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Originally Posted by EgoFG
It is quite likely that we will hit the life expectancy of the copper before we max it out in terms of transfer speed.
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Without even going into the short sightedness of the FTTN where over 60,000 cabinets are going to be sat outside people's homes, the power consumption of them as well as the batteries in these cabinets that will need to be replaced every 5 to 10 years, where getting fibre extended from a node to your house at $$$ will not allow the speeds that a FTTP fibre will allow, the biggest issue is the limits of the copper will be hit within 5 to 10 years.
Think how short a time ago it was that dial up was screaming at 56k and well pittied those stuck on 33-6k modems. Then ISDN was avai
Able and speeds of 128k was available. Then ADSL, and before long ADSL2+ was out. The copper in the ground is the weak link yet Telstra have managed to, by hook and by crook, keep it going. The design of the FTTN is going to mean that FTTP in those area will never happen.
It would be better to roll out fixed wireless into the area that have no broadband services now rather than drop these nodes in.