http://sortius-is-a-geek.com/?p=3013
> Twitter was abuzz with "NBN out of date" tweets saying that "5G was here" & > lauding the 1Gbps speeds (over 2km mind you) as an "fibre killer". Sadly, > these people were wrong. The oversimplification by many news outlets to > describe the new interface as 5G was wrong. Not just a little wrong, but > completely wrong. .... > If we look at the BT's deployment, even Sydney (~2000/km²) or Melbourne's > (~1500/km²) population density doesn't compare to the top 136 cities in the > UK, with the top 120 being more than double that of Melbourne. ..... > Looking at Deutsche Telekom we can see similar, albeit less stark, contrasts > between Australia & Germany: higher population densities, low attenuation > copper, & a network that has already had heavy investment over the last > decade. Something interesting to note is that when DT deployed their FTTN > network to 10 million customers (just 2 million more than the Coalition's > plan intends to connect), they needed to build 330 000 nodes. Yes, that's 5x > the number Turnbull intends in a country where the urban population density > is more than double that of Australia. The reason for doing so was to keep > loops short enough to support 25Mbps services, as Turnbull wants to do. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
