Broadband network services at around 400 Air Force, Navy and Army sites across Australia are to be provided by NBN Co, the company building the National Broadband network, through a new partnership with the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
Under the partnership, which commenced the programme in September, the sites are being upgraded with the NBN access network and personnel serving on them will be able to access high-speed broadband.
Construction of the access network for the ADF is designed to provide access to fast broadband to non-operational on-base structures and facilities, which are currently operating a mixture of legacy services including DSL and PSTN services.
Part of the program will include deployment of the NBN network in on-base commercial assets such as cafeterias and shops, which NBN Co says will see the benefits of fast connectivity for conducting business.
{loadposition peter}Works are already underway on delivering the NBN access network to these sites, having begun in September 2017 and the network deployment, like the rest of the rollout, uses the multi-technology-mix including FTTN, FTTB, Satellite, Fixed Wireless and FTTP.
NBN Co says the bulk of work completed to date has been at two priority sites in the NT at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Tindal and Larrakeyah Barracks, incorporating HMAS Coonawarra, and once these sites are complete approximately 20 more sites are to be built before the end of the year.
NBN Co Chief Network Deployment Officer, Kathrine Dyer said: “Deploying the world class NBN access network to those who work to defend our country makes all of us at NBN very proud.
“We are using a variety of NBN technologies at these sites, allowing us to meet the unique challenges of our vast country and also the site specifics of each base.
“Once these works are completed it’s our hope that communication between our military personnel and their families is vastly better.”