“It’s important that we do our initial installation projects in regional areas because this is not just an intercapital fibre network for cities. What’s unique about our fibre project is it’s a dual cable network, on each fibre route,” wrote Telstra InfraCo executive fibre assets Kathryn Jones in a LinkedIn post.
Jones adds the first cable will be an express (intercapital) direct fibre network between capital cities designed for Telstra’s customers seeking point-to-point dark fibre over long distances.
The second cable will provide connectivity to regional locations and centres via break out and access points, she adds.
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The network is using Prysmian Group’s cables, which she said, are resilient to harsh conditions. It will be able to express connectivity between capital cities up to 55Tbps per fibre pair capacity on Sydney-Canberra-Melbourne.
Last March, Telstra InfraCo CEO Brendon Riley wrote the company witnessed the huge explosion of data during the pandemic, adding this phenomenon won’t go away.
Thus, Riley underscored that the fibre network will enable Australians to do business on the world-stage.
Over the next five years, this upgrade to the fibre network will add a dual path of 20,000 route kilometres, he said.
“The network will be bolstered with high-speed, low-latency connectivity in mind to provide transmission rates over 650Gbps – six times the common rate of 100Gbps today,” he said.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 13 May 2022.
