{"id":4237,"date":"2011-11-17T19:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2011-11-17T19:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:47:40","slug":"nbn-myths-debunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/11\/nbn-myths-debunked\/","title":{"rendered":"NBN: Myths Debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mq.edu.au\/\">Macquarie University<\/a> has been around since August &#8211; but with recent announcements from the Federal Opposition regarding policy towards the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbnco.com.au\/\">National Broadband Network<\/a> (NBN), and their ill-conceived, badly under engineered and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2011\/11\/opposition-nbn-plan-to-cost-more\/\">ultimately more expensive Fibre to the Node (FTTN) plan<\/a>, I thought it pertinent to spread this one out more widely.<\/p>\n<p>As a warning, it is quite technical in places, and if you choose to watch it right through its entire 56 minute length, I suggest you get a cuppa and a few biscuits ready before you start, but it is worth it if you want to understand what is really happening out there &#8211; rather than all the misinformation that is out there.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6a2ne1WKxek\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard Peter Ferris speak on a number of occasions, and having spent more than 16 years in the IT industry myself, dealing with telco issues for much of that career, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever struck a person with as much intrinsic knowledge on this stuff as he.<\/p>\n<p>Watch and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video from Macquarie University has been around since August &#8211; but with recent announcements from the Federal Opposition regarding policy towards the National Broadband Network (NBN), and their ill-conceived, badly under engineered and ultimately more expensive Fibre to the Node (FTTN) plan, I thought it pertinent to spread this one out more widely. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,368],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auspol","tag-nbn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}