Houses linked up in Tassie NBN: photos

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    A cable box set under a house's eaves

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    The box is linked to the street's fibre via a connection point on the house.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    If you're lucky, your house might have a j-bar.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    Overhead fibre is great! Fibre multi-port and drop are on the left, aerial PSTN copper on the right.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    This sign has become very prevalent.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    In some cases, where fibre is blowing around in the wind, it's even a useful sign.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    This is a fibre distribution hub, next to a pit.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    No prizes for guessing what's inside this pit.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    A peek inside the hub.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    A testing truck.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    This was one of the locations considered for the Scottsdale fibre exchange. It was decided that it was too close to the football goals. No one wanted people coming in to fetch balls from around the enclosure.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    This was another possible location, but the council didn't want to sell the land.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    It ended up behind the church. Can you spot it?

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    If you couldn't see it, here's a close up.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    Warnings abound.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    At least the church seems to have a sense of humour.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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    The central part of the main street was one of the lucky areas to have its cabling underground.

    Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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ZDNet Australia has obtained some more photographs of the National Broadband Network roll-out taking place in Scottsdale, Tasmania.

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A cable box set under a house's eaves

Caption by: Suzanne Tindal

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