Communications minister Stephen Conroy has officially opened NBN Tasmania’s Network Operations Centre as the firm forges on towards its July start date.
Located in Derwent Park, Hobart and operated by Opticomm, the NOC will take customer orders, consolidate connections and control network traffic; it has received its first serving of connection orders in preparation for the switch-on of commercial services. The facility will take some of the load off the Mornington proof-of-concept test centre, which was supporting systems while the NOC was constructed.
“Today’s launch is another important step in the delivery of the NBN in Tasmania,” said Conroy. “In just a few short weeks, residents and businesses in the communities of Midway Point, Smithton and Scottsdale will have access to services under the NBN and the Network Operations Centre is a crucial component of this roll out... I’m pleased with the level of interest that has been shown by people in the first three communities and I am aware that the number of people providing legal consent for NBN Tasmania to run optic fibre to their premises has been encouraging.”
“The NOC is critical to the delivery of the NBN in Tasmania, and it has been successfully completed, as necessary, prior to the provisioning and operation of the first services,” added NBN Tasmania
Executive Chairman Doug Campbell. “NBN Tasmania has conducted a comprehensive community engagement program to support the rollout and gain the property-owner consents needed to connect the network to houses as they are passed. We are very pleased with the response from the communities, and look forward to celebrating the activation of the first commercial services in July.”
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