Why do NBN in a Regional City?
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Impact of the NBN in an Australian Regional City: Disruption, innovation and the empowerment of the individual.
Australian Computer Society President in Townsville, July 2015
| NBN ability | Why is it important? |
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| NBN Connections | Over 1.1 million NBN connections are available but only 436,000 used (July 2015). Early adopters can start new competitive advantage processes quicker. |
| NBN Fibre/Wireless/Satellite | The whole of Australia will be covered by NBN satellite by the end of 2015. Remote users will have great Internet for the first time. E.g. Smarter agriculture & remote control and monitoring. |
| NBN Regional City Map | NBN fibre is going into many regional cities with NBN wireless surrounding them. E.g. Townsville has 18 suburbs of NBN fibre and NBN wireless around it. |
| NBN Fibre Connections | Consider where the internal fibre connections will be made relative to your internal telephony/network/router hardware. |
| NBN Satellite | NBN Long Term Satellite can be solar powered almost anywhere in Australia. This connection can provide Internet resources for many computers, tablets and smartphones. |
| Video Conferencing | Multiple site video conferencing with shared PC screens, shared video, text chat to audience, recording etc. Up to 6 sites presenting. |
| Disaster Recovery | Use cloud based computing resources from a secondary site in cases of local disaster. |
| International Business | Conduct international business without video and audio dropouts. Show your products and services to international customers successfully. |
| Innovation | Take advantage of new ways of doing things with high speed broadband. Lower business startup costs using infrastructure/platform/software as a service. |
| Virtual Teams | Gain access to remote specialist skills to complete your jobs or projects. Gather the ideal skills for a project from around Australia. |
| City Capabilities | Get access to capital city like communication services at a resonable cost. Level the playing field for regional business. |
| VOIP Telephony | Use Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) to have the telephony connectivity without the line rental costs. One NBN connection can service over 100 phone lines. |
| One PABX for many offices | Share a PABX phone system across multiple premises. Internet Protocol (IP) phones can use the NBN to get back to the central PABX. You can also use an IP phone from home. |
| Online Meetings | Conduct meetings with video across multiple cities. Save on transport costs. NBN can provide high frame rate and high definition video quality for better communications. |
| Cloud Computing at scale | Get access to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Compute resources. NBN allows for up to about 100 cloud computing users per connection. NBN can provide 4 Gigabit network connections per premises. |
| Distributed Computing | NBN can help with computer connections at company headquarters, company branch office or employee home connections. Stay productive from multiple sites. |
| Online Backup | Use the fast NBN upload speed for online backups for servers, computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Offsite backup without the backup tapes headaches. |
| Better eCommerce | Customers can access richer online shopping experiences and merchants can have quicker supply chain analytics. Less communication bottlenecks at peak periods. |
| Internet Based Television | Gain access to worldwide television. Sell video content to a worldwide audience. Move large video files across the Internet faster. E.g. A film in under 2 minutes. |
| Global Digital Product Sales | A NBN based web server can support digital product sales from onsite premises. E.g. Software, digital plans, multimedia, eBooks, documents, reports, digital workflows etc. |
| Online Training | Complete online training quicker without video delays, slow downloads and slower exams. Maintain professional development hours without leaving the office or home. |
| Internet Kiosk | Use simple computing devices to provide fast Internet access, local tourism information or specialised self service custom ordering terminals. E.g Shoes of Prey instore terminals. |
| eHealth Options | Connect patient to nurses, doctors, specialists and hospitals online without as many patient transfers. Collect more data from patient for better health decisions. |
| Smarter Cities | Connect cities across various information services for happier residents. E.g. Traffic data, energy use data, climate data, workplace data, government data, shared data centres etc. |
Use the NBN to your advantage.
