NBN rollout starts in Belconnen

You need to understand how a project of this magnitude is managed and how the fibre rollout is actually implemented.

Most of gungahlin is now done and they are connecting up the residential premises as we speak. this work will be laying the fibre through the pits and ducts etc and it was announced shortly after gungahlin. There are 2 Points of interconnect for Canberra region, one in Queanbeyan which has also started work. Generally work will spread outwards from these points, but Gungahlin was a special case that needed attention first.

Hopefully Canberra will just complete as a FTTP rollout post september 2013 as alot of work will have started and to stop will be a pain in the neck.

The map for those interested…
http://www.nbnco.com.au/when-do-i-get-it/rollout-map.html

montana said :

how about concentrate on getting all of Gungahlin area NBN first?

im still waiting? (Franklin)

Because starting work in other areas of Canberra doesn’t affect the work being done in Gungahlin at all? There are several phases of work that need to be done to build the NBN, and the work at the beginning doesn’t affect installation in Gungahlin at all.

Depending on where abouts in Franklin you are, you may also be on the TransACT fibre network. If you are, then your connection is only delayed by legal stuff around the NBN buying the network off TransACT.

how about concentrate on getting all of Gungahlin area NBN first?

im still waiting? (Franklin)

buzz819 said :

What I want to know is, why do I get my feed off the Crace exchange, that already has the NBN, there is fibre optics in my suburb, yet the NBN is not available till next year? Strange…

That’s not how the NBN works. The crace exchange does not “have the NBN”.
The NBN works off of a different architecture than ADSL. You won’t connect back through crace most likely with the NBN, you’ll locally connect to a FAN (Fiber Access Node) which serves 64 or 128 people (I’m not sure off the top of my head). That FAN will connect back to a FDH to an aggregation node. That’s bascially an exchange, which then points back to the POI for the region, but won’t necessarily be in the same place as your excahnge is now.

You can see that there’s a lot of “hops” between you and the “central point”.

And what “fibre optics” are available in your suburb? From that I’d assume that you’re in Casey stage 1, as stages 2 and 3 have transact FTTH?

If so, the delay is likely the purchasing of Transact’s FTTH. You’ll connect through the rest of casey, and that can’t happen while NBN doesn’t own it.

promises, promises….. just deliver it will you

arescarti42 said :

Seems like an odd choice to me.

I would’ve thought those areas would be pretty well serviced already by ADSL2+ from the Belconnen exchange.

Surely the people out in the new suburbs of West Belconnen on RIMs miles from the exchange should get it first.

West Belconnen is a different Fiber Servicing Area to Belconnen. West Belconnen is part of the Scullin FSA, and it’s due to start in August. This announcement today is which areas in the Belconnen FSA will begin construction first, and come August there’ll be a similar announcement for which areas of the Scullin will start first. So West Belconnen may still be not that far off.

Jungle Jim said :

Also, is this roll out in spite of the announcement that NBN work has been halted in Canberra?

That announcement was pretty misleading. ‘The NBN’ was never halted – there’s a whole lot of design and planning work, and connections to houses, that have zero issues with asbestos. The only work that was halted was Telstra doing work on the pits that the NBN are going to use when they connect up suburbs. It could definitely have an impact on timelines, but there’s a stack of work that NBNco have to do before any fibre is laid in the ground.

mtrax said :

so is this going to over build the TransACT network in these suburbs?

It’ll overbuild the TransACT VDSL network. The TransACT Fibre network (which only ever went to the new suburbs in Gungahlin) will be bought by the NBN and they’ll operate them, so no overbuilding there.

so is this going to over build the TransACT network in these suburbs?

What I want to know is, why do I get my feed off the Crace exchange, that already has the NBN, there is fibre optics in my suburb, yet the NBN is not available till next year? Strange…

arescarti42 said :

Surely the people out in the new suburbs of West Belconnen on RIMs miles from the exchange should get it first.

I’m not sure, but I don’t think the roll out has ever been focused on who needs it more or ‘should get it first’.

Also, is this roll out in spite of the announcement that NBN work has been halted in Canberra?

arescarti42 said :

Seems like an odd choice to me.

I would’ve thought those areas would be pretty well serviced already by ADSL2+ from the Belconnen exchange.

Surely the people out in the new suburbs of West Belconnen on RIMs miles from the exchange should get it first.

Agree. Wasn’t Aranda also the first place to get TransACT?

Seems like an odd choice to me.

I would’ve thought those areas would be pretty well serviced already by ADSL2+ from the Belconnen exchange.

Surely the people out in the new suburbs of West Belconnen on RIMs miles from the exchange should get it first.