[LINK] FTTN in Canberra

Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxious at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 15:25:45 AEDT 2015


Notably you are able to achieve higher speeds than on the TransACT
offerings (60 vs. 80 mbit cap) at lower total monthly prices but the
auxiliary services of TV and Telephone now must come over the internet
(a VoIP ATA is in the provided Huawei HG658 VDSL2 modem for use with a
traditional telephone).

There is also some infrastructure renewal to achieve even higher
speeds of 100Mbit+ as being seen in a trial
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2389961&p=66#r1312
... at the expense of some other efficiencies
https://delimiter.com.au/2015/10/23/tpgiinet-shut-down-transacts-canberra-call-centre/

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Tom Worthington
<tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> Alexandra Back at the Canberra Times newspaper ask about the new VDSL2
> iiNet is offering in Canberra. This turned out to be a modem upgrade of
> the more than decade old Transact system. It is similar to the FTTN
> system proposed for the NBN by the current government, but the Canberra
> system is superior as the copper cable used was laid especially for FTTN
> and is not old telephone cable. Of course it is not as good as Fiber to
> the Premises (FTTP).
>
> See:
>
> * "iiNet offering VDSL2 in Canberra to compete with NBN", by Alexandra
> Back, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times, December 29, 2015:
> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/canberra-competitor-to-give-nbn-a-run-for-its-money-20151218-glqvyu.html
>
> * Mt First Impressions of Transact, 1 May 2002:
> http://www.tomw.net.au/links/20020501.html
>
> * This is not the only use of VDSL2 in Australia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_VDSL_and_VDSL2_deployments#Oceania
>
>
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