[LINK] Turnbull's NBN

Paul Brooks pbrooks at layer10.com.au
Sat Apr 13 20:11:59 AEST 2013


Given Geof Haydon used to be a regional VP executive and presenter for Alcatel-Lucent until last year, and knows all about vectored VDSL2 and ALUs product line, this is very significant comment from Geof.



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Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

>At 07:08 PM 10/04/2013, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
>>The second when I was accused of being a socialist (so what) for 
>>supporting the Govt's
>>"white elephant".  My response was if so, that the turnbull nodes 
>>were a dead whale.
>>On every street corner....
>
>Sort of picked up in the Age today:
>http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/building-todays-tech-tomorrow-20130412-2hqt0.html
>
>Cost of ownership raises its head again, oh, and life cycle.
>
>"
>CSIRO's Heydon says fibre-to-the-node requires much more electronics 
>in more places than fibre-to-the-home, and therefore ''the cost of 
>maintaining and operating those cabinets out in the street is very high''.
>
>While he does not want to comment on the politics, he says upgrading 
>from node to home down the track may be prohibitively expensive, as 
>''in many cases those nodes [cabinets] will become irrelevant when 
>the copper's not there any more''. The final cost of both plans 
>remains up in the air, but you don't have to be a ''tech head'' to 
>see that the high maintenance and upgrade costs in the Coalition plan 
>would bridge some of the expense gap between the two policies.
>"
>
>So the sunk cost of the 'high-electronics-level' cabinets will be an 
>excuse not to invest in the next step once it's needed. Dead whales indeed!
>
>The more this Turkey-Turnbull policy is analysed, the worse it looks.
>
>Jan
>
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