Fibre to premises gives new housing estate 100Mbps

07.08.2009
University Hill in Victoria is a new 400 house residential, commercial and retail precinct which is believed to be the first of its type in Australia to have 100Mbps fibre to the premises (FTTP) connectivity available to each building.

According to network developers NEC and , NEC's Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology will be used to deliver up to 100Mbps, which is a first for Australia.

The "open access" may be used for the federal .

University Hill residents will have access to fast Internet and standard telephone services over IP with simultaneous delivery of high and standard definition free-to-air and pay TV, all delivered to the home over the single optical fibre connection.

Residents will be able to select from a range of ten ISPs, telephony providers and TV services.

University Hill will , with very high speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) connections available in multi-tenanted buildings.