Hi folks, I received my first notification of this from AAPT Wholesale today, regarding a service in Geelong. Excerpt from the email; === nbn™ is implementing a SOS (Save our Showtime) and ROC (Robust Overhead Channel) upgrade of VDSL2 (FTTN/FTTB) services (*SOS/ROC Upgrade*). The purpose of the upgrade is to prevent dropouts due to sudden large noise bursts, thereby improving service stability. The SOS/ROC Upgrade is expected to commence on 1 July 2021. How Does This Affect You? The SOS/ROC Upgrade will affect customers who have deployed Metanoia or Intel chip set devices. nbn™ advises that Metanoia and Intel chip set devices will be affected as follows: • Metanoia SFP devices will fail to negotiate and cause a hard down outage; and • Intel chip set devices will become unstable, causing a higher percentage of dropouts and service instability. === It lists a single service that I have in the area (which doesn't actually have one of these SFPs on it, so somewhat unrelated to this thread), so it seems that the rollout is indeed commencing. Interestingly I have multiple VDSL services in the same area, but only this one listed in my advisory, so it seems that NBN has a way to determine which CPE devices are incompatible. What's the status of the SFP firmware update? Cheers, Tim On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 17:03, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone, and “CALLING ALL NBN RSPs” ; )
As you can probably imagine, we’ve been working on addressing this issue for a while now, and although making some good progress, we’ve come up against a barrier that we need some assistance from an active NBN RSP to continue to make progress toward a final solution.
We have received a sample on SFP modem with prospective upgrade firmware, but before we can make a general roll-out, we need to find a way to test the module against the proposed NBN DSLAM profile. The only way that I have so far identified to have that test done is for a currently registered NBN Service Provider to conduct that testing in a similar manner to the technical testing program during the NBNCo onboarding program.
Since the only way to gain access to that testing process is to be a registered or (currently onBoarding) Service Provider, we are now in the process of reaching out to registered RSPs with whom we have some prior engagement to assist in working through that testing process.
IF you can represent a currently operating RSP and would like to work with us to find a resolution for this potential problem, please do reply off list at your convenience – we’d LOVE to hear from you! : )
For everyone else, please stand by and watch this space for future update! : )
(and questions, concerns, comments always welcome of course!)
Cheers!
Mike.
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