[LINK] NBN is FTTH

[Marghanita da Cruz]

grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Eric Scheid wrote:
> 
>> On 7/4/09 12:44 PM, "Tom Worthington" <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>> However, developments with broadband technology,
>>> particularly wireless broadband, may make the
>>> system obsolete before it is built. This may save
>>> the government from embarrassment by allowing the
>>> new technology to meet many of the stated goals,
>>> without the planned system ever being built.
>> I'm seeing tweets to the effect that it being FTTH (vs FTTN) means the speed
>> can be increased very easily just by upgrading the end boxes. Laying fibre
>> is expensive, upgrading boxes is trivial, or so I hear.
>>
>> Comments?
> 
> Digging and securing trenches is difficult.    I reckon once 
> the trenches are dug, a surplus of Dark Fibre should be installed 
> which  can be aggregated upon regardless of future improvements in
> fibre tech.   And if the Dark Fibre is ultimately never used, the trenches 
> should be constructed in such a way as to allow the whole lot to be pulled 
> and recabled elegantly.
> 

Last year I watched a building being pulled down in Canberra - first they pulle 
out all the cabling. I guess it's was "futureproofed". Wonder if the cabling was 
ever used and justified the initial expenditure. I recall lots of these types of 
discussions in the mid 80s.

Foxtel seems to have finally stopped writing to me about connecting to the cable 
in my street!

M
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