Photos: Inside Basslink's undersea fibre converter station

By Ry Crozier on Jul 23, 2009 11:30 AM
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First photos from the Loy Yang converter station and terrestrial fibre build.

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One week after Basslink's official launch of its subsea fibre cable in Georgetown, Tasmania, iTnews has secured the first pictures from inside the Loy Yang converter station in Victoria and of the terrestrial fibre rollout connecting it to Traralgon (see photo gallery right).

Basslink is the first non-Telstra fibre optic cable to operate across Bass Strait.

iTnews reported that ISPs including Internode and Exetel began testing the cable in the first week of July.

Internode has signed a three-year contract with Basslink for an initial data capacity of 622 megabits per second.

The ISP expects this to increase to more than one gigabit within the first year.

Other ISPs including Netspace and iiNet have also been in early negotiations for capacity.


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"Why the concern re a cable? - its not the final installation!"
By kawasakiboy
 
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Comments: 5
anthonywr
Jul 23, 2009 7:44 PM
 Wow, its surprising they allowed media, considering how messy that cabling is. And I hope that fiber spanning 6 racks isnt very important!
peterniss
Jul 24, 2009 8:58 AM
 Whats the deal with the high voltage power stuff in the pics? Isn't this a fiber link with a few racks etc at each end? Did someone just through these in or is it a substantial long term investment of electricity to these coastal relay points? That switchyard is not small.
rycrozier
Jul 24, 2009 9:58 AM
 @peterniss Basslink is also a subsea electricity transmission route. The fibre came after.
NumbNuts2009
Jul 24, 2009 12:22 PM
 @anthonywr
From what I can see, the cable's running to the beige monitoring device.
kawasakiboy
Jul 24, 2009 2:52 PM
 Why the concern re a cable? - its not the final installation!
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