Telstra

The “Telstra Corporation Limited” (Telstra) is the primary telecommunications supplier of Australia and the southern Pacific region. Telstra have spent 4 years of preparation, 2 years of project implementation and over $1.5 Billion AU to design, build and provide a fully national IP network. This fully integrated network is known as the Telstra Next IP & Next G networks (Next networks). The business drivers for Telstra to implement the Next networks has come from Governments, large Enterprises and small businesses and their need for a standard fully integrated, more scalable, more reliable, better performing and more secure platform that connects technologies and business practise. Telstra recognised this need and have made a multibillion dollar investment to transform the already offered networks into the Next networks to enable them to support applications that will work through fixed lines and wireless networks across the whole of Australia. This flexible capability is known as “Next Dimension Working” and is how Telstra describes the way in which business will work in the future optimising the Next IP and Next G networks.

The Next networks have been designed to be a real replacement for the current Telstra network with the Next networks providing a world class multilayered core that provides enhanced security and is up to 77 times more scalable and boasting impressive 99.999% reliability. The Telstra Next network is designed to enable customers to have complete partition of their IP network from the public Internet and other customer’s networks. This security is enabled through private infrastructure and at a cheaper cost. The next networks offer reliability through the Ethernet technologies, where IP routers can accomplish transparent fail-over in the case of network disruptions. The performance of the Next networks is vast, flexible and scalable through the powerful Multi Protocol