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Australia - Telco Company Profiles - Optus - The Network
Paul Budde Communication Pty Ltd, Aug 2011, Pages: 14
The Optus Customer Access Network comprises a fibre and HFC network.
The fibre network serves major business customers via Optus laid fibre in all capital cities, major suburban business districts and major regional centres, and also provides transmission capacity between the Optus network facilities (exchanges and fibre access nodes) and to many of Optus DSLAM sites.
The HFC network is a wholly Optus owned network used for telephony, high-speed data and pay television to residential, non-business, customers.Digital switching facilities have been constructed in major cities, with fibre optic cable linking these exchanges. The company also has satellite facilities. The company operates 4 mobile networks across Australia with 97% population coverage in 2011.
In 2011 Optus is moving ahead with technology updates to its networks. It is continuing the trialling of LTE technology in the 1800MHz spectrum. Attracting businesses to use cloud-based services over the IP network have been launched and in early 2011 the company announced that a new satellite Optus 10 would be built and launched in 2013.
In this report we provide an overview of the company network operations – HFC, the mobile Open Network, fibre and satellite operations.
Companies and technologies mentioned
Companies mentioned in this report include – Telstra, SingTel, Exetel, AUSTAR, Woolworths, Pacnet, ONEmobile, Amaysim, People, M2, FOXTEL. Technologies mentioned include – ADSL, HFC, DWDM, WAP, GPRS, PTT, VoIP, VSAT.
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