James Riley
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:57
IT Policy -
Regulation
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Construction of the Hobart-based network operations centre (NOC) that will be used as the Tasmania NBN Company's interim control platform is nearing completion and has moved to a test phase.
The NOC, which Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told the Senate would house the NBN engineers to centrally control the operation of the fibre network throughout Tasmania, has been built and tailored by FTTP specialist provider Opticomm.
Tasmania NBN Company executive chairman Doug Campbell said the Derwent Park-based operations centre was an interim solution, a modest operation that would service the early build stages of the NBN in Tasmania.
Network operations would ultimately switch over the parent NBN company's Melbourne-based NOC, probably in 2011, Campbell said.
In the meantime, the Opticomm-managed NBN Tasmania NOC would switch-over its NBN management to another Opticomm network management facility in Perth on weekends and outside of peak network hours.
"As the Minister pointed out, that network operations centre is pretty much complete now and is in test phase as we speak," Campbell told iTWire. "It will continue in that test phase for some months yet, until we get to turning on real customers in July."
The Hobart NOC is an interim arrangement, pending the ability of NBN Co to take over the Tasmania operation, Campbell said.
