From: "Russell Coker" <[email protected]> > http://tinyurl.com/mpo6vft > > While I don't think much of the way the NBN has been designed, the Liberal > party has an even worse plan that will give little benefit over the current > situation and most of the costs of the NBN. The above URL has a change.org > petition for them to reconsider this.
I think one of the major drawbacks of a fibre to the node network is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Network#Fibre_to_the_premises_2 Mike Quigley, CEO of NBN Co, said one of the advantages of a GPON network is the distribution hub requires no electronics. He used an example in the United States where a hub was "under water and full of mud" and it continued to function while the fire department used a high pressure hose to clean it.[5] Without electronics, the distribution hub does not require a power supply, nor a battery for power outages. In a GPON network only the local exchanges housing the fibre access nodes and the equipment on premises require a power supply. ------------------------ If Turnbull has his way, it means: hubs with electronics (optical to fibre converters) close to the house The converters need power, so it adds additional power lines and other infrastructure, and a need to shelter the electronics against every kind of weather. This will in fact increase the costs of the NBN while decreasing bandwidth and reliability. The savings argument is a dud. Recently I read a print of an IEEE paper which is coming to the same result. (sorry, cannot find a reference anymore) Only politicians without any knowledge could really argue in favour of fibre to the node in dominantly suburban Australia. Regards Peter _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
