scholarly journals Broadband Futures Forum: Regional and Rural Broadband Access

Author(s):  
Leith H Campbell

On 24 March 2021, TelSoc hosted the sixth Broadband Futures Forum, held online, with a focus on regional and rural broadband access. Mr Gavin Williams from NBN Co, the developer of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN), spoke about developments in Fixed Wireless and Satellite services and described NBN Co’s commitment to ongoing enhancement of broadband access in regional and rural Australia. A question-and-answer session followed the presentation in which Mr Williams fielded a variety of questions on broadband access and technological developments.

Author(s):  
Alex De Smedt

This chapter focuses on the equipment in the home, providing broadband access to the users into the home, called residential gateway. The chapter shows how such a device evolves from a simple modem to an advanced gateway system that contributes to: • The access inside the home of any data on any compatible device • The ubiquity of access points for the broadband network • The ubiquity of media data in the home from remote devices • The communication of mobile handsets via the fixed network. The objective of this chapter is to give the reader a technical insight into the enabling mechanisms and technologies dealing with such functionalities. The text indicates particular technical solutions, but explanations are kept high-level in order to allow nontechnical readers to understand the basics and concepts of the solutions. A number of references show that the technical exposé is becoming a reality.


Author(s):  
Leith H Campbell ◽  
Sascha Suessspeck ◽  
Kerry Hinton

We provide a bottom-up analysis of broadband availability in Australia without the NBN and with the NBN. For Australia without the NBN, we have assumed that broadband availability, in terms of access speed, would have continued to evolve; in particular, we have assumed that all DSL access would have been enhanced to ADSL2+. For Australia with the NBN, we concentrate on the Multi-Technology Mix version now being deployed in the fixed-line footprint. The NBN can make a difference both in terms of the geographical availability of broadband access and in the maximum access speeds provided. We consider both these aspects for the period after the current NBN has been fully deployed. Our analysis is based solely on publicly available information and census data from 2011. We find that the NBN will extend fixed-line broadband availability only marginally. In terms of access speed, we find that a further 17% of the population will have access to 10 Mb/s downstream and a further 65% of the population will have access to 25 Mb/s. Only a further 11% of the population will have access to 10 Mb/s and above upstream. The improvement in availability is particularly marked in outer suburban areas of the major cities and in regional centres.


Author(s):  
Colin McGuire ◽  
Malcolm R Brew ◽  
Faisal Darbari ◽  
Gregour Bolton ◽  
Anthony McMahon ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Muhammad Agung Nugroho ◽  
Ariesta Damayanti ◽  
Muhammad Fahrur Rifai ◽  
Syamsu Windarti

STMIK AKAKOM annually opens new student registration through offline and online media. Through online media, several media such as websites, social media and email are used. However, on media such as social media, there are questions that often arise regarding new student registration information. With limited human resources to always be online for 24 hours, an alternative model is needed to provide answers to these questions, even though the social media manager offline. Nowadays. In the term of technological developments, it is possible to create a model of knowledge base in the form of a summary of questions and answers to certain topics. This knowledge base can use as a model for creating a prototype application that can provide answers if there are questions related to new student registration. This study aims to provide convenience in the question and answer process by using a Google Dialogflow.


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