Big news from down under, Mate.
April 13, 2009
Are you paying attention inside the Beltway?
The Australian government has stepped in and is funding public-private partnerships to increase broadband in Australia.
A few snippets:
- No single private company can build a nationwide Broadband network–this has been found a fundamental conclusion.
- The new network will reach 90% of Australia by Fiber to the Premise (FTTP). Those that can not be economically reached by FTTP will be served wirelessly. (How is that for clarity and objectives America? Do you think private financial money will be interested with such clarity?)
- This won’t happen over night–it will take 8 years! What famous blogger have you heard this from before? *
- FTTP is SUPERIOR over investing in FTTN, where N = Node. Translated: Copper does not cut it, it’s not reliable and it’s not a global conduit–at least in Australia.
- The new network will minimally deliver 100x faster data rates than the present data rates. That’s 100 megabits folks!
- Australia Broadband “…lags well behind those in many other advanced nations…”
America, what don’t you understand? I ask again, with all this Federal money being bantered about for Telecom, health care, infrastructure and education: What is good for America? Let’s not put the cart before the horse! We need optical connectivity for America–nothing more, nothing less should be our standard.
- Telecom Funds–broadband needs to be defined as nothing less than 100 megabits, not a bit less.
- Health Care Funds–spend your funds getting optically connected first before buying all those EHR and imaging applications. What good is an application that goes over an inferior, slow, unreliable connection?
- Infrastructure Funds–as dumb as this may sound, if you open a road or work on a bridge, you should install multiple ducts for the future installation for fiber optics. The incremental cost is miniscule. Sorry ILECs and a few CLECs – these would be Open Access ducts! If you don’t run an open access network (fiber leases and capacity leases to other carriers) you don’t get access to the duct system!
- Education Funds–education is dripping with Federal cash–it’s for the children! The children want and need lessons delivered over High Definition video links into the classroom with content and or real time events from the best of teachers across the nation. Get optically connected first…just ask the children!
Before blowing Federal money on something that has a 2-3 year life, install the optical facilities. Optical fiber cable will last 50 years and provides unlimited bandwidth growth. Once installed, you are future-proofed!
When I die, I will have a smile on my face because I already know the fiber optic networks we have installed will out live me by decades. I will leave our wonderful planet, Earth, with my work intact and for the overall betterment of humanity.
Thoughts? Or am I a lone wolf howling into the wind?
*Me.
Written by Dave Rusin - Telecom Executive
Posted by wbrache | Filed Under Infrastructure and Bandwidth, Telecom USA, Telecom broadband, Telecom news, Telecommunications blogs, Telecommunications news, Trends + telecommunications
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As an Aussie I can safely say that it was amazing that the government here actually came to a reasonable position at the end of the day, particularly as the person responsible seems totally inept (he is the same guy that is trying to introduce censorship at the ISP).
I think our saving grace was that there was so much pressure from the public, and comments saying that FttN with download speed of 12Mbit/s (which is what was originally proposed) was already more than achievable with ADSL2+.
My advice is keep up the pressure and eventually they see sense!