[LINK] Telstra - taking its ball and going home.

[Roger Clarke]

At 18:45 +1000 8/8/06, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>  ...  what exactly is so wrong with the HFC network, except for the 
>fact that it gets a bad press as not being FTTH?

zillion-to-one asymmetry

cf. the need for 'relative bandwidth symmetry'
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/NetN4.html#RTFToC8

(If some of the expression seems quaint, you need to understand that 
that text was written 47 web-years ago).

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