all the ftts

  • NBN Connects 2 Million Premises, But With More Complaints

    NBN has just released its third-quarter results, boasting what it calls “strong performance results across all key metrics” and a push towards hitting its full-year goals. What that means for you: the NBN is being rolled out more quickly, with twice as many premises hooked up as the same time last year.


  • NBN Congestion Is Forcing ISPs To Build Their Own Private Networks

    The NBN is a complicated piece of technology — the largest infrastructure project in Australian history. From its inception in 2007 as a mostly-fibre network to the multi-technology mix of 2017, it’s evolved into a Byzantine mess both for customers to understand and for internet service providers to manage. The main pain point is congestion…


  • What Is FTTdp?

    The five-letter acronym on every telco nerd’s mind at the moment — FTTdp — stands for fibre to the distribution point. Sitting somewhere in between fibre to the node (FTTN) and fibre to the premises (FTTP or FTTH) in speed, cost and complexity, it’s a new potential technology that may feature heavily in the future…