[AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW

[Jonathan Thorpe]

Crazy? Yep - and that might not be the half of it.

Unlike FTTP, there appears to be no provision for native (equivalent to Uni-V) voice on FTTB/FTTN (and on the impending HFC) once the copper back to the exchange is removed.

In the mad rush to deploy FTTB/FTTN everywhere as quickly as possible, it appears to me that there is little assessment of what existing assets are in place and how people will transition both Internet and voice services.

Anyone have any insight into how this will be achieved? The equivalent of embedded ATAs in the VDSL2 MSAN?

Cheers,
Jonathan

From: Skeeve Stevens [mailto:skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com]
Sent: Friday, 30 October 2015 1:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW

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.




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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cheers,
Jonathan

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Sent: Friday, 30 October 2015 12:29 PM
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Subject: [AusNOG] NBN Rollout Confusion in Glebe NSW

Hi all,

I'm confused.

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.

The complex has Telstra Bigpond Cable and it has worked fine for the 2 years we've been here.

I've heard from the building manager that NBN is about to be installed... and should be ready in a couple of weeks.

*blink* ?

Firstly, the new rollout from NBN says Glebe area is 2018, but also says it is HFC.

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?

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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