INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
With uptake of Hybrid Fibre Co-axial (HFC) NBN connections by Australians confirmed to have been much greater than NBN Co initially
forced to put a hold on new HFC installations in December 2017.That pause was lifted in April in a limited capacity, and now NBN Co has
announced that it has fast-tracked the rollout of a new technological standard that hopes to alleviate HFC capacity issues.The new DOCSIS
3.1 technology that's powering the upgrade was originally slated for a late 2018 deployment, but has been pushed forward by several months
and has already been activated in thousands of Sydney and Melbourne premises.What is DOCSIS 3.1DOCSIS stands for Data Over Cable Service
resort to node-splitting, a process which involved installing extra physical nodes where the demand required them
Thousands of these nodes are already in place, but the installation process makes it a time consuming and labour intensive solution.Pleasant
side effectsWhile node splitting did achieve the desired extra capacity, it was considerably less efficient a strategy than the DOCSIS 3.1
implementation, and was ultimately considered a band-aid solution.NBN Co claims that switching to the new specification will help in
maximum download speed of 10Gbps and an upload speed of 1Gbps
most affected will be the first to see the benefits.
