Telstra’s capacity on Sydney-Melbourne fibre link doubled

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Fibre-optic link between Sydney and Melbourne has been boosted by Australian fixed line incumbent Telstra, doubling the capacity to 40Gbps. Then telco also revealed its plan to perform similar upgrades on other major inter-city routes this year. Ericsson carried out the upgrade work.

Telstra COO Michael Rocca claimed that traffic on the Sydney-Melbourne link was doubling every year.

According to Sam Saba, CEO of Ericsson Australian and New Zealand, the improvements made to the link would enable Telstra to offer customers an improved service with minimal investment and changes to infrastructure.