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30 more communities in SA, Vic & NSW get competitive backhaul
Stuart Corner
Monday, 21 November 2011 15:54
Communications minister, Stephen Conroy has announced that the wholesale fibre backbone link between Gawler in South Australia, Broken Hill in NSW and Shepparton in Victoria - part of the Regional Backhaul Blackspot program - is 'open for business'.
It connects into Nextgen's existing nodes in Adelaide and Melbourne and provides access to its national network with 17,000km of fibre connecting more than 130 major metropolitan and regional population centres. According to Nextgen, 'the route has been designed to benefit over 130,000 regional consumer and business users. It brings competitive backbone services to 30 regional locations."
The 30 locations are: Gawler, Tanunda, Angaston, Nuriootpa, Kapunda, Dutton East, Waikerie, Wigley Flat, Barmera, Berry, Renmark, Morcalla North, Merbein, Mildura, Coombah, Broken Hill, Red Cliffs, Chippendale, Robinvale, Kyalite, Swan Hill, Mystic Park, Kerang, Cohuna, Torrumbarry, Echuca, Moama, Kyabram, Mooroopna and Shepparton.
In July this year Nextgen completed a trial of 100Gbps per wavelength services on a portion of the RBBP Broken Hill link. It says that 100Gbps services are now operating across the entire link.
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