back to article NBN Co's HFC build will be DOCSIS 3.1 ready, but use 3.0 only

NBN Co has settled on its key partner for the HFC part of its network, with Arris nominated to provide cable termination and passive equipment. The deal, reported by Comms Day as being worth AU$400m, sees Arris, the company that acquired Motorola's HFC business, pip Cisco for the cable network business. Arris executives today …

  1. Dafyd Colquhoun

    Any details on UPLOAD speeds?

    100Mb/s download speeds -- whoopdie-doo! I'm sick of being subject to <1Mb/s upload speeds as this stuffs up VPN to home, video conferencing and video uploads. Time for the HFC providers to allocate more channels towards the node for the end users to use. If HFC cannot provide a minimum of 10Mb/s upload speeds then there is no way in hell it can be considered equivalent to GPON NBN.

  2. Urh

    Turnbull's brave new direction

    NBNCo: Using yesterday's solutions to tomorrow's problems.

  3. david 12 Silver badge

    Nodes?

    >Arris nominated to provide cable termination and passive equipment.

    And then the article quotes Aris on nodes: "Arris CTO Joshau Eum said the nodes for the network will be "shoebox"-sized" and "Key products used in the build will be Arris' E6000 edge router, CORWave forward path transmitters, OM4100 optical receivers"

    At the risk of being obvious, nodes and edge routers are not cable termination and passive equipment.

    And yes, you were being very foolish if you ever thought that you were ever going to get anything other than a nationalised TV service.

  4. unfknblvbl

    Power Backup?

    We need to know how NBNCo plan to allow for power outages. If they are planning to decommission the copper telephone lines and force everyone onto VOIP, then the HFC network will need power backup and there certainly isn't any on Telstra's current network.

    The FTTP network, being passive, will allow VOIP calls in power outages since NBNCO supply battery backup to residences and we can't be creating a digital divide and second class NBN citizens ...

  5. unfknblvbl

    Power outages?

    We need to know how NBNCo plan to allow for power outages. If they are planning to decommission the copper telephone lines and force everyone onto VOIP, then the HFC network will need power backup and there certainly isn't any on Telstra's current network.

    The FTTP network, being passive, will allow VOIP calls in power outages since NBNCO supply battery backup to residences and we can't be creating a digital divide and second class NBN citizens ...

  6. theniginator

    I already get

    - 100Mbps download on optus cable so looking forward to this great upgrade as we are forced over to NBN.

  7. adfh

    Be interesting to see how long it takes Turnbull's 'as good as we need' #640KRAMenoughkindafutureproof VDSL to make it to homes. I'm lucky living close to an exchange and having Annex M so I get about 18/1.4Mbps which is better than most outside of an HFC area, but compared with the rest of the world, is dating quickly!

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