back to article Can gigabit fibre services revive Adelaide?

The South Australian SABREnet, the local academic network that connects universities to the national AARNet network, is going to be expanded to provide high-speed connections for Adelaide businesses. Premier Jay Weatherill said yesterday the government will sling AU$4.7 million at the project, which will offer services up to …

  1. John Tserkezis

    It's making the NBN look like it's been caught with its pants down.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Pants? What pants? Been caught completely stark naked more like.

    2. mathew42
      FAIL

      Slow nbn being overtaken

      I know Labor tried to build a FTTP network but I'm still not sure why when they planned to have less than 1% connected in 2026.

      https://twitter.com/NBNBenefits/status/747747624044765185

      1. Sir Cumferance

        Re: Slow nbn being overtaken

        Posting here as well as ZD Net and Delimter?

        Do you ever tire of it?

  2. PleebSmasher
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    gigabit is too old

    You're going to need terabit-to-the-home (TTTTTTH) for a genuine revival.

  3. wyatt

    Line will always trump RF for bandwidth, but in a country with lots of open spaces is it not cost beneficial to put in RF links?

    1. phuzz Silver badge

      Looking at the map, and reading the article, they're only looking at covering a relatively small area (ie Adelaide).

      That's the politest way I can find of asking whether you read anything on the page apart from the 'Comment' button.

      1. wyatt

        Fair point! I can take less polite when I'm dropping myself in it..

        My comments were really intended (how you'd know this from what I typed I don't know..) about covering the large area that Australia stretches over. Is fibre cheaper/more expensive than RF links? At least if you're sticking masts in you have some cover rather than waiting for a dig team or poles being put up.

        1. Sir Cumferance

          The masts are connected to their network by (guess what) fibre.

  4. Sir Cumferance

    Will they exploit the 1 km rule, like TPG?

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