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Aussie National Broadband Network Will Be Gigabit

Posted by timothy on from the and-with-filtering-much-less-clogged dept.

schmidty-au writes "NBN Co, the Australian Government company established to build Australia's national fibre-optic broadband network, announced today that, instead of the previously announced 100 Mbps network, it will provide 1 Gbps, within the existing AU$43 billion budget. Meanwhile, the Australian opposition, which has announced that it will scrap the network if it wins the 21 August election, and instead provide incentives to the private sector to improve the existing copper network, and to install wireless broadband (with promised peak speeds of 12 Mbps), does not understand or believe that this would be possible. The man who wants to be Australia's next Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, said today 'This idea that "hey presto" we are suddenly going to get 10 times the speed from something that isn't even built yet I find utterly implausible.'"

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  1. Re:Somebody Tell Tony Abbott about Moore's Law by c0lo · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, he won't understand: according to him, he's not Bill Gates

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  2. Re:Somebody Tell Tony Abbott about Moore's Law by loki_tiwaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    i don't know how it wasn't obvious it could go to gigabit with very little tinkering. it's OPTICAL right?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication#Bandwidth-distance_product

    Through a combination of advances in dispersion management, wavelength-division multiplexing, and optical amplifiers, modern-day optical fibers can carry information at around 14 Terabits per second over 160 kilometers of fiber [4]. Engineers are always looking at current limitations in order to improve fiber-optic communication, and several of these restrictions are currently being researched

    14 terabits over 160km? does tony abbot's advisors do any research? presently, we have a copper network that can manage at best 24mbit at a max distance of 4km, at best. the NBN is an *optical* network, and is likely to be dispersed at network segments of less than 100km per run. lol. do i really need to point out the stupidity of saying it can't be gigabit? do i also need to point out the stupidity of saying a 100mbit network is not gonna be a piece of cake to roll out with optical in australian metro areas? what a retard.

    anyway, i'm voting for the sex party. you can bet they are all on for the NBN. super HD pr0n here we come :)