[LINK] No batteries required in new broadband plan

[Glen Turner]

On 11/04/2013, at 11:19 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
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> A VAST majority of National Broadband Network subscribers will not need 
> a battery back-up solution under the Coalition's plan.

That relies on the vast majority of customers not taking a full rate VDSL service, so that the analogue POTS phone still has bandwidth to run in. The "no battery" claim and the "50Mbps" claim can't be simultaneously true.

The nodes will require power and batteries. Solar is attractive for reducing carbon footprint, but the node will still require a connection to the electrical grid as operation under stress pulls double the usual current.

Part of the attraction of FTTH is to avoid powered nodes, and my experience has been that powering street furniture is more expensive in practice than you anticipate on paper.

-glen