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VIRTUALISATION Telstra to quadruple capacity on Sydney-Melbourne fibre
VIRTUALISATION Telstra to quadruple capacity on Sydney-Melbourne fibre | Telstra to quadruple capacity on Sydney-Melbourne fibre |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 13 July 2009 | |
  
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Telstra has indicated that it will apply the upgrade to all wavelengths. Michael Rocca, group managing director Telstra Networks & Services, said: "Upon completion in March 2010, we expect these will be the fastest and highest capacity transmission links available in Australia, providing four times the capacity available today and helping keep Telstra customers head and shoulders ahead above the rest for many years to come." He added: "In the past five years, IP traffic on the inter-capital routes has grown tenfold and while this is not having any detrimental impact on our customers, it is imperative that we keep ahead of the surge in demand for the carriage of voice, data and video." The upgrade announcement comes two years after Ericsson announced that it had trialled the technology on Telstra's Sydney-Melbourne fibre, in what it claimed was a world first and 12 months after Ericsson announced commercial deployment of the technology in Deutsche Telekom's network, which led iTWire to predict that a similar announcement in regard to Telstra's network would not be long in coming.
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