[LINK] web: The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 1/09/2015 11:51 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> Can we PLEASE stop assuming that the difficulties are technical?
> They are political, and only ever were. 

Totally agree.

There is a room in the NBN offices in North Sydney.
It shows a number of different solutions.

The first is fibre to the premises. It comprises a few boxes, often 
underground and small, that do nothing but provide protection for fibre 
joints. Little or no maintenance. No electronics until you get to the 
termination point, which is in your house, apartment or business. Clean, 
simple, fast and quite independent of the technology attached to either end.

Then there are range of other solutions, all big, above ground, 
involving lots of electronics, batteries, monitoring and maintenance. As 
an engineering solution is is ugly, mad, stupid and shortsighted.

The only reason for not going totally fibre is, as Karl says, political.

And unlike changing a government, which can happen almost overnight, we 
will have to live with this monstrosity for years until it gets replaced 
with what it should have been in the first place. And at great expense 
and annoyance to many who will have to live with a substandard service.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
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