FttDP – What and Where
see article: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/gadgets-on-the-go/nbn-trials-faster-fttdp-but-malcolm-turnbull-wont-kill-fttn-20160321-gnn0ty.html NBNCo is releasing information about success in trials of a relatively new type of communication prouduct, being dubbed Fibre to the Distribution Point. Well in technical speak it’s actually G.Fast, I wrote about it in October last year. This open presentation gives you a good illustration of what it is. It will... View Article
NBNCo is releasing information about success in trials of a relatively new type of communication prouduct, being dubbed Fibre to the Distribution Point.
Well in technical speak it’s actually G.Fast, I wrote about it in October last year. This open presentation gives you a good illustration of what it is.
It will enable speeds of up to 1000 mbps to homes (conservatively expect 200mbps) and with TDD enables variable down/up speed ratios. ISPs are already finding that 100mbps is too fast for most residents, so 200-1000 mbps will certainly future proof for quite some time. After which time FTTP variants, skinny fibre, pCell, 5G and many more economical as well as mobile options will be available. Technology moves so fast.
NBN CEO Bill Morrow says:
Fibre-to-the-distribution-point is a great tool to help us reach those places where our other options just don’t stack up, but it’s not designed to push aside fibre-to-the-node
Which sounds reasonable. They can take better infrastructure further out of the suburbs. But it does concern me not to see any substantial details about FTTN released yet. It would be great if technical commentators could sink their teeth into some real-world SNR and attenuation rates. Maximums, Minimums, Mean, Mode and Median. If such information was better than expected, it would be readily available one would think. I am still hopeful, but not to a fault.
In another report from News.com.au he says:
So that gives us the head room by simply changing the electronics in the cabinet and the modern in your house, and that’s far cheaper than digging up and trenching down the street or the side of the house
Which strengthens my convictions about the huge cost of digging up driveways and sometimes even finding asbestos along the way as a result. They see the data, information and prices, and putting aside politics Mr Morrow is tasked with turning a profit, as promised even by Labour in 2007. So a technology mix is the only way to do so. Fibre to the Home is too costly because it digs up driveways.
It’s a shame that mainstream media is fixated on FTTP. Almost every story I read appears to me as either ignorance of technology and economics or cheerleading for Labour. Both are unhealthy in a technology debate.
They could be talking about the future, such as Google Loon, Internet.Org, 5G, pCell and on and on. Well at least you can find that information somewhere if you look hard enough.
Hint: If you feel like vomiting at the sound of a new technology because it isn’t FTTP; you have a problem. You’re addicted to fibre, and can’t kick the habit. Maybe that’s the age you get fashion frozen, with the same wardrobe for the rest of your life.