On 23/02/16 14:06, David Boxall wrote: > ... go back to the beginning and start over ...
Our governments keep flipping between FTTN and FTTH. Perhaps NBN Co should install Composite Fiber/Copper Cable, to accommodate both. ;-) Rod Tucker's info-graphic for The Conversation envisages a typical Australian home in 2020 having a tablet computer, a laptop, four smartphones and three TVs, all in use simultaneously: https://theconversation.com/infographic-how-fast-is-the-nbn-54392 However, that works out to two hand hand-held devices and one and a half TVs per person, all streaming content at the same time. Keep in mind the average household had only 2.6 people in 2011 and is getting smaller: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/3236.0Main%20Features42011%20to%202036?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=3236.0&issue=2011%20to%202036&num=&view= However, how much data you can get at home is of decreasing importance. It seems more likely that the priority for the average citizen will be data on the mobile device they carry with them. Recently an acquaintance ordered ADSL for their apartment. Only when the modem arrived did they discover there was no phone socket in the apartment. They had not noticed the absence of a phone in the several months they had been living there, as they routinely use their mobile. They sent the ADSL modem back and got a wireless one: problem solved. Last century, if you had projected how many phones a home would have in 2015, the answer would likely have been "a lot". Such a question now looks irrelevant, as: people have their own phones. Similarly, I suggest projections of the amount of bandwidth for the "home" of 2025 is largely irrelevant. Dithering around with the NBN might turn out to have been a master stroke by Australian Governments. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University http://people.cecs.anu.edu.au/user/3890 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4799-8464 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
