TransACT to upgrade Canberra fibre network

 

Big capacity boost from early next year.

TransACT will add half a terabit-per-second to its fibre network capacity as part of a network upgrade.

It would allow the Canberra utility to "support thousands more new services", meet "ever-growing demand" and offer higher levels of service assurance, said chief executive officer Ivan Slavich.

It was expected to be completed by early next year.

TransACT offered metro and point-to-point Ethernet services over its fibre network at symmetrical speeds between 5 Mbps and 10 Gbps.

It catered to backhaul of TransACT's access equipment including their GPON optical line termination units and VDSL2 DSLAMs.

Chief technology officer Wayne Bouffler said the company chose a "fully-managed 10G H-VPLS [Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service] edge" system from vendor Telco Systems for the upgrade.

H-VPLS fixed the scalability issues of VPLS, which allowed carrier-class services to be deployed over an Ethernet network.

"The selected solution will enable TransACT to cost-effectively scale their network and expand services to business customers by extending VPLS to the access," Telco Systems said.

"It is based on Telco Systems' T-Marc demarcation devices which reside at the customer premise, and T-Metro 7124 aggregation switches which collect the customer traffic and map them into H-VPLS services in the access network.

"T-Metro 7224 10Gig service switches act as a full provider edge switch handling most of the VPLS switching while maintaining QoS and SLA, offloading many of these tasks from the core switch."

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TransACT to upgrade Canberra fibre network
"TransACT is not as great as it sells. Take a close look at the TrasACT network and you will see an overpriced service that reaches only a small percentage of premises for high speed connections. ..."
By Mark D
 
 
 
Comments: 3
RS
Aug 27, 2010 10:12 PM
Half a terabyte, eh? Sounds like they're buying $70 worth of USB Hard Drive. Perhaps half-a-terabit-per-second was a better description.
rycrozier
Aug 27, 2010 11:07 PM
Yes. Yes it would :) Thanks RS.
Mark D
Aug 28, 2010 12:15 AM
TransACT is not as great as it sells. Take a close look at the TrasACT network and you will see an overpriced service that reaches only a small percentage of premises for high speed connections. Not only do you have to pay for extremely overpriced line fee's however your data is on top of that. To top it off its common practice for TransACT and their ISP's to play hot potato with customers blaming each other for service faults.

With companies like iiNet and TPG offering 1TB/month on ADSL2+ under $100. Its a no brainer.
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