tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46540272435418055592011-12-19T14:51:25.964+08:00News and Information on Fibre to the Home in Australia.<br><br> Welcome to the Australian Fibre to the Home News Site, the only blog dedicated to the promotion of FTTH in Australia.<br><br>Its aim is to assist ICT professionals, developers and network operators to<br> gain a better understanding of the technology, services and deployment methods used in FTTH.Stephen Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03671744373168657090noreply@blogger.comBlogger3261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654027243541805559.post-22011027003184312912011-06-11T11:42:00.000+08:002011-06-11T11:42:52.997+08:00

According to an article by James Hutchinson from ITnews, NBN Co will start to trial deployment of services to new housing estates from August 8 this year. Interesting use of the term trial, because I am sure the developers are expecting full services to be available from NBN Co, at least that is what I have heard from developers. I have also been reliably informed that at the recently access

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Opticomm, Australia's leading FTTH network builder and operator has launched its new web site. The site includes a large amount of information and frequently asked questions both about Opticomm and FTTH in general. It also delivers the ability to review the Opticomm fibre connected communities and search for properties services by their networks. The new web site is http://

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Quoting from a Ministerial press release today "Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy today said reports of low customer numbers on the National Broadband Network (NBN) were misleading and ironic given the network was only launched on the mainland yesterday." Is the Minister getting a little touchy on this subject - seems so to me. Sorry Minister,

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The "bells-and-whistles" launch of NBN Co's first mainland release site in Armidale occurred yesterday, but its certainly didnt have anything on the Tasmanian launch. Back in August last year, the Tasmania launch showed off over 9 different applications and services delivered over the network built by Opticomm including: 100Mbps Internet Standard Telephone Services (not VoIP) Fax machines

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A recent article by Lucy Battersby of The Age has NBNco's Archie Wilson making some outrageous claims which I wish to counter act. 1. "A single provider would provide a more uniform outcome." Yet its expected that in brownfields there were going to be 5 or 6 constructions companies. If NBNco had documented its construction standards in suffient detail and had appropriate qualified QA staff,

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The Fibre Deployment Bill being introduced by the Federal Government could cost new home purchasers aware between $1500 - $3000. The Bill which is being reviewed by the Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network will force all new developments (larger than 100 homes) to ensure the telecommunications infrastructure deployed is fibre based - and with the legislation which was passed in March

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The National Broadband Network WAS a great policy. When it was announced in March 2007, I was on a national tour presenting on the importance of FTTH as a national infrastructure. I was quite proud to be one of the people responsible for convincing the Minister to head down the path of a National Broadband Network. However that pride has now turned to shame as we see NBNco's implementation of a

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After a series of potentially damaging articles in the media, the chief executive of NBN Co, Mike Quigley, has issued a statement admitting that he had jurisdiction of the region involved in a massive bribery scandal at Alcatel Lucent, while he was a senior executive of the company. In the statement, Mr Quigley indicates that he did not previously know he was responsible for Costa Rica, where the

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Media Release: The Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network will inquire into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Fibre Deployment) Bill 2011. The Bill will amend the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cwlth) to ensure the installation of infrastructure for fibre to the premises as part of the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) and enable NBN Co. to be the fibre provider

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The Indian Government has followed Australia, Singapore and New Zealand in deciding to build a National Broadband Network which will connect 160 million Indian households with high-speed Internet connections by 2014 - wow thats fast! According to IT & Telecom Minister Sibal "The framework for the National Broadband Plan (NBP) will be finalised by the end of this fiscal (March 31)". Back in

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Well its been a long time between posts! Its become very difficult for me to write as much as I used to on this subject considering my involvement with FTTH rollout in Australia and in particular the stage 1 rollout of NBNco in Tasmania - for which I have a leading roll.But its time that I started up again in posting information on about what is happening around Australia, although perhaps with a

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PRESS RELEASE - (Las Vegas)The first six months of 2010 show a continuous global growth of all-fiber networks, with Asia still the leading region on FTTH/B but the United States and Russia continuing to expand their fiber coverage. Eastern European countries are implementing an increasing number of fiber networks and becoming drivers of the European market."The latest ranking, announced at the

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NEC Australia’s partnership with fibre-to-the premises specialist carrier OptiComm has won the “Partnership for Growth Award” in the prestigious 2010 ACOMM Awards beating competition from Alcatel-Lucent/Telstra, Huawei/Optus and Clarity/TelstraClear. The ACOMM Awards recognise excellence in the communications industry and are granted by Communications Alliance and Communications Day. The

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Residents of Middleton Grange - an OptiComm Fibre Connected Community in South-West Sydney - are being given a glimpse into the future under a high-speed Broadband Network solution launched today. NSW Minister for Commerce Paul Lynch said up to 40 households at Parkbridge Estate will gain access to four unique applications during the trial which requires the open access functions of the high

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NBNco yeterday announced that Alcatel had been selected as the "initial strategic supplier for the Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) and Ethernet Aggregation equipment" This equipment will be used to deliver the 100Mbps services to 8 million homes across Australia. NBN claims that while the Alcatel equipment is manufactured offshore all installation and testing will occur locally and will

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UDIA South Australia has recently sent out communication to its members informing them "that Telstra Velocity has withdrawn from the market of providing fibre to the developers". The reason for this has to do with the changes in relation to the heads of agreement struct between the government and Telstra last Sunday. A proposed seminar for UDIA embers on 29th of June at Telstra house which had

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PRESS RELEASE: Senator the Hon Stephen ConroyThe Australian Government today welcomed the announcement by Telstra and NBN Co that they had entered into a Financial Heads of Agreement.This agreement paves the way for a faster, cheaper, more efficient rollout of the National Broadband Network, with faster take-up.This is an important step in the delivery of the single largest nation building

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This is an interesting round table discussion moderated by Cameron Abbot from Middletons on the topic of Fibre to the Home.Included in the discussion is Stephen Albin, CEO of the Urban Development Institude of Australia (NSW), Sam Sangster, COO of VicUrban and Phil Smith, General Manager - Carrier relations and regulatory at Opticomm.http://www.brr.com.au/event/65026?popup=trueIt raises a number

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Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy said legislation was today introduced to ensure new homes were connected with infrastructure to deliver superfast broadband.The Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Fibre Deployment) Bill 2010 provides the legislative framework for having superfast fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) infrastructure installed in

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http://www.ftthcouncil.eu/documents/studies/FTTH-Handbook-Third_Edition.pdf

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Have a look at this excellent advertisment for FTTH in New Zealand.

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Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today joined NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley for the announcement of the first five sites to receive high speed broadband on mainland Australia, as part of the National Broadband Network (NBN).Senator Conroy said the first release sites would be used to test network's design and construction methods and would provide

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This is a complex problem with many possible causes which requires a detailed explanation. But first some background on how IP works particularly in high speed networks like Opticomm’s.Many Internet applications such as HTTP and FTP use a protocol called TCP/IP. As part of its congestion control strategy TCP/IP implements a mechanism called “slow start”. This is used in conjunction with other

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While Fiber to the Home deployments continue to grow worldwide in many economies, the G-20 states lag behind. Just seven of them made it into the latest FTTH/B Ranking of the Global FTTH Councils.LISBON – 26 February 2010 – FTTH continues its triumphant success around the world. More than 6 million new subscribers were added just in the second half of 2009. South Korea, number one in the Global

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Its been some time since my last post. I thought it in appropriate to be making posts on FTTH topics considering my direct involvement with the NBN. However so many people have subscribed over the past few months and many more have asked me what is happening, that I have decided to start posting to my blog again.The blog however will be taking a different approach. With the rollout of the NBN

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The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy today opened another NEC and Opticomm Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) community at Alamanda in Victoria.Alamanda, along with other NEC enabled Opticomm Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) communities have now gone live across NSW, Victoria and South Australia. The success of the Greenfield roll out has prompted NEC

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HOUSTON - 30 September 2009 - The mission to accelerate the deployment of superfast fiber connections is making steady progress despite the global economic downturn. The number of FTTH/B subscribers grew by 15% in the first six months of 2009, with more than 5.5 million new subscribers added worldwide, according to the latest update to the global ranking of FTTH/B economies, jointly issued by the

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As expected, the Opposition has slammed the Government's moves to require Telstra to seperate into two different operating companies. Opposition broadband spokesman Nick Minchin says the Government's moves are "radical" and "risky" and will disadvantage investors.Minchin who oversaw the sale of Telstra during the Howard government era said "I think what the Government may well be doing is using

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David Thodey, Telstra's Chief Executive Officer has responded to the Government's proposed regulatory reform package in a media release today.Quoting from the release..."While we are disappointed the Government has felt it necessary to introduce this legislation, Telstra remains committed to working with the Government to find a solution that is in the best interests of the industry, the nation,

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With the recently government annoucement on the regulatory reform which includes Telstra being require to choose between being a retail operator or a network operator, the question that should be on many developers minds is where does that leave them with Velocity.Velocity is a Telstra's Fibre to the Home solution delivered by their Smart Communities group. This is very much a retail solution and

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The Rudd government has announced this morning a backage of reformed to telecommunication regulations that will pave the way for the break up of Telstra. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the reforms would address the telco's high level of integration with the aim of promoting greater competition and consumer benefits. "For years industry has been calling for fundamental and historic

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The Fibre to the Home Council is promoting a webinar regarding the installation of the ONT indoors. Event Intro Text Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT presented by Guy Swindell, Applications Engineering Manager, OFS Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT presented by Guy Swindell, Applications Engineering Manager, OFSDescriptionWhile Asian FTTH providers have deployed indoor ONT’s

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What creates FTTH success? New technologies! Creative marketing strategies! Content! Financing! Understanding regulatory issues! Best practices! It's all here at the 2009 FTTH Conference & Expo.Click here for a sneak peek at what you can expect to learn!http://www.ftthconference.com/FTTH09/public/enter.aspx

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There are now more than 2 million fibre broadband connections in Europe that go direct to the home (Fibre-To-The-Home) according to research by the FTTH Council Europe.The number of those with FTTH has increased by 18% since 2008 across Europe which shows that the broadband market has continued to grow and develop, however some of the bigger European countries such as the UK, France & Germany

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A company in South Africa has found that using a carrier pigeon to send large amounts of data is faster than using the broadband connection they have.The carrier pigeon called Winston was used after an employee of the IT company based in Durban complained about the broadband speed (broadband speed test) they had and commented that it would be faster by carrier pigeon. With this thought this was

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The IEEE Standards Board has announced the approval of an amendment to the ethernet standard (802.3) which adds a new specification for 10Gbps on point-to-multipoint passive optical networks used for FTTH rollouts like Australia's NBN.The 802.3 amendment is known as the IEEE 802.3av standard, being - quote from their web site - a "Standard for Information Technology - Telecommunications and

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Concept Economics, the consultancy that recently estimated the costs of the National Broadband Network outweighed the benefits by up to $20 billion, has gone into administration.I have had a few debates on my blog with Commsday founder Grahame Lynch who used or supported Concept Economics in his attack on the costs and benefits of the NBN. ASIC's listing of Concept Economics reveals it was placed

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Recently Total Telecom released a white paper written by Keymile entitled Ethernet Point-to-Point vs.PON: A comparison of two optical access network technologies.As you probably know, I have written quite a bit on this topic in the past trying to go beyond the religious war that has errupted over the two topologies and has increased more recently with the NBN annoucement.It is interesting to read

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Doug Cambell, the Chairman of the Tasmanian NBN Co. talks to ABC Stateline on the plans for the FTTH rollout in Tasmania.

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The government has released the submissions to government in regards to their plans to mandate FTTH in greenfields.You can find all the submissions here.

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The Urban Development Institute of Australia has made a submission to the Federal Government on plans to mandate FTTH in greenfield developments. However I am note too sure if this position is supported by a majority of developers, because the feedback I am getting is that developers are begining to understand the benefits of FTTH infrastructure and how important it is in a package of tools used

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I am growing a little tired of the various claims emerging in the industry regarding Open Access. So I have decided to write this article to explain exactly what is Open Access (as defined by the Australia Government and other international organisations) and what it is not.First where did the term originate? This is a hard question to answer as it is perhaps different within each region of the

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The National Broadband Network roll-out would cost considerably less than Government’s back-of-envelop forecast of $43 billion at no more than $27 billion, Canada-based Axia’s global chief executive Art Price has told a Senate committee.Axia, which has won government contracts to build and operate open access networks in Alberta was also one of the joint venture partners who won the right to be

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With the launch of the Chancellor estate in University Hill Victoria, Telstra have informed the developer they will not be rolling out any more infrastructure in the estate.University Hill's development's project director, MAB Corporation's Jason Woods, told iTnews that Telstra was engaged to provide a copper network to the community. Telstra rolled out copper to an office building and the first

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Stuart Corner has written about TransACTs offer of 100Mbps over their FTTH network as a commercial offering.TransACT, which operates an old Marconi VDSL and newer generation Zyxel VDSL2 services over its own network in the ACT, has been rolling out FTTH on a handful of greenfield developments since 2008 using GPON equipment. It has presently offered services to a maximum of 30Mbps downstream and

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Infonetics Research's annual PON Equipment in Asia Pacific report, which tracks EPON, GPON, and WDM-PON equipment vendors, ports, and revenue in the major markets of Asia Pacific: China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the rest of Asia Pacific as a group (including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Vietnam)."Asia Pacific is by far the most dynamic PON market in

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I have been going on for some time about the issues with Telstra Velocity estates and the restriction residents have when they move in - that is being only able to access Telstra retail services.Well it has now made it into the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network. South Australian parliamentarian and member for Fisher, Bob Such, in a brief submission to the committee

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With the recently spate of announcements by the Government on the NBN in Tasmania we can finally start to seem things happening.The Prime Minister on Saturday announced the communities of Smithton, Scottsdale and Midway Point will be the first to receive optical fibre broadband connections in the rollout of the National Broadband Network in Tasmania. It was on all the news channels that evening

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The Rudd Government announced the appointment of Mr Doug Campbell as Chair of the company to rollout and operate the National Broadband Network in Tasmania.Mr Campbell has agreed to be Chair of Tasmanian NBN Company Limited (TNBN Co), a new company which will be established and jointly owned by NBNCo and Aurora Energy.Mr Campbell brings significant telecommunications experience and expertise to

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Today, the Rudd Government announced the appointment of Mr Mike Quigley as the Executive Chairman of the company established to deliver the National Broadband Network (NBNCo).Mike Quigley is an example of an Australian executive who has reached the top of their profession globally, and is now able to bring the benefit of that experience home.Few people in the world have first-hand experience with

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The Australian and Tasmanian Governments today announced the start of the first stage of the rollout of the National Broadband Network in Tasmania with the release of an open competitive tender for fibre optic cable by Aurora Energy.The first stage of the NBN rollout will deliver wholesale-only, open access broadband network services in the second quarter of 2010, and will provide valuable

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Pipe Network's Bevan Slattery, Nextgen's Malcolm Roe, Ericsson's Tony Malligeorgos and TransACT's Gordon Dunsford discuss what the federal government's national broadband network will actually deliver.http://tv.misaustralia.com/video/7408

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Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has predicted the national broadband network (NBN) will bring hundreds of TV channels to Australia and flagged a consequential need for radical change in the media sector’s regulatory framework. Finally some-one is begining to realise the NBN is not just about fast Internet services. Hopefully this will bring the death to Foxtel's arrogant approach

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Opticomm has announced the commissioning of another 4 estates. Lochiel Park in South Australia and Alamanda, Chancellor and University Hill in Victoria are now connected to the Opticomm network with customers able to receive up to 100Mbps internet, television, telephone and PayTV services. At University Hill the network is also serving business customers with the first being connected in the

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The Government's decision on National Broadband Network has seen its far share of critics. However a recently report published by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, offers some hard facts and evidence for anyone still in doubt about the government's decision on the NBN.Whilst being US-centric it does provide some serious food for thought. Enjoy!The Need for Speed

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One of the discussions that has been occuring recently - and there have been comments on this blog - is the point of Bitstream or ULL Open access. I will provide a detail post when time permits, but there is an excellent presentation by Stefan Keller-Tuberg, chair of the Regulation and Policy Committee, FTTH Council Asia-Pacific, in which he presents aspects of "over the top" service delivery and

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I came across this nice tool on the FTTH Council (Europe) web site which demonstrates the speed of different broadband technologies.You can select the different purposes of the broadband (consumer, business, society), the type of content and then just click start.

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Just some advertisements on FTTH from around the world, both of which are excellent and really drives the point home... LebeanonKoreaHong Kong(Funny!)

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Last month I lambasted Commsday and Henry Ergas in an article for a publishing a misleading report on the cost of services to the home user in which they claimed consumers would have to pay $215/month. This was widely reported with Ergas later defending his research by quoting services from Internode at $185. Interesting that he should pick the most expensive of all Internode's services with

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Following on from a number of articles and presentations I have made about the TCO of PON v PtP, one of the points that is most relevant today is the power efficiency of the access solution.In a presentation made by Alcatel Lucent at the FTTH conference in europe this year, they support my claim that the power consumption of PtP FTTH solutions is nearly 6 times that of a PON solution.Estimate

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One of the issues being hotly debated over the Australian National Broadband Network is the digital divide that will be created by leaving out that last 10% of homes in Australia who wont be connected to the proposed Fibre to the Home network. While it has been acknowledged that it will be expensive to deploy FTTH as population density decreases - particularly in rural areas - the government has

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Just a few years ago Japan was burdened with some of the most expensive broadband on the planet. Clumsy and overpriced, these first ventures into cyberspace shaped the way the country developed its broadband infrastructure, focusing instead on a 3G mobile internet network.Seeing the country fall behind dramatically in terms of fixed Internet use the government decided to act: the end result was a

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Do a search on PtP v PON in goggle and you will find lots of information published by the point to point equipment vendors about the advantages their solution has over Passive Optical Networks (GPON or GEPON). This presentation is one of mine which was delivered by a work colleague at the recently Paul Budde FTTH round table. It raises a number of technology issues in regards to the proposed

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Media Release: 29th May 2009The Rudd Government is paving the way for new housing and business estates to receive super-fast broadband from mid-2010.“The Government wants to ensure that more new property estates are serviced by super-fast broadband,” the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy said.“Super-fast broadband will revolutionise the way we

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The decision last month by the Federal government to build the National Broadband Network using Fibre to the Home technology rather than Fibre to the Node is proving to be the right decision.Recently several other countries have also made a similar decision to Australia. United Arab EmiratesEtisalat, the UAE-based telecommunications services provider, will migrate 712,000 customers onto its

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ZTE Corporation has launched a prototype of the world's first symmetrical 10G EPON equipment at the China FTTH Summit 2009 as well as OLT equipment that supports symmetrical 10G EPON and a series of ONU products.Symmetrical 10G EPON technology is a new-generation PON technology with both upstream and downstream access rates reaching 10Gbps. It is the mainstream next-generation PON technical

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Grahame Lynch, publisher of CommsDay has recently written an article about the cost of services on the National Broadband Network would be upwards of $200 per month to make an acceptable return on investment.Engaging Concept Economics, Lynch - who in the past has opposed the investment in the NBN on Whirlpool Broadband Forums - and the analysis has made some interesting assumptions and in my

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Paul Budde, one of Australia's leading telecoms analysts writes about his views on the National Broadband Network. Paul and I agree this is the most ambitious infrastructure ever undertaken in Australia. It will also be the most ambitious broadband fibre network anywhere undertaken in the world. It wont be "look at Japan" or "look or Korea", it will be Australia being placed on a pedestal. http:/

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Rod Tucker, Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and one of the members of the Expert Group who made the recommendation to government to abandon the National Broadband Network RFP and go it along with its own Fibre to the Premises solution, writes about some of the myths being discussed around Australia on Broadband. Its an article posted on crikey that discusses points on wireless

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The Hills Industries / OptiComm joint venture company has welcomed the Government’s announcement of its proposed $43billion investment in Fibre to the Home for Australia.OptiComm General Manager of Operations Stephen Davies said “OptiComm welcomes this announcement by the government; it is an important and critical decision.”Mr Davies who has been in the telecommunications industry for 22 years

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Having now ready the details of the Government's proposal for the $43b investment in a national Fibre to the Home broadband network, in my opinion this will go down in history as one of the greatest decisions a Government has made in the past 50 years. I have always said the National Broadband Network was going to be a once in a lifetime opportunity and this country needed to grab it with both

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The Australian Government and the Tasmanian Government today announced that Tasmania will be the launch state for the Commonwealth's new super fast National Broadband Network.This new National Broadband Network will begin rolling out in Tasmania as early as July 2009, before a full national roll-out in early 2010.The Tasmanian Government, in conjunction with Aurora Energy, will construct a fibre

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As part of the Government's announcement on the National Broadband Network, developers will be mandated to reticulate all greenfield estates with Fibre to the Home from 2010.The Government has released a consultantion paper on the NBN and there is a specific section on Greenfield developments. The Government understands Fibre to the Home is the superior fixed line technology that will best

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Kevin Rudd has announced that the NBN tender process has been terminated, and that the government will go it alone on a new $43 billion broadband network using FTTP - Yes you read it right, $43 billion broadband network and FTTP!Calling it the "single largest infrastructure decision in Australia's history", Rudd said the project would employ 47,000 people and help stimulate the Australian economy

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Verizon Communications is exploring ways to use its Fios broadband service to give consumers ways to remotely control their thermostat and view their energy usage.In a article by Cnet, company engineers are now designing energy management applications to work with their FIOS serviceGoogle too is testing a home energy management application called PowerMeter, said simply getting a handle on that

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Telstra today announced plans to upgrade its Velocity fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network to peak speeds of 100Mbps - five times faster than the current 20Mbps speeds.Speaking at the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) National Congress in Brisbane, Holly Kramer, Group Managing Director - Telstra Product Management, announced to a group of property developers that the Velocity fibre

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It has been suggested by the Australian Financial Review the ANZ Banking Group is working with Acacia - now the leading bidder for the National Broadband Network - in a project finance advisory role to help scope out how Acacia could raise debt funding for the project.They go on to claim, Deutsche Bank is advising on additional funding options including vendor finance from their equipment

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I wont yet say "I told you so", but it is looking more and more like an Acacia win in the National Broadband Network. Senator Conroy let slip during Senate debate this week with a change of phrasing that it was "Labor's plan to deliver faster broadband to 100% of the population". The only bidder to have made a submission to the government which covers 100% of the population is Acacia.Luke Coleman

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The Government's $1.5 billion plan for a fibre-optic network connecting most homes and businesses to super-fast broadband has sparked debate over the merits of a spend-up to deliver high-speed internet to the suburbs.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10561187

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Melbourne, 19 March 2009 – NEC Australia today announced it has partnered with FTTH telecoms specialist OptiComm to supply core and access technology and services to enable OptiComm’s rollout of a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTH/P) broadband network to more than 50,000 new homes and businesses, across a growing number of residential and mixed business property development sites around Australia.

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CEO of Cisco - one of the leading Internet technology vendors in the world - writes about the US government stimulus package and the strategy called "100Mbit Nation".He comments on a number of area including quoting the now famous "highways were key the infrastructure of the 20th century as broadband is the key infrastructure of the 21st century". But what interested me most is his reference to

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - PMC-Sierra, Inc. the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solutions provider, today announced the availability of complete systems for symmetric 10Gbit/s IEEE 802.3av EPON, including Optical Line Terminals (OLT) and Optical Network Units (ONU). The Company will demonstrate these second-generation 10G EPON platforms in conjunction with the Optical Fiber Communication

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This is an interesting advert from KPN on the advantages of FTTH.

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In defending FTTH, one runs up against two problems: the price (it's expensive) and the speed (do we need all that?). Of course these two issues are interconnected; the higher the demand for FTTH, the lower the average price per subscriber. The more FTTH we have the greater to case to develop content that will take advantage of the speed of FTTH. Its a classic "catch 22".There has certainly been

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Benoit Felton, Yankie Group Analyst and one of our members of the Fibre Ring was recently invited to a conference in New Zealand last week called "Broadband at a Crossroads".His talk was on Open Access - particularly of FTTH - and why it makes economic sense to open up the network to competitors, but more important to ensure retailers are treated with equality by not retailing on the network

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In a rare show of unity Telecom NZ, TelstraClear and Vodafone have commissioned a joint study that is highly critical of the government's $NZ1.5b plan to deliver fibre to 75 percent of New Zealand within six years. TUANZ has branded the study as "backward-looking, negative and self serving."Stuart Corner writes about a study which was missioned from Castalia, a French company that says "For New

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The launch of Australia's first 100Mbps residential broadband service is hitting front page news on many of the technology sites.Whirlpool - Australia's premier broadband blog - has seen hundreds of posts supporting the release of the product that it is 8 times faster than the NBN and delivering true Open Access to the community.With articles also on ZDnet, APCmag, ITnews, the message is coming

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At greenfield developments around Australia, Internode is partnering with housing estate telecoms specialist OptiComm to deliver Australia's fastest commercial broadband services for retail customers.OptiComm, a Hills Industries joint venture company, specialises in providing Fibre-to-the-Home networks for new housing estates. Internode is delivering retail broadband services over the OptiComm

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Eight months after last reporting on problems in Telstra's Velocity Smart Communities I find myself again reporting about the same issues.Whirlpool is being flooded with comments like this:Lucky her, she gets Velocity. How's this though... after numerous phone calls over a couple of weeks, and being assigned a case manager, Telstra has told her that they can't connect her for months because they

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COPENHAGEN — That fiber to the home (FTTH) is broadly implemented is not news, but what services are making profits and where the future trends are is the subject of Yankee Group and FTTH Council Europe findings released in conjunction with the FTTH Council Europe Conference today.As part of the study, Yankee Group analyzed the portfolios of 20 global next-generation access service providers and

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The Greek government, mindful of the potential impact of high-speed, next-generation, broadband capabilities on national economies, has drawn up a €2.1 billion (A$4.1 billion) plan to rid the Southern European nation of its "broadband pauper" status. Presenting at the annual European Fibre to the Home Council Conference, Christos Akratopoulos, a consultant at the Greek Ministry of Transport and

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(COPENHAGEN, DENMARK) - The number of economies where fiber to the home has established a significant and growing market presence has nearly doubled over the past 18 months, according to an updated global ranking issued today by the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.The ranking, issued twice a year since 2007, was released today at the FTTH Council Europe's annual conference

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Press Release.(WASHINGTON, DC) -- Adopting tax incentives for expanding next-generation broadband networks with direct fiber connections would ensure that the economic recovery package now under consideration in Washington would create a large number of jobs and extensive economic growth, according to a study released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council. The study, prepared for the FTTH

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While the United States is busy debating whether to spend $6 or $9 billion on a new broadband stimulus package to deliver 100Mbps, and we here in Australia are debating about 12Mbps, South Korea has just decided to spend $24.6 billion on their own broadband infrastructure plan. South Korea's plan will create 120,000 jobs, with the goal of boosting residential connections to 1 Gbps broadband (FTTH

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LONDON, UK — NEC Europe has today announced that it has been selected to provide a fibre solution for the Swedish network operator, Svenska Fibernät AB, that produces ten times faster broadband than the current network. The new network will provide Swedish property owners the opportunity to offer their tenants access to high-speed broadband.Svenska Fibernät AB will immediately start to offer its

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The world’s only advanced tool for assessing the net environmental impact of FTTH networks is launched today, 11th February 2009, at the annual FTTH Council Europe conference in Copenhagen.The Sustainable FTTH Configurator allows the potential environmental benefit of actual FTTH deployments to be calculated – real world benefits from real world networks – by placing a refined and detailed

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They say a week is a long time in politics; and so too in the Australian telecommunications industry.On Monday, Don McGauchie confirmed he has formally begun the process of finding a replacement for Sol Trujilo. With the departure last year of Phil Burgers, then recently his right hand man in Greg Wynn, the time has come for the last of the three Amgios to also call it a day. Perhaps with his

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Fibre to the Home in India is now truely becoming a reality. Several Indian Telcos have already announced their plans for fibre deployment, but ATS Paradissco is already deploying.This project covers 1000 flats in Greater Noida, outside New Dehli. It's an interesting video because it points to a number of advantages that are often not presented to the public and it's also a nice promo for GPON

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Conclusions from first significant European comparative market study of its kind will be presented at FTTH Council Europe annual conference in Copenhagen (11th – 12th February).The results and full report of a groundbreaking study into the socio‐economic impact of European FTTH deployments, undertaken in conjunction with analyst firm Ovum, will be unveiled by the FTTH Council Europe at its annual

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For those interested in seeing photos of telecommunication networks, have a look at this web site. It depicts an installation of a Fibre to the Home service and all the effort they go to in making this connection. The poster says he pays just 1,022 yen (A$17.50) per month for the first year but it goes up to 6,720 yen (A$114) per month in the second year. This is a little more than I had heard of

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