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No. This is for fiber to the premise, not fiber to the node. It would have solved some of the problems with the old NBN model, especially in highrise buildings
by monochr 12y ago
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This is for fiber to the premise, not fiber to the node. It would have solved some of the problems with the old NBN model, especially in highrise buildings in the city.
I'm simply for this by the fact the government has been progressively removing all technical references about the NBN from every government website. During their election they promised a climate controlled box every 500 meters or so. This was ridiculed as completely out of the question due to cost and maintenance and has been quietly dropped since then. So even at the best case scenario the distance will be x20 as long as in these trials. And as the researchers noted: "giving broadband speeds up to 500 Mbps over a distance of 100 meters. In contrast, XG-FAST uses an increased frequency range up to 500 MHz to achieve higher speeds but over shorter distances."
- robotresearcher 12y ago> No. This is for fiber to the premise, ... It's about squeezing more out of the existing copper to the premise, while we wait for fibre to arrive.
- monochr 12y agoNo. It's about nit needing to rip out whole buildings to put in fiber to the plug. They say it in the article.
- robotresearcher 12y agoYou don't rip out the building because you're using the existing copper that runs inside the building. Maybe you'd run fibre from the junction box to the building then, or maybe you'd just use the existing copper on that route too.
- monochr 12y agoPlease read the article. This technology is only viable for copper wires shorter than 30m. The previous spec at 1/10 speed was for wire shorter than 100m.
- robotresearcher 12y agoQuoth the article: "a major business benefit in locations where it is not physically, economically or aesthetically viable to lay new fiber cables all the way into residences. Instead, fiber can be brought to the curbside, wall or basement of a building and the existing copper network used for the final few meters." I interpreted "the premise" as the building, but perhaps the conventional interpretation is the entire grounds. Either way, this is certainly about squeezing more out of the existing copper.
- monochr 12y agoExisting copper inside the building. It is absolutely useless for the 1km+ distance to exchanges common in cities and 10km+ common in rural settings.