Internode going to the extreme

Peter Dinham
Sunday, 29 November 2009 09:55

IT Industry - Market

Hot on the heels of winning three major awards, including topping national customer satisfaction surveys of all ISPs, national broadband company Internode has announced it is rolling out a doubling of its Extreme SHDSL coverage to more than 24 key business exchanges across the country.

Internode product manager Jim Kellett, said the reach of its symmetric high-speed digital subscriber line (SHDSL) service would be more than doubled in the New Year, with the rollout commencing in the first quarter to include seven new exchanges in Adelaide, six more in Melbourne and four more in Sydney.

According to Kellett, there has been strong demand for the extreme SHDSL service and “sales have accelerated” in the eight months since it was launched in April this year, and he claimed there had been “strong demand from specific industry segments beyond the information technology sector.” 

“For example we have law firms using Extreme SHDSL for IP videoconferencing to share expertise between offices, construction firms who need to move large CAD files and medical practices using high-speed symmetrical broadband for diagnostic imaging.”

Kellett says the high level of demand has justified extending the reach of the extreme SHDSL which delivers both downstream and upstream Internet access at guaranteed speeds from five to 40 Mbps.

“The fully-symmetrical broadband service has appealed strongly to businesses that have outgrown the uplink capacity of their ADSL2+ Internet connection, but find optical fibre Ethernet alternatives too expensive.

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