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Is 100 Mbps really enough?

reply to mix
As was stated, the real cost is in running the cables, boosting the speed is fairly trivial, its already easy to push 40Gbit. 100Gbit is doable.

100Mbit to the home is fast enough for the initial network, just keep stepping it up as the equipment gets cheaper.
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reply to mix
They recently decided to increase the initial speeds from 100 Mb/s to 1000 Mb/s.

'»www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010···0752.htm'

This was always part of the plan, they just accelerated it based talks with retail ISPs (NBN's customers), and the success of trial/initial deployment in Tasmania.

As commenters above noted, the cost of the network is the actual deployment of fiber, it costs very little to maintain (self supporting), and it's future proof. It can be continually upgraded to 10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s, and beyond.

Here's a choice quote from someone who doesn't understand this:

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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he doubts the Government's claim of super-fast speeds.

"This idea that, hey presto, we are suddenly going to get 10 times the speed from something that isn't even built yet, I find utterly implausible," he said.

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