[AusNOG] Pics of an NBN FTTC install

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

I suspect that’s a political not cost issue at the moment :)

> On 31 Jan 2018, at 6:59 pm, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> 
> And hopefully go straight to FTTP if there isn’t a existing copper lead-in
> in a FTTC area.  It cost basically the same to trench for copper as it
> costs to trench for fibre.
> 
> Mark
> 
>> On 1 Feb 2018, at 1:29 pm, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> FTTC is just an interim step - you still build the same GPON network but you avoid the expensive part which is the bit from the curb to the house. Over time you just start converting the drops into fibre - either because people pay you or the copper drop dies.  
>> 
>> It feels like a bit of an ugly interim step, but I think, compared to FTTN it’s much better. I suspect that NBNco will come up with a fairly standard Cu to Fibre drop replacement cost.
>> 
>> MMC
>> 
>> 
>>> On 31 Jan 2018, at 5:46 pm, Mark Tees <marktees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Looks better than the vast majority of pitts?
>>> 
>>> Looks like this https://www.netcommwireless.com/what-we-do/network-terminating-devices/fibre-distribution-point-fttdp
>>> 
>>> Still way better than VDSL over 400m of copper.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 at 05:49, Sam McLeod <ausnog at smcleod.net> wrote:
>>> Pretty disgraceful: https://i.imgur.com/BVvzinL.jpg
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Source: "The Sizzle" - https://share.thesizzle.com.au/sizzleshare/?id=4598
>>> 
>>> "Someone on Whirlpool has uploaded pics of what an NBN fibre to the curb (FTTC/FTTdp) install looks like. The best pics are deeper in the thread, of the Netcomm unit that takes the NBN fibre and splits it out to the existing copper connections that go to the homes, sitting in the pit. Apparently the fibre to copper units support G.Fast, but only offer VDSL2 for now. For those in an FTTC area, the box you get in your home that you connect your router to, looks like this, and provides power to that box in the street pit. Thanks to cwd, who posted this in The Sizzle's Slack channel afternoon!"
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