Primus lights up Metro Fibre

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 06 October 2011 09:06

Business IT - Networking

Primus has completed the first stage of its project to add Optical Transport Network capability to its fibre rings.

Primus has implemented Optical Transport Network (OTN) on its fibre rings in Sydney and Melbourne, allowing the aggregation of lower bandwidth services and the optimisation of fibre utilisation. Primus Metro Fibre will be extended to other capital cities, and when complete will provide high speed, low latency inter-capital bandwidth.

Company officials said Primus Metro Fibre is designed to deliver state of the art, high capacity data services that will be both cost effective and efficient through the redundant ring architecture.

Primus selected the Huawei OSN 8800 platform for the project. "Huawei's state of the art OTN network technology will allow for optimisation of current IP Traffic across the Primus network, ultimately enhancing the end-user experience," said Peter Rossi, CTO of Huawei Australia.