NBN Co has a demonstration room at North Sydney where they show examples of the original design and the new designs. The original fibre all the way is clean, neat, simple, junction boxes intended to be underground, and has a terminal box in your house with an optional battery.
The new designs are humungous cabinets (to protect from people and vehicles colliding with them), fully weather proof (they will be out in the open), full of electronics, batteries and other engineering silliness as predicted by Frank, below. From an engineering perspective it's stupid, shortsighted and, as frank says, will require an expensive upgrade to what it should have been in the first place. And the people who are responsible for this debacle are going to be involved in the Digital Transformation Office? I shudder to think what they will come up with. On 25-Jan-15 11:19 AM, Frank O'Connor wrote: > Mmmm, > > Makes just about as much technical sense as the MTM design does. > > I can see the design meeting now: "OK, we need to design a multi-technology > rather than single technology network with as many possible points of failure > as possible. 60-80,000 possible points of failure ... lets call them ‘nodes’ > … would be great for a start … the rest we can make up from the copper bits > that fail with monotonous regularity even now. Under no circumstances do we > test the design in real world conditions. It’s got to be maintenance and > repair intensive, and to connect to a last yard which will make its > performance comparable with the network it is replacing. After all, our > Estimates people are quite sure that Australians will need no more than 15Mbs > in 10 years time. The client end of the network must have comparatively > humungous power requirements, and huge copper replacement costs built in. The > cost of upgrading it to a serious 21st century network has be at least twice > the build cost, and the build cost for the already obsolete network has to be > so astronomical that everybody at this table will be remembered as White > Elephant Creators Extroadinaire. Oh, and no matter what happens … we don’t > listen to network experts, we don’t monitor the far more scalable, powerful > and capable networks that have already been installed overseas, or are in the > process of being installed, and we all spout phrases like ‘World’s Best > Practice’ any time we are questioned about it. Our leader, Mr Broadband, has > spoken." > > Just my 2 cents worth … > --- >> On 25 Jan 2015, at 10:54 am, Jan Whitaker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8JtliHCEAEARv0.jpg >> >> >> Jan >> >> >> "Lost Anchors" - Now available on Amazon in both print and Kindle versions. >> Print: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Anchors-J-Kirsten/dp/1502541556/ >> Ebook : <http://mybook.to/lostanchors>myBook.to/lostanchors >> >> >> Melbourne, Victoria, Australia >> [email protected] >> Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker >> Blog: www.janwhitaker.com >> >> <https://www.amazon.com/author/jlwhitaker>JL Whitaker >> "On A Life's Edge" - >> US Amazon print and digital http://viewBook.at/OALEdge >> Apple iTunes: >> https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/on-a-lifes-edge/id893736824?mt=11 >> >> Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you >> fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. >> ~Margaret Atwood, writer >> >> _ __________________ _ >> _______________________________________________ >> Link mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4273/8993 - Release Date: 01/24/15 -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email: [email protected] web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
