Regional Mathematics of Digital Waves - NBN opportunities

An incredible set of innovations have washed over us in the last 20 years; Email, The Web, Mobile Phones, eCommerce, Social Media all have spawned industries, companies and opportunities that were not even conceptualised in the world we occupied previously.

Take a quick look at the current waves hitting the beach; YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter & Mobile Apps. All have some surprising similar traits. Key among them is they offer innovative (regional) populations a platform for real and lasting change, if they can 'surf the waves' for their own purposes.

So what are the mathematics of digital waves. The exact answer lies in the pure mathematical expression of sine or 'sin' eg. y=sin x , expressed below.



These pure waves go for ever on the horizontal x axis, and on the y axis oscillating between 1 and -1 may just represent the rolling nature of many things in nature and in digital world of innovations.

If we overlay the cosine of y=cos x to the graph this may represent the delayed effect in the real world change of these digital innovations.



These of course are perfect expressions and as such don't apply in the outside world, as there are so many variables that distort these waves. It is in these 'distortions' that we see the pitfalls or opportunities.

Imagine for example if a regional population could bring the blue line of digital reality closer to the red curve. This would in effect shorten the uptake time of a digital technology in the population and accelerate the real change, literally ahead of the curve.

More of this later.
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NBN Evangelists enlisted for a virtual crusade

The federal government has decided to recruit NBN advocates from the community, business, education and association sector to help tell the public how a future NBN will work. Prominent advocates and high profile 'evangelists' including a chief scientist, a famous author, and the head of a major telecommunications users group.
The government announcement stressed the 'voluntary' nature of these appointments, supposedly meaning that these people are not the usual high paid crew of spin doctors and professional opinion makers.
This method might just cut some mustard in a slogan saturated public arena that always assumes that citizens are too busy for real and informed opinions. Regional NBN wishes the evangelists good luck and good communicating.

Acronyms, 'Telephone Exchanges' & Points of Interconnect (POI)

OMG what the F are POI? A legitimate question, at least if you understand the mind numbing acronyms the telco industry adopt to describe their infrastructure.
Our telco boffins are of course not alone in having caught this insidious disease. Most educated Australians in management positions create these BIG letter acronyms to our collective bemusement. Popular too are weasel words like 'digitally arranged visual evidence' that neatly dodge accountability and isolate a critical examiner with ease (That bit of silliness is a security camera video).

The problem is if you are trying to advocate for a popular technology project or product and you use increasingly distant terms to sell your attributes, you metaphorically shoot yourself in the mouth. BOOM as in boom, you've lost us.

So it comes to the increasingly difficult issue of explaining the importance of modern telephone exchanges to a public hungry for knowledge about the National Broadband Network (NBN) roll out. The telecommunications industry call these exchanges 'Points Of Interconnect' (POI) They are really important as the ACCC - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission have told us and the NBN Company as the builders of the nation's new broadband network.

Basically as far as I can decipher the ACCC has insisted that there now be built 120 odd of these new telephone exchanges instead of the originally planned 14. The commission's rationale appears to be that this will enhance competition on the new network. Well that may be the case, but of course it is also much more expensive to build 120 instead of 14 of these super exchanges. Who is going to pay for them and more importantly where are they going to be located?
On the question of who can pay for 120 exchanges? Early signals indicate only the big companies like Telstra and Optus can afford a full nation wide spread. On the question of where these exchanges are or will be located is a vexed issue, because the location of these will heavily influence where the NBN will be rolled out and how early.
In other words my regional friends lobbying like tom cats to get on an early roll out schedule, the location of these super exchanges may very well be the factor that gets you a NBN ticket or not.

Where these exchanges are or will be is another investigation worth an acronym or two, can I suggest WTF R D POI?