Theres no thread on this, Alice Springs, who cares.
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Quote from "Simon Hackett": Until we have backhaul to our own DSLAM's there, local routing is irrelevant as there is no way to extract DSLAM data on the existing Telstra port services in the NT – Telstra force it all back to Adelaide.We are certainly looking at the merits of putting in a local session termination router in Darwin once the RBBP backhaul has been lit up and things are working in general to the DSLAM sites we're deploying there right now. So the point is that local termination might not happen the day the DSLAM's turn on, but we do see the merits of it and we're chewing on that right now. Meantime, its really not a 'shame' that we aren't doing something that (until the RBBP backhaul is installed and running) is technically meaningless. Obviously even with local termination on Agile DSLAM port services in the Darwin area, the outcome will not be significantly different for customers in the short term, with the specific exception of customer-to-customer traffic between customers on Agile DSLAM ports. And all the Telstra port based DSL traffic will obviously keep emerging in Adelaide because Telstra have no apparent plans to do anything except to treat Darwin area exchanges as the technical equivalent of (very) long distance Adelaide suburbs. Whether our doing this might help to lead to other providers doing local termination in the NT is obviously up to them – we'd be all for it, but its up to other providers to decide whether to use the new backhaul to put their own DSLAMSs in. Other than iiNet, who have a few of their DSLAM deployments there, I'm not sure many (or any?) other provider has elected to make a local DSLAM investment in the NT at all, thus far. Regards, Simon
maybe, maybe, maybe local routing, in the maybe possible future.
Fiber does not magically just get turned on once the end to end connections have been terminated and installed. There is days of testing each fiber and labeling each one from each end point.
For the connection between Darwin and Brisbane / Townsville there would be hundereds of individual testing and labeling of a cable that size. It is not a simple task to undertake and takes time and testing before it then can be sold at any level to any wholesale customer.
Quote from Lothar;403540: Fiber does not magically just get turned on once the end to end connections have been terminated and installed. There is days of testing each fiber and labeling each one from each end point.
For the connection between Darwin and Brisbane / Townsville there would be hundereds of individual testing and labeling of a cable that size. It is not a simple task to undertake and takes time and testing before it then can be sold at any level to any wholesale customer.
I'm going to assume you're aiming this at me. In which case: you're not educating me on anything, you're just flapping gums with irrelevant information.