The company charged with building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), NBN Co, yesterday said that the network will support legacy analog telephone services.
"We are developing a solution that enables legacy voice solutions to operate over the network," Lobb said. The model he showed appeared to have been gathered from Communications Alliance's public consultation discussion paper on the idea.
"The analog device ... can plug into our network terminating unit. There will be an [Analog Telephone/Terminal Adapter] ATA port that will enable that to occur," Lobb said.
This will be achieved through the use of Analogue Telephone/Terminal Adapters (ATAs) that are integrated in the Optical Network Terminator (ONT) installed at customers' premises. ATAs allow customers to connect existing telephones to the VoIP service running over NBN,
