Telstra has announced it has completed a transmission network upgrade that sees links with minimum speeds of 100Gbps connected to all inter-capital paths and NBN points of interconnect.
The telco said the network is now 11 times faster than before, and touted additional functionality thanks to the use of software-defined networking.
"The new infrastructure provides enormous improvements to the reliability of our networks; for example, we recently introduced a capability into our optical network which now automates the rebuild and migration of services to another path when we experience a network fault such as a fibre break," Telstra Transport IP Core and Edge Engineering Executive Chris Meissner said.
"With the meshed nature of the new optical network, we are able to quickly reconfigure the network to stand up new routing paths within hours to reduce the overall risk of faults -- this is something that previously would have taken days."
Looking ahead, Meissner said Telstra would soon be able to reconfigure the network "within minutes" of a disruption, and enterprise customers would have the enabling of optic wave services reduced from days and weeks to hours.
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