Telstra to invest AU$250m in network

Telstra chief operating officer saint Penn has proclaimed that the telecommunications big are finance AU$250 million in its network over future six to twelve months within the wake of its series of outages earlier this year.

"Over the past few months, we've toughened some network interruptions that have wedged you, our customers," Penn wrote on the Telstra Exchange web log on Wednesday morning.

"I am scripting this note these days to update you on what we have a tendency to square measure continued to try to to to handle these problems. In May, we have a tendency to proclaimed the results of a review into our mobile network. we have a tendency to square measure terribly advanced in implementing the recommendations from that review. we've additionally recently completed associate degree end-to-end review of our core network and IT systems, pinpointing sources of potential risk.

"As a results of this work, we'll be finance AU$250 million from our existing capital program, inside our fifteen % capex to sales quantitative relation, over future six to twelve months to supply a better degree of network resilience and improved network performance."

The investment are created in 3 major areas: The antecedently mentioned AU$50 million to be spent on rising mobile network resiliency by making higher time period watching and rushing up recovery time; AU$100 million on increasing the core fixed-line network's reliableness and resiliency; and AU$100 million on upping its ADSL broadband capability to deal with demand.

Mike Wright, Telstra cluster manager of Networks, aforementioned the fixed-line outlay can largely go towards increasing redundancy and using newer network technologies.

"We've had an honest check up on resilience and the way we will truly place accrued levels of redundancy within the core that is already extremely redundant, however we glance at areas wherever we will even improve that for a few of the acute cases, as a result of what we're very making an attempt to try to to is defend against events that may happen on the network," Wright told media on Wednesday afternoon.

"And the opposite space wherever we're trying to try to to is we're truly planning to bring forward some next-generation technologies and acquire them into the core network earlier, as a result of we all know those technologies will scale plenty a lot of quickly, they need higher instrumentation, and that we assume they will provide U.S.A. slightly of suggests that with creating the core network a lot of reliable."