[LINK] Telstra's plans for one small rural area.

[David Boxall]

Greetings Linkers,

I'm hoping this will lead to an exchange of interest to the list.

The response to the message below was a message on my answering 
machine: Phil Lammert asking me to phone him.  I'm not going to do 
that - this discussion belongs in the public domain.  After all, 
Australia's telecommunications infrastructure remains public property 
(despite rabid political manoeuvring).

As far as I can tell, a SCAD will bring optical fibre closer to the 
area in question.  The number of lines might increase, but the 
potential bandwidth of each line will decrease.  It looks to me like 
a solution for a past century, not the present.  There are no plans 
to bring more realistic bandwidth into the area, as far as I know.

For a little background, see 
<http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ecita_ctte/tele_network/submis
sions/sub72.doc> and 
<http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ecita_ctte/tele_network/submis
sions/sub29.htm>.

Is it sensible for Telstra to spend money providing a solution that 
will not meet current needs, let alone those of the future?  I'd 
welcome opinions.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Boxall, David 
> Sent:	Thursday, 17 October 2002 9:25
> To:	'phil.lammert@team.telstra.com';
> 'colin.gillespie@team.telstra.com'
> Subject:	SCADs
> 
> Hi Phil, Col
> 
> At our meeting in August, installation of a SCAD was proposed as
> part of the solution to network problems in the Mt View/Mt Bright/Mt
> Baker area. The submission from the Communications, Electrical and
> Plumbing Union to the Senate Environment, Communications,
> Information Technology and the Arts References Committee Inquiry
> Into the Australian Telecommunications Network
> <http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ecita_ctte/tele_network/subm
> issions/sub96.doc> indicates that the dial-up data rate performance
> of a SCAD is limited to 26 kilobits per second (kb/s).
> 
> I am achieving 28.8 kb/s on my existing line, albeit with fairly
> expensive elctronics compensating for some infrastructural
> peculiarities.  26 kb/s would constitute a degradation in service
> quality.  Am I missing something here?
> 
> Please reply by e-mail.  Your response - or not - will be
> promulgated this weekend.
> 
> David Boxall                      |  I have seen the past
> david.boxall@hunterlink.net.au    |  And it worked.
> 02 4991 2704                      |                 TJ Hooker
> 

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David Boxall                     |  The more I learn
david.boxall@hunterlink.net.au   |  The more I realise
                                 |  How little I know

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