TransACT rolls out 1Gbps broadband

I don't understand, how transact can do this, even with say a high monthly fee of say $500 (residential market that is).

Lets say you have 100 customers on this 1 Gbps product. Therefore you have a requirement to supply 100 Gbps of bandwidth.

Of course no self-respecting Telco would do this. Instead they would provision 10:1 worth of bandwidth. Thus they would be up to provision 10gbps of bandwidth.

Wholesale bandwidth these days, depending on volume can range from $60 per mbps to 1500 per mbps. Even at $60 per mbps there is no way in hell you could charge enough to recover the basic cost of bandwidth supply let alone your other costs.

Therefore these services won't be used for internet use (due to the IP costs). Instead you'll find that Transact will just use em to deliver cable TV and similar media that delivered from the Megapop...

the above post is a textbook case of "tall poppy syndrome"
why some people are so damn negative

i say technology like this is awesome, stuff like this is similar to the way BMW and ferrari put things like abs sat nav etc into their cars back in the 1980's, sure it was buggy or had limitations but they eventually got it right then technology started to filter down to us common folk who drive falcons today

just like transact has Gigabit fttp hopefully this paves the way for increased speeds on the NBN sooner rather than later, and increased bandwidth in and out of the country

even thow it will get throttled back id still get it because its more reliable then my adsl2+ witch gets me around 4mgbs lol. so hey as long as the quota was around 60gigs+ on a reasonable cost i would get it.

""Ow and they will probably offer it as a "up too" speed, which means TransACT will not garentee that 1gbps. So no one will actually get the 1gbps speed... Just like how not many people can get 24mbps on ADSL""

Because it is delivered by fibre, the speed will not depreciate over distance like DSL does.

They probably will have to throttle back to 30mbps or so outside their network but the bragging rights are phenomenal. :D

Bloody wingers.
If it isn't

Bloody wingers.

If it isn't free and at a million GBps all you clowns rubbish it.

Sure it won't be 1Gbps but 10 times the max theoretical ADSL 2+ speed would be nice

And not for a whole lot more!!!!

There is not free entitlement to brodband either morally or legally, so suck it up and pay if you want real broadband. If you weren't all tight misers, Optus and other could build a business case to deploy. This isn't Korea and its extremely expensive to build networks. So pay up and you'll get what you want.

seems everyones forgetting about backhaul !!! what use is a Gig if everyones got it and the backhaul is only 10 or 100 gig for thousands of customers - probable ok for a smaller ISP limited customers if the can afford it

The Reason that almost no one can get 24mbps on ADSL+2 is the speed degrades rapidly over cable length. Fiber dose Not have this problem. Transact will certainly have to upgrade the Backbone of their network to deliver the 1gbps speeds, but it is possible.

So TransACT plugged an ONT with a Gigabit Ethernet customer port into their GPON FTTH network. So what?

There's no point about arguing about contention ratios or backhaul speeds, because TransACT's customers are being given ONTs with 100Mbit interface speeds, and I doubt that will change any time soon.

Furthermore, it's pretty obvious most of you know nothing about TransACT - they don't do quotas. You need to sign up separately to an ISP who will provide you with a plan (and therefore a quota) of your choice.