Nokia Siemens Networks to enable Australia’s super-fast broadband

Sydney, Australia – 28 October 2010

NBN Co selects equipment and services leader to deploy country’s largest optical data transmission infrastructure.

The company set-up by the Australian government to build and operate the country’s new, nationwide, high-speed National Broadband Network, NBN Co Ltd, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to provide its extensive optical transmission network. Nokia Siemens Networks will deploy its optical network (DWDM) technology to allow NBN Co Ltd to provide nationwide, super-fast broadband. An optical transmission network is the ‘backbone’ of communications infrastructure, providing massive bandwidth to carry huge amounts of information around cities, and across countries and continents. The potential value of the contract is up to AU$400 million over ten years.

Australia’s NBN network is planned to provide broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) initially and 1 gigabits per second (Gbps) in the future to nearly 93% of Australian homes, schools and workplaces.

“Nokia Siemens Networks is a high-quality global and local supplier of equipment and services. Their proven track record in Australia, utilizing local expertise combined with global capability, is a sound starting point in the future of our partnership,” said Kevin Brown, head of Corporate Services, NBN Co Ltd.

“NBN Co wants to build a super-fast broadband network to cater to the current and future network traffic demands,” said Kalevi Kostiainen, head of Australia and New Zealand, Nokia Siemens Networks. “We are committed to providing the best combination of a world-class optical transmission with local expertise that will provide advanced digital services to the entire nation.”

Under the scope of the frame agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will supply its DWDM equipment and management systems. The company will also provide related services including design, logistics, installation, commissioning, local pre-deployment system testing and care.

NBN Co’s transmission network requires connectivity at 10, 40 and 100 Gbps. The network building stage of the project will span for ten years with the bulk of the optical transmission network being rolled out in the first three years.

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Notes to editors:
Nokia Siemens Networks’ DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) solution, which comprises the hiT 7300 and TransNet DWDM planning and automation tool, provides a cost optimized, flexible and automated platform, thereby offering a viable answer to excessive traffic demand, reconfiguration and cost pressure issues. The design principle of the DWDM platform (hiT 7300) is based on high modularity as well as high re-use, thus creating a single platform from metro to core. It also provides network operators with a new level of simplicity for commissioning and maintaining DWDM systems, driving out complexity, while providing complete administrator control. Nokia Siemens Networks’ TransNet end-to-end planning tool provides optimal network design, guaranteed performance and automated configuration, resulting in significant savings in operating costs as well as reduced outage time and procedural errors along with an exceptionally low total cost of ownership.

With 100 DWDM customers around the world, Nokia Siemens Networks provides a migration path to Terabit Optical Transport. With its platform being open to 400Gbps and even more, it also provides scaling capacity for channels of 10/40/100 Gbps.