Optus to build D2 earth station & major facility in Canberra

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:21

Business IT - Networking

Optus says it will invest $35 million over the next two years to develop a new technical facility in Canberra housing a satellite earth station, data centre and an exchange to support mobile, local and international telephony, Internet, subscription television, and satellite services.
The facility is scheduled to come into operation in 2007 and will provide growth capacity and redundancy for Sydney and Melbourne exchanges. It will be Optus' second exchange in Canberra and will be the primary earth station for the Optus D2 satellite, due for launch in late 2006.