Media Articles Archive 2010

NextGen Networks has clinched a “substantial” contract to supply high-capacity transmission services to VHA, part of the mobile operator’s recently announced major network investment.
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Leighton is cementing its position as a wholesale competitor to Telstra, with subsidiary Nextgen signing commercial contracts to sell services on a 6000-kilometre government-funded fibre-optic highway.
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Fibre-optic backbone specialist Nextgen Networks has installed over 8000km of its own fibre across Australia, but its current role as prime contractor for the government's 6000km Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP) has given it a high profile in the National Broadband Network (NBN) roll-out, especially now that the provider has reached its halfway point.
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In an Australian first, Nextgen Networks has demonstrated 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) integration between IP and optic equipment over its fibre-optic network.
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The telecommunications industry is now entering the 100 gigabit-per-second era, with Moore's Law now coming into play for optical networking, according to Nextgen Networks and its vendor partner Alcatel Lucent.
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Fox Sports will tap its high-speed fibre network to deliver more sports events online and in 3D next year as the content producer pushes its credentials at the time when the major sports codes are deciding their broadcast futures.
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Nextgen Networks has invested “tens of millions of dollars” to develop the capability to transfer data at speeds of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) over its network, as it targets Google and other content providers to underpin its push to become a leading player in the nation's high-speed broadband future.
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Nextgen Networks has demonstrated IP traffic running at 100 Gbps across a fibre optic test network of the kind being deployed for the Government's $250 million backhaul blackspot program.
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The political tussle over how much speed is enough to sate consumers of a future national broadband network has intensified after infrastructure provider and Leighton subsidiary Nextgen Networks said it would use rates of 100Gbps to service regional black spots.
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An additional 2,000km of Competitive Fibre Network Now on its way for Regional Australia. Nextgen Networks (‘Nextgen’) announced that it will complement its national network reach and the Australian Government’s Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (‘RBBP’) with the construction of an additional 2,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable.
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