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Australia - The National Broadband Network - Moving into 2018 - Research and Markets
[September 25, 2017]

Australia - The National Broadband Network - Moving into 2018 - Research and Markets


The "Australia - The National Broadband Network - Moving into 2018" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering.

This annual publication provides analysis on the National Broadband Network moving into 2018. It includes forecasts, overviews and discussions on:

  • The NBN Company
  • Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) and Fibre-to-the-Basement
  • (FTTB) roll outs
  • Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN) and VDSL
  • HFC Networks
  • Fixed Wireless and Satellite Networks
  • Statistics and Surveys
  • Overview of Major Contracts
  • Policies and Regulations
  • Other Market Analysis

The Australian telecommunications market will change dramatically over the next ten years. Accelerated by government policies in relation to broadband infrastructure and the National Digital Economy Strategy these changes will drive the transformation of the telecom industry as well as a range of economic sectors dependent on telecom infrastructure.

These developments will be further accelerated by a range of dependent sectors such as cloud computing, M2M and big data. The over-the-top (OTT) players are also becoming more and more prominent in the telecoms industry and this will start blurring some of the borders between infrastructure, IT and applications.

In its original plan under the previous government, the nbn, the company overseeig Australia's National Broadband Network (News - Alert) (NBN) project, would connect 93% of homes, schools and workplaces to an optical fibre network (fibre-to-the-premises - FTTP), providing high-speed broadband services to Australians in urban and regional towns. The remaining 7% of premises would be connected to an LTE (News - Alert)-based fixed wireless network, and for those outside these footprints to a satellite network.



With the arrival of a new government, the new plan was estimated to cost $41 billion (which has since been increased to approximately $50 billion). It is a move away from a pure FTTP plan to a multi-technology-mix approach deploying FTTP, Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN), Fibre-to-the-Basement (FTTB) and cable (HFC) in addition to fixed wireless and satellite.

Key Developments:


  • 14 NBN wholesale providers now offer a mix of backhaul and wholesale aggregation services to RSPs.
  • FTTP will connect 20% of premises by 2020, while a further 38% will be served by FTTN.
  • nbn is expected to operate services based on the DOCSIS3.1 at the end of 2018, capable of delivering data at 1Gb/s.
  • It is also actively looking at other cable networking advances such as full-duplex DOCSIS technology, which is capable of 10Gbps symmetrical speeds.
  • Fibre-to-the-curb will be deployed to a potential footprint of up to 700,000 premises across the country.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Market analysis

2. The NBN Company

3. Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) and Fibre-to-the-Basement (FTTB) roll outs

4. Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN) and VDSL

5. HFC networks

6. Fixed wireless and satellite networks

7. Other statistics and surveys

8. Overview of major contracts

9. Policies and regulations

Companies Mentioned

  • Active8me
  • Austar; Ericsson; Visionstream; Optus (News - Alert)
  • Bordernet
  • Clear Networks
  • CSIRO
  • Fibercorp
  • Harbour IT
  • iiNet
  • Internode
  • LBNCo
  • NBN
  • Neighbourhood Cable
  • OPENetworks
  • OptiComm
  • Optus
  • Pivit
  • Reachnet
  • RedTrain
  • Rivertel
  • SkyMesh
  • Space Systems/Loral
  • Telstra
  • TransACT
  • ViaSat (News - Alert)

For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c7zsfr/australia_the


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