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• NBN considers roll-out of NG-PON2

  NBN sees potential in NG-PON2 (Next-Generation Passive Optical Network 2) as means to deliver on its future bandwidth and capacity requirements, the company’s CTO said today.

• NBN rollout still 'technology agnostic', says Fifield

  Australia's new communications minister, Senator Mitch Fifield, has repeated prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's claim that the roll out of the National Broadband Network is "technology agnostic" under the Coalition government.

• NBN formally launches FTTN, aims for 500k premises by mid-2016

  NBN today officially launched its fibre-to-the-node offering, with the company aiming to have half a million premises able to order FTTN services by the middle of next year.

• NBN Co chief expects Telstra, Optus talks to end in 2014

  National Broadband Network negotiations with Telstra are on the “home stretch” and could be submitted for government approval by the end of the year, NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow has said.

• NBN: Is your suburb getting FTTN?

  NBN Co has published details of suburbs set to receive fibre-to-the-node services as part of the company's test deployment of FTTN technology.

• NBN Co would do more fibre if it was cheaper: Morrow

  The Senate committee overseeing the National Broadband Network has drilled NBN Co about a disputed report that claimed great cost reductions to rolling out fibre to the premise (FTTP).

• Hot copper: Bell Labs attains 10Gbps broadband speeds

  Bell Labs, the research arm of networking company Alcatel-Lucent, has achieved broadband speeds of 10 gigabits per second over copper phone lines, setting a new record. The test demonstrates how existing copper networks can be used to deliver 1Gbps symmetrical broadband, according to Alcatel-Lucent.
  

• Expanded FTTN trial will shape NBN's future

  An agreement between Telstra and NBN Co for a 1000-node deployment of fibre-to-the-node technology will "deliver valuable insights into how to build a sustainable and consistent program of work that allows the industry to ramp up and deploy the FTTN element of the NBN at scale," according to NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow.

• NBN Co and Telstra sign FTTN deal

  NBN Co and Telstra have signed a deal to undertake a fibre-to-the-node trial.

• NBN Co hits 105Mbps in limited FTTN trial

  NBN Co achieved 105 megabits per second download speeds in a of test of fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) technology at a shop on the New South Wales Central Coast.

• NBN Co chair says copper in 'reasonable condition'

  Copper has proven to be more resilient than NBN Co Chairman Ziggy Switkowski once thought, the former Telstra executive has told a parliamentary committee today.

• FTTN makes sense for NBN, AAPT says

  It makes more sense to roll out fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) for the National Broadband Network (NBN) than the government's current fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) approach, according to the CEO of internet service provider AAPT.

• Former ACCC chairman an NBN "cheerleader", Turnbull says

  Malcolm Turnbull has hit back at claims by Graeme Samuel, former ACCC chairman, that fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) uses obsolete technology and equipment.

• Coalition can't rely on Telstra shareholders: Ludlam

  Though plans to scrap the National Broadband Network (NBN) under a Coalition Government are thought to appease Telstra's 1.6 million shareholders, Australian Greens Senator, Scott Ludlam, said it was chasing after the wrong constituency.
  

• Internode spends $10m on 57 exchange broadband expansion

  ISP Internode has announced a $10 million network expansion plan that will nearly double the capacity of its ADSL2+ broadband coverage over the next 12 months.