume?

Why the hell overbuild a fully functional HFC network?  Seems crazy to me.




...Skeeve


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On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Jonathan Thorpe <jthorpe at conexim.com.au>
wrote:

> Skeeve,
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> Aside from direct information from nbn™ which seems to be hard to come by,
> http://www.mynbn.info/ collates most publicly available information to
> provide some sense of what activity is happening where.
>
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> I’ve noticed a lot of existing developments around Glebe/Ultimo/CBD  being
> classified as “High Value Builds”, likely in response to TPG’s aggressive
> push to install FTTB wherever it can.
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> nbn’s product roadmap (
> http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco/documents/Integrated-Product-Roadmap.pdf)
> indicates that they don’t have HFC being part of an official product
> release until Q2 2016, so you will almost certainly be left with FTTN.
>
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> It’s starting to look like there’s a lot of overbuilding going on to
> secure these “high value” buildings whereas there are areas that are far
> down the 3 year plan that currently have nothing.
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>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Skeeve
> Stevens
> *Sent:* Friday, 30 October 2015 12:29 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* [AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW
>
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>
> Hi all,
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> I'm confused.
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> I live in a complex in Glebe which big and takes an entire block (over 100
> units).  We have 3 addresses on 3 sides of the block.
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> The complex has Telstra Bigpond Cable and it has worked fine for the 2
> years we've been here.
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> I've heard from the building manager that NBN is about to be installed...
> and should be ready in a couple of weeks.
>
>
>
> *blink* ?
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> Firstly, the new rollout from NBN says Glebe area is 2018, but also says
> it is HFC.
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> I assuming they aren't doing FTTH... the internal cabling costs on that in
> this place would be insane.... so I assume it is HFC upgrades of some
> kind?  I didn't think that NBNCo was actually upgrading anything in the
> complexes?
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> Also, does anyone know if there is someone I can talk to at NBN about
> their rollout addressing... as while 2 of our address sides come up in the
> NBN lookup tool as coming soon, one of them doesn't... but it is all the
> same infrastructure.
>
>
>
> ...Skeeve
>
>
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>
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