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Sydney-based Networking Vendor NetComm Wins NBN's FTTC Deal

Sydney-based Networking Vendor NetComm Wins NBN's FTTC Deal Image Credit: Netcomm Wireless

nbn, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network has awarded multi-million deal to NetComm Wireless to supply Distribution Point Units (DPUs) for its Fibre-to-the-Curb (FTTC) network.

The Sydney-headquartered networking vendor will be a key equipment supplier to support NBN's national broadband rollout and is expected to start delivering the equipments in the second half of 2017. NetComm appears to have beaten out the likes of Nokia which is already a major supplier of services to NBN, according to ITwire.com.

NetComm Wireless will supply nbn with 1-port and 4-port DPUs that have been specifically designed for the nbn FTTC project. They will be installed in the telecommunications pits outside premises to connect fibre to the household's existing copper lines. This then allows nbn to remotely activate the service on request, offering convenience, speed and value.

Early this year, nbn conducted XG-FAST technology trial with Nokia to leverage the technology across network technologies utilising copper for the last mile, including NBN's fibre-to-the-node (FttN), fibre-to-the-basement (FttB), and fibre-to-the-distribution-point (FttDP) networks.

Peter Ryan, Chief Network Engineering Officer at nbn
Delivering FTTC will not only allow us to deliver speeds of up to 100/40Mbps using VDSL but will also allow us to offer even faster speeds in the future with some of the new technologies that are becoming available. 

David Stewart, NetComm Wireless CEO and Managing Director
Our team specifically developed this FTTdp solution to help build out the nbn network in a faster more cost effective way. What's exciting is that our solution for FTTdp has broader, global applications that will open up additional partnership prospects offshore, as we have done with NetComm Wireless' fixed wireless solution. 

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