GPON can serve up to 128 homes or businesses over a single optical fibre.

Executive general manager of NEC Australia, John Norton, said University Hill is a good example of what all homes in Australia will have access to as a result of the NBN.

"Residents can enjoy reliable, secure and super-fast Internet connectivity to consume movies, music and gaming as well as any number of additional high speed applications like e-health and video calling," Norton said.

University Hill resident Bill Hristovski said: "It's great. We're big users of the Internet so having such a quick and reliable service means we can download movies in about eight minutes. I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time on iTunes."

OptiComm general manager Phil Smith said for new fibre to the home network deployments are to truly comply with the government's NBN, they have to be open access.