Wow, you focussed on a less relevant part of the document like a pro!  I guess 
we’ll have to skip the part where the Liberals are spending just as much on the 
NBN as Labor but getting a significantly inferior system that lacks value for 
money. And they call themselves economic managers? 

19) The UK will be frozen out of Cloud Computing without a bandwidth everywhere

20) Bandwidths like 1Gbit/s might look huge today but they will look puny 
tomorrow

21) In my lifetime fast was: 90, 110, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 9600, 18,200, 
56,000, 64,000, 365 bit/s…,1, 2, 10, 20, 100, 200, 1000Mbit/s……why would anyone 
think this progression would stop or even slow down ??

I don’t have a problem with the government focussing on the metropolitan areas 
first before dealing with the country, but to give us Fibre to the Node in the 
city? As Cochrane says,  

9) More equipment and interface types than necessary is really bad engineering

14) FTTH provides a future proofing, ease of operation, lowest cost and the 
ultimate flexibility

15) FTTC/K et all with electronics between switch and customer just adds 
unreliability operating costs

A lot of countries are planning 10Gbps networks, and the Liberals are promising 
25Mbps. 10Gbps is 400 times as fast as the Liberals promised speed, and 10 
times faster than Labor’s.

 

 

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of David Connors
Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:31 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: [OT] NBN revisited

 

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Tony Wright <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Now to my position – lest you think me some impractical academic. In my BT life 
I was employed as:

1) A digger of trenches

2) An installer of poles, cables, telephones PBXs, exchanges

3) A maintainer of PBXs, switches, repeater and radio stations

4) A network designer and planner

5) A research engineer

6) A software writer

7) A designer of test equipment

8) Systems and networks designer

9) Head of Group a then Head of Section and then Head of Division for 
Transmission Systems

10) Head of Research and then CTO

And since leaving BT life and experience has been even faster and even broader…

 

Two pages of bloviating from an ex-Telco hack that misses the point. 

 

Since 2009, BT has passed 16 million premises with FTTx.

 

Since 2009 NBN Co has "passed" 200K and a good chunk of those can't order the 
service. They've also spent 12% of the capex delivering 0.5% of the FTTP 
connections.

 

His arguments are irrational. They only way to deliver something of this size 
is to be transport agnostic, stage the delivery and don't do stupid shit like 
throwing out 3.5million perfectly good 100mbps services that exist today so you 
can buy 100mbps services that double the cost in 2020. 

 

Why the Labor Party had so much difficulty selling this we will probably never 
know.

 

The only way to sell the NBN is to ignore time and money. The electorate isn't 
that stupid. 

 

David. 

 

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