On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 17:13, Troy Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > There are options for cost effective smaller 10g fanless switches that are > perfect for this situation.... > > Ones coming to my place in May... >
I was using a Baby Brocade (ICX 6450 I think it was) in a previous job that would have been ideal in such a circumstance... > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, 7:02 pm Tony Wicks, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >Sorry from uneducated understanding but how practical would have fibre >> to the home end-to-end across the country really been? I'm sure this is >> something Bevan might understand with his experience truck rolling fibre >> installs. But surely backhoe->ing the whole country is a nice idea in >> theory but surely this would have never scaled/taken a long time/cost a lot >> of money? >> >> >> Actually glance about 2000km to the East and you will se how practical >> and successfully it can be done. In the FTTH rollout in NZ is only a few >> years from completion, it now moving down to the towns of 2000 houses size >> (yes a house in a tiny little town can get gigabit FTTH). Its pretty simple >> really, where power is overhead so is the fibre. I have a nice 1G/0.5G >> service at home (retail about $90AU/mth) and 2G/2G &4G/4G are rolling out >> by mid year. If there is sufficient will and force removing companies >> trying to clip the ticket on the way by then its very practical. The really >> funny thing is a significant amount of the dwelling >> penetration/installation is actually being done by an Australian contract >> company (visionstream). Cities in NZ are built pretty much the same way as >> in Australia, the whole its too hard to do all the house penetrations has >> comprehensively been proved to be absolute rubbish (the excuse of Australia >> being bigger and harder is bolloks, the bulk of the cost is in the >> penetration and this is almost identical). The difference between the way >> it’s been successfully done in NZ and not in Australia is the Government >> plaid hardball with Telecom NZ (power companies got the contracts in >> several areas) and they split into two companies (Chorus, the lines company >> and Spark the retail service provider). In Australia the government did >> nothing that might upset Telstra shareholder value, and that’s how you get >> NBN. >> >> >> >> Hmm, do I upgrade my home connection to 4G, the problem is my 10G switch >> is pretty noisy and I don’t think the missus would like it running all the >> time…. What an issue to grapple with… >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >
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