[LINK] NBN domestic installations

[Kim Holburn]

On 2016/Mar/03, at 10:32 PM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-link at layer10.com.au> wrote:

> On 3/03/2016 8:34 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> 
>> I have non-NBN VDSL2 through transACT.  When it goes through normal POTS copper you don't use a splitter, you just plug the VDSL2 pair straight into the modem.  I don't think VDSL2 plays nicely with normal POTS voice.  As I understand it, it doesn't play nicely with ADSL in the same node either.  
> 
> TransACT VDSL and VDSL2 was a special case.  The TransACT copper cable installed to
> the house contained four separate twisted pairs, just like a conventional Cat 5
> ethernet cable. With the older pre-standards VDSL in TransACT, the VDSL data signal
> (for data and the TV SetTopBox) were on a separate pair from the pair that carried the
> conventional POTS signal, so no splitter was required. When the older VDSL gear was
> replaced with VDSL2, I would be very surprised if they bothered to combine them - they
> are likely to still be provided on different pairs, each from different boxes in the
> TransACT network cabinets (and you've probably also still got two spare pairs!).
> 
> VDSL2 on the rest-of-Australia copper network deployed by Telstra has the POTS signal
> and VDSL2 signal superimposed on the same line pair - so a splitter is required.


I have that at home, the old Cat 5 connection and all, but at my work we have TransACT VDSL2 connections running over normal pairs.  

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