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Forget FTTN - FTCH (Fibre To Canberra Homes) Is Reality |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
There's never any
shortage of talk or promises of bandwidth for all from our Nation's Capital and there's no
shortage of bandwidth either. In the latest supply contract to feed the
Fed's homes with data, local FTTH services provider, TransACT, has
asked Alcatel-Lucent to rollout Fibre to an additional 1000 homes by
2013.
Alcatel-Lucent has the contract for a Greenfields FTTH rollout to
cover 1,000 premises with an anticipated
population of 2,500 people by 2013.
Project developers in Canberra, in conjunction with the Land
Development Agency, issued a tender for the FTTH project last year,
which was
subsequently won by TransACT. Alcatel-Lucent won the competitive
tender, involving eight other providers, to get the job as preferred
technology provider.
The first network project will be in
Forde, a new suburb in Gungahlin, Canberra.
The deployment is TransACT's first venture into Gigabit passive optical
network (GPON) FTTH technology. Residents will receive broadband speeds of up to
30Mbps, subscription television with real-time video on-demand and unlimited
free local calls to over 30,000 other TransACT phone customers, as well as
competitive national and international call rates.
"The FTTH network is now a key
consideration for inclusion when assessing broadband deployments in
suburbs," said Rod Barrett,
Project Manager, TransACT. "We
needed a solutions provider that could accommodate our customers'
increasing demand for our existing bandwidth-hungry product offerings,
including Video on Demand (VoD), Voice over IP (VoIP) and IPTV services. We
chose Alcatel-Lucent because of its technology leadership in GPON and the
proven reliability and scalability of its platform for widespread deployment,"
Barrett added.
"FTTH was the natural progression for a reliable high speed
broadband multiservice network in 'greenfields' and will deliver appreciable
social and economic benefits to a community, said Hilary Mine, Managing
Director, Alcatel-Lucent Australasia. "The TransACT contract
demonstrates our commitment to accelerating high speed broadband services
across the country, and reinforces our global leadership in greenfield and brownfield broadband fibre
deployments," Mine concluded.
Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will deliver its
7342 GPON ISAM Fiber-to-the-User product, along with the Optical Network
Terminals (ONTs) and the related management software.
TransACT will also be working with
Alcatel-Lucent on future FTTH bids in the Canberra
area.
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