Whirlpool user and all-round nice guy Sambo9 recently publishing this stunning gallery of photos of the National Broadband Network rollout in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, and has kindly consented to let us post them on Delimiter as well. We consider this one of the best photo galleries we’ve seen of the actual NBN, as it goes into great detail about the actual NBN equipment, as well as the fibre being rolled out in the street and so on. Cheers Sambo9!
Nice one, thanks for the pictures Sambo9
that twit who disfigured a brand new FTTH cabinet should be arrested and thrown in jail.
I’ve seen a similar set of photos to this before – (or perhaps this is an extension of the same set?) – either way, nice to see…
These photos are stunning. Just think each one of those cables is capable of transferring terabytes of information, impossible on wireless. It warms my heart to see that Australia is finally pulling it’s finger out and making some real progress on this project, one that wont doom us to endure deplorable and almost unusable low upload speeds for the next hundred years. Abbott and the rest of his zoo crew must be fuming when they see pics like this.
Wireless runs off a fibre backbone… In any case bandwidth isn’t the issue with wireless, it’s the latency. Pics like this mean nothing when they can’t find anyone to build the thing anywhere near their budget, so think again before you start with the politics.
“Wireless runs off a fibre backbone”
Stating the obvious?
“In any case bandwidth isn’t the issue with wireless, it’s the latency.”
Actually it is both.
“so think again before you start with the politics.”
I’m afraid it is a bit to late for that. I’m not about to waste my time giving you a history lesson but I suggest you do a bit of research, you can start with the sale of Telstra and work your way to Mr Rabbitts infamous quotes regarding the Queensland floods a few months ago.
“Pics like this mean nothing when they can’t find anyone to build the thing anywhere near their budget”
Thanks for stopping by.
Well lah-dee-dah, resort to the personal insults when you’re fresh out of counter-arguments. It could be communcations infrastructure, fluoride in water or whether the toilet paper roll is put in the holder tongue forward or not, as long as you can jump onto the “winning side” and get that buzz of a (self proclaimed) victory it’s a job done! And all from the comfort of your computer.
“Well lah-dee-dah, resort to the personal insults when you’re fresh out of counter-arguments.”
Personal insults? where are the personal insults in my comment? do you know what constitutes a personal insult? Apparently not.
“It could be communcations infrastructure, fluoride in water or whether the toilet paper roll is put in the holder tongue forward or not, as long as you can jump onto the “winning side” and get that buzz of a (self proclaimed) victory it’s a job done! And all from the comfort of your computer.”
What are you babbling about? Are you one of those conspiracy theorists?
Geez guys, take a chill pill.
HC – You are correct, but if you are going to argue, you should at least state WHY you are right, not just that you are.
Henry – Wireless right now (at N speeds) is capable of 300mbps TOTAL. that bandwidth is shared between everybody attached. i.e. you get 4 people attached and you are looking at total theoretical speed of 75mbps each. That does not factor in interference issues, signal degradation, fluctuations in your wireless cards speeds from air changes etc. Fibre is a guaranteed bandwidth to each user, free from any of those problems, at true light speed. Its a far superior solution.
Latency is also an issue on wireless, but less so than the shared bandwidth. Satellite however, latency is the crippling issue, but those signals go to space and back!
Keep the feedback constructive guys, this is a good thing for all of us and shouldnt result in petty flame wars in the comments….
HC, history lesson? Maybe you should look at the initial Telstra sale being proposed by the Labor party before you start trying to get smart.
Raw bandwidth is not an issue on wireless, N supporting 150mbps at the current time. But in any case this doesn’t matter.
“HC, history lesson? Maybe you should look at the initial Telstra sale being proposed by the Labor party before you start trying to get smart.”
It makes no difference who proposed it the fact is it was done and now we are paying for it and we know who to thank. As for “getting smart” let me just tell you if you think you are smarter than me you are woefully mistaken. Your comments here illustrate that perfectly. These are Whirlpool class comments and I expect better from Delimiter…
“Raw bandwidth is not an issue on wireless”
Actually it is an issue.
“But in any case this doesn’t matter.”
It does.
So there are 12 fibered per coloured tube.
Does one of those single coloured tubes enter each premises?
Meaning each premises gets 12 cores for the 3 ethernet and 2 virtual copper plugs in the house?
Each coloured tube has 26 cores (or pieces strands of fibre) in it. I’m not sure how they are doing it, but a house would really only require one strand of fibre to be connected.
Each addressable premise gets three strands of fibre. One for initial use, a second for capacity if the location is subdivided in the future, and a third as a spare in case of a failure.
Just goes to show that if you filter out all the rubbish stuff in the media, you see beautiful things like this :D
Pity hardly any residence in the zone wants it, never mind as long as it looks good.
Yes we’d be much better to just do nothing and hope everything will be ok for future generations… that’s the spirit!
I’m in the zone and I WANT IT NOW. I’ve got the box on my house, when can I get it inside, who will do that, when???
My father lives at Midway Point in Tassie and has had it on for almost a year, being one of the very first.
He has the 50mbps plan and is using it to run three businesses from home.
It is a glorious thing. It is stable, it is obscenely fast, he runs four computers (one of which is a server) and I can play multi-player FPS through the XBox on his TV and it doesn’t even notice.
Anyone who doesn’t want this tech for their kids is a peanut.
It is obvious that Testra is the contractor carrying out this build, good to see that they are back into constructing communications network as they have the project management administration, qualified personnel and know how.
Now the existing Telstra underground network should be used by the NBN nationally, NBN funding could be used to upgrade it (unblock muddy and congested conduits, replace asbestos and damaged type 6, 8 and 9 pits and clean out and reconstruct concrete manholes) as there has been no serious maintenance carried out for many years. This saves having to trench and directional bore for conduit installation parallel to existing conduit network. Obviously as the redundant copper is retreived there will be abundant free conduit space for future cable hauling.
Yep Rob, that’s exactly what the NBN Telstra deal aims to accomplish.
It’s nonsensical to duplicate ANY network, and that includes pit and pipe.
“It’s nonsensical to duplicate ANY network, and that includes pit and pipe.”
So Optus and Vodafone need to pull down their wireless networks and leave Telstra to it?
@ alain. So do we have Optus, Voda, Telstra and many, many others running multiple cables to everyone’s homes, rather than an NBN?
When’s the construction work for the Brunswick Trial expected to be complete?
Brunswick started a bit later than the other mainland trial sites, and is about 6 to 8 weeks behind them. Since Armidale is going live at the moment, expect Brunswick around the end of May/start of June…
I can think of better things to spend $43 billion dollars on than a fibre network that will allow little geeks to be able to download teh warez sooo much faster than now.
How about the health system for a start?
Fricking ridiculous spending this sort of cash on something that will be out of date once it is all up and running.
Fricking ridiculous spending this sort of cash on something that will be out of date once it is all up and running.
How will it be out of date?
Well, OF COURSE it’s going to be out of date soon. I mean, just look at the iPhone, right? iPhone 3 is already out of date!
It’ll happen as soon as we start using all those things that travel faster than light. Light speed? Ha! so 20th century.
Actually that’s incorrect. A ‘medium’ type of technology does not get replaced as often as you think.
Look at copper for example, we had been using it for the last 100 years. Now we get fibre?
Do you think you can tell me what we will be using next after glass? No you can’t because if Korea can’t tell you, it’s going to be up to date in Australia for atleast the next 30 years.
Bring on the NBN!
The fibre distribution box looks a bit exposed sitting there on the edge of the footpath as well as being an obstacle to footpath users in perpetuity. As there are no electrical connections, why couldn’t it have gone into the pit.
That’d be a big pit…
Wonder how these things go with being run into by a drunk P plater…..
That’s why there is a hoop bar in front of them…I bet they fair better than the average Telstra pedestal in the same circumstances…there also appears to be no active electronics in the cabinets…if it gets knocked down, as long as the cables don’t break, it actually might not knock out services…
They appear to be not much more than a glorified FOBOT (fibre optic break out tray)…
Yeah they are rather impressive and look real solid.
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