Aussie Broadband on the Final Phase of QLD Dark Fibre Development

Aussie Broadband’s dark fibre footprint in Queensland is already in the final stages of construction with the first stage of the build completed. The first stage includes a loop around the Brisbane CBD and a second loop around Woolloongabba and South Brisbane.

CTO John Reisinger said, “We’re at the tail end of our Queensland fibre build and we’re on track to having that leg of the build completed on schedule and within budget.” 

“Our fibre is in the ground in Gold Coast and Brisbane’s local government areas, and we’re working our way to Ipswich and Petrie.”

“We’ve rolled out multiple 100G links to the POIs that we have connected. The build has seen us strategically splicing multiple cores towards data centres and customer areas to speed up provisioning when an order is placed. This will significantly reduce delivery time frames, resulting in quicker connections.”

The telco has worked with multiple delivery partners on the Queensland fibre build including Netcom Fibre Optics, Optilinx, Customized Drilling Services, Bentline, and Zarafa Group.

“We have just over 236km of Aussie fibre already laid and connected to POIs and data centres throughout Queensland,” Reisinger also said.

“Our fibre is located in strategic CBD locations throughout Brisbane and Gold Coast, which will make it easier to connect to business customers.”

According to Aussie Broadband CEO Phil Britt, the company further plans to heavily utilise automation in the delivery of dark fibre services to partners and customers. In this case, the company is concentrating on the development of its Carbon automation platform that is aimed to enable all its products to be sold and managed through the platform. 

“Carbon was all about providing the automation that we do [internally] to our customers and passing that through,” Britt said.

“So if you’re having a really big night and there's a big Call of Duty update or something, it will go through and it will deal with hundreds and hundreds of CVC upgrades, and then punch all the configs back to the routers and things like that. It’s the only way we’ve been able to manage [CVC costs],” he also said.

Meanwhile, according to Netcom Fibre Optics director Bryan Cameron, he was delighted to partner with Aussie “to provide high-performing connectivity” to Queensland.

“It has been an exciting and rewarding experience for us to be a part of this venture, working with Aussie to achieve a new high-speed fibre network. We really feel part of the team and have achieved so much together over the last 12 months,” Cameron said.