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VIRTUALISATION Telco industry group presents FTTx manifesto to Gov't
VIRTUALISATION Telco industry group presents FTTx manifesto to Gov't | Telco industry group presents FTTx manifesto to Gov't |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 06 March 2008 | |
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Membership of the group includes major network vendors Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel. Carriers, however are less well represented Optus, Primus, Silk Telecom, TransACT and Unwired are members, but others with significant infrastructure including AAPT (PowerTel), Soul, Nextgen Networks and Pipe Networks are not members. Neither, not surprisingly is Telstra to whom the group's recommendation would be anathema. The document is a 60 page distillation of over 600 pages of contributions from group members. Members have offered to make their resources available to further develop the proposals. "The network of the 140 companies represented in this group is at the Minister's disposal to assist in realizing his vision regarding a true National Broadband Network." The report, however is not a fully coherent set of recommendations it notes that "While the industry has provided broad consensus on the views and recommendations in this paper, it is inevitable that sometimes, opinions may occasionally differ. In those cases the conflicting views have also been expressed." The report suggests that industry based working groups can be established to work out the details, for example, in relation to technical issues, regulatory issues, industry cooperation, mapping of infrastructure, and arranging cooperation with local governments and state government. |
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