Critical.
Authoritative.
Strategic.
Subscribe to CIO Magazine »

NBN satellite ground station to be built at Ceduna

A third satellite ground station has been announced for the National Broadband Network.

Ceduna in South Australia has been announced as the location for another satellite ground station for the National Broadband Network (NBN).

The ground station will help facilitate the NBN’s long-term satellite service and is expected to be operational by 2015.

The satellite ground station will provide the NBN to towns such as Chinta, Koonibba, Athenna and Goode in South Australia.

NBN Co is constructing 10 satellite ground stations around Australia and will provide the NBN at speeds of up to 12Mbps.

Satellite ground stations have also previously been announced for Geeveston, Tasmania; Bourke in NSW; and Wolumla, near Merimbula on the South Coast of NSW.

An Interim Satellite Service is currently providing the NBN in some areas, with speeds up to 6/1Mbps.

Construction for the NBN has already commenced or been completed on round 27,100 premises in South Australia. Around 327,300 premises will have commenced or completed construction of the NBN in South Australia by 2015.

Follow Stephanie McDonald on Twitter: @stephmcdonald0

Follow Computerworld Australia on Twitter: @ComputerworldAU

Recommended

  1. Mixing with marketing: The CIO-CMO partnership

  2. Profitable future for data centre services market: report

  3. More Australians are using mobiles to connect to ...

    CMO

Join the CIO Australia group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.

References show all
Comments are now closed.
Related Whitepapers
Latest Stories
Community Comments
Latest Blog Posts
Whitepapers
  • The Foundation for Cloud Management
    For businesses looking to provide real-time business solutions to employees and customers alike, you need to have a comprehensive network management strategy. The network is the foundation of all successful cloud services; it must be robust to meet traffic, efficiency, and performance demands. Download today the four steps to get your network operations cloud-ready.
    Learn more »
  • Deploying Flash in the Enterprise
    Flash is quickly emerging as the preferred way to overcome the nagging performance limitations of hard disk drives. However, because flash comes at a significant price premium, outright replacement of HDDs with flash only makes sense in situations in which capacity requirements are relatively small and performance requirements are high. Learn how deployment approaches-including hybrid storage arrays, server flash, and all-flash arrays-that combine the performance of flash with the capacity of HDDs can be cost effective for a broad range of performance requirements.
    Learn more »
  • Customer Success - Slater & Gordon Lawyers
    Lawyers work hard, and they work fast. Any activity that takes their focus away from the task at hand represents lost productivity and lost revenue. Slater & Gordon Lawyers needed to filter spam and email-borne malware and provide high availability for email. Results from the business solution they chose include 250 hours of IT staff time reclaimed annually for other tasks, long delays in email delivery alleviated, reduced email-related storage costs, and email failover to the cloud in minutes, avoiding hours-long outages. Find out how they got these results.
    Learn more »
All whitepapers
rhs_login_lockGet exclusive access to Invitation only events CIO, reports & analysis.
Recent comments