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10 April 2013
Open mind to more hybrid possibilities
Mr Turnbull said he would review NBN Co's charter, instructing it to seek to use existing fibre infrastructure such as hospital, school and utilities' networks where possible.
"We are very alert to that. At least one state government has offered their extensive fibre network for its use."
Andrew Findlay, managing director of Vertel, a company that operates hybrid fibre-microwave broadband networks on behalf of groups such as schools and health providers, told IT Pro there is much existing infrastructure that should be incorporated into the NBN, but his company had not been consulted by representatives of the NBN Co. NBN Co has previously said it was charged by the Federal Government with rolling out fibre, not canvassing existing technologies.
He said hospitals in regional health alliances in Victoria, for example, already had use of between 25 and 100 megabits per-second service, up from 2 to 8Mbps with copper and for the same price. He said various utilities also had suitable infrastructure to add to the NBN.
"Powerlink, Queensland Rail, RailCorp, Vic Track – they have extensive fibre networks – for signalling and telemetry.
"We have a measurement tool – we map the networks – contrary to public opinion, there is a lot of fibre out there already owned by government departments. There would be a very good business case to reuse and get service providers like us and others to leverage that, Mr Findlay said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/coalitions-nbn-plan-not-ideal-but-prudent-turnbull-201304...
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