'A lemon': NBN backflips, abandons plan to use Optus cables it purchased for $800 million
The National Broadband Network has dumped its plan to use Optus cables to deliver high-speed broadband less than a year after rubbishing reports the $800 million network was in a dire state and may be unusable.
But on Wednesday NBN announced it would abandon the Optus HFC rollout entirely and instead deploy a new technology, fibre-to-the-distribution-point (FTTdp), to up to 700,000 premises.
NBN abandons the Optus HFC network, will instead turn to FTTdP technology
THE company building the government’s national broadband network has decided to abandon the use of Optus’ hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network and instead run fibre optic cables to the curb of a potential 700,000 premises across the country.
The FTTdP connection relies on distribution point units (DPUs) which are about the size of a bible and get buried at the ends of driveways to allow the company to run fibre closer to the home. The technology has been in development until now and has only recently become financially viable.
