Australia's Telecommunications Infrastructure is Advanced and Extensive

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9ba917/australia_teleco)
has announced the addition of the "Australia - Telecommunications
Infrastructure International Networks" report to their offering.

Australia's telecommunications infrastructure is advanced and
extensive, spanning the large island continent and extending across
the Tasman and into Asia. It is these international developments,
including backbones across the Tasman Sea and to Asia and the USA,
both undersea cable and satellite based, that this report covers. In
April 2008 Telstra and technology partner Alcatel-Lucent began landing
the Sydney end of a 9,000 km cable to Hawaii, which will eventually
compete against rivals Southern Cross (currently performing capacity
upgrades), Pipe Networks (which announced a second cable to New
Zealand in April 2008), Australia-Japan Cable (completing upgrades in
April 2008) and the potential for a new cable connection between
Western Australia to Asia. In September 2007 Southern Cross Cable
Network announced it would double capacity connecting Australia, New
Zealand with the US by late 2008.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Synopsis

2. International cable links

2.1 Sydney to Hawaii Cable - Telstra and Alcatel-Lucent

2.2 Pipe Networks

2.2.1 PPC-1 cable from Sydney to Guam

2.2.2 Cable to New Zealand with Kordia - PPC-2

2.3 Southern Cross Cable Network

2.3.1 Network overview

2.3.2 Network upgrade

2.4 Southern Cross to double capacity

2.5 Telstra, Optus and AAPT activities

3. Recent developments

3.1 Google questions Australia's lack of international bandwidth

3.2 Google planning new Pacific Unity undersea cable

4. Other projects

4.1 Australia Japan Cable (AJC)

4.2 Asia Pacific Cable Network (APCN)

5. Regulatory developments

5.1 New permits for submarine cables

6. Satellite services

6.1 Optus satellite network

6.2 Intelsat and Inmarsat

6.3 Xantic

6.4 CapRock Communications

7. Related reports

Exhibit 1 - Telstra submarine projects Exhibit 2 - AAPT
international network Exhibit 3 - The AJC system has six landing
points:Exhibit 4 - The Optus satellite network

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