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Research and Markets: Australia - National Broadband Network - Infrastructure Plans and Contracts - 2012(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/97t6wg/australia_nation) has announced the addition of the "Australia - National Broadband Network - Infrastructure Plans and Contracts" report to their offering. The National Broadband Network Corporation will have to make the critical architecture and design decision for this open wholesale-only company, which will form the basis of this new infrastructure for at least the next 25 years. The report provides a high level overview of the plans developed by NBN Co as well as strategic peer reviews from overseas. In this report we also discuss issues around technologies such as the Network Operation Centre, the Optical Network Terminal, Points-of-Interconnect and IPTV versus RF Video. The report follows the infrastructure contracts awarded by NBN Co. Key Topics Covered: 1. Synopsis 2. The network plan 2.1 Overall design and architecture 2.2 The backhaul network 2.3 Points-of-interconnect (POI) architecture 3. External analysis of the Australian Fibre-to-the-Home (FttH) architecture 4. NBN Co contracts 4.1 Defect-management solution from Geomatic Technologies 4.2 Transit Network 4.3 End-user equipment 4.4 Network facilities Centres 4.5 Via Sat to supply satellite ground equipment 4.6 Contracts with Transfield and Service Stream 4.7 Construction agreements for SA and NT 4.8 Fibre-optic contracts 4.9 Ericsson to build fixed wireless network 4.10 Network Operations Centre for NBN 4.11 Contractors for first-build sites 4.12 Nokia Siemens Networks selected for DWDM 4.13 Data Centres 4.14 IBM selected as systems integrator 4.15 Site Management 4.16 Internal IT systems 5. Infrastructure Sharing and Coordination 5.1 Smart grids and the NBN 5.2 Is it smart to build massive concrete poles before the NBN 6. Other Technology Issues 6.1 The Optical Network Terminal (ONT) 6.2 IPTV versus IPTV RF 7. FttH Greenfield Market Companies Mentioned - NBN Co - Warren& Brown Technologies - Corning - Alcatel-Lucent - Prysmian - ETSA Utilities - Ergon Energy - Silcar - Transfield Services - Telstra - Nokia Siemens - Global Switch - Polaris Data Centre - IBM - VisionStream Australia - Madison Technologies - Optimal - OFS For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/97t6wg/australia_nation CONTACT: Research and Markets, Laura Wood, Senior Manager. [email protected] Fax from USA: 646-607-1907 Fax from rest of the world: +353-1-481-1716 Sector: Broadband (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/categories.asp cat_id=324&campaign_id=97t6wg) ((M2 Communications disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected])). (c) 2012 M2 COMMUNICATIONS |