Roger wrote:
On 09/10/2013 12:34 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
................snip, the Liberal party has an even worse plan that will give little benefit over the current situation ..............snip
On this subject, The corroded copper in seaside fore shore areas was unable to cope with demand 10 years ago and still struggles . LNP do not consider corroded infrastructure in their To the Node concept. ...........snip
As a user of the fibre- to-the-home when I lived in Brunswick, I would have to say the way it was and still is sold, as ' super-speed broadband', is simultaneously: 1/ oversell: because data transfer rates were only 100Mb/s down , 20 Mb/s up; which was only about 5 x the ADSL 2+, which I had had previously. 2/ undersell: because the real advantages of fibre over copper are not specifically mentioned - corrosion resistance, water resistance, spike-voltage elimination, security........ just plain robustness ! - 'future proofed' unlimited data transfer rates; the numbers are quite mind-boggling ! see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication#cite_note-11 "2012 NEC, Corning[11] 1.05 Petabit/s 12 core fiber 52.4 km"; Fibre will still be chugging along when all our CMOS micro-processors are just a distant memory and RAM and mass storage are feeding data via a fibre-bus to the Quantum Topological Processor; so fast that all programs execute virtually instantaneously, except for the IO delays. Certainly wireless bandwidth will increase as higher carrier frequency technologies iterate up; but I just can't see the ....oops make that 1 x 10^7 times current rates, which the above figures imply; ps shouldn't this thread be on luv-talk ? regards Rohan McLeod _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main