Nbn Forum November 16 2015John Stanton, CEO

Communications Alliance

nbn – Operationally Speaking

• Active since February 2013

• Initial focus on migration of personal medical alarms and security alarms from copper to fibre

• Preparing Migration of Legacy Services industry guidance note – also encompassing fire alarm and elevator telephone services – early 2016

NBN Over-the-Top Services Transition (NOST)

• Major input to Vertigan Review re Vectored VDSL2 rollout, interference & competition management

• Writing new Code – industry arrangements for next generation broadband services

• VDSL2: Exchange, FTTN & FTTB

• G.fast for in-building services??

• Interference management

• Facilitating competitive activity

WC58 – VDSL2 & Vectoring

• Draft Code being prepared for public comment• Functionality for access transfer to be released in two

phases

• Phase 1 – same port transfer for FTTP and Fixed Wireless

• Phase 2 – Same port transfer for all technologies and cross port transfer for applicable technologies.

- EPID identification in Transfer Loss Notifications

WC53 – nbn Fibre Access Transfer

• Revising G652 to incorporate recommendations from DoCA Migration Assurance Policy

• Updating Processes re Customer Communications Journey

• Collaboration with NOST

• Info relating to business customers & potential power outages

WC63 – Copper Migration Processes & Solutions

• Guidance Note IGN 008 published September 2015

• Moving to develop Code / Guideline

• Inclusion of HFC migrations

• Working Committee reconvenes end November

• Aim to publish new doc. by May/June 2016

WC68 – NBN FTTB/N & HFC Migration

• NBN Co Guidelines for Developers revised & streamlined• CA Guideline: Fibre-Ready Pit & Pipe Specification for Real

Estate Development to be revised

Fibre-Ready Pit & Pipe Spec. for Real Estate Development

• Longer term number portability requirements• Facilitate the development of a consistent method for the

porting of telecommunications numbers on a range of services

• identify options for a future common platform for number portability

WC50 –Number Portability – Future IP Model

• Collaborative Australian IoT community

• Sectoral engagement on Resources management (focus on Water and Energy), Agriculture, Transport and Smart Cities.

• Open data – develop IoT open data and data sharing principles & guidelines.

• Spectrum availability – led by ACMA

• Security – guidelines for IoT services, including data protection.

• IoT start-up innovation  

Internet of Things (IoT) Think Tank – Next Steps