Australia’s Northern Territory Government has granted Major Project Status to the $1.5 billion (US$1.08 billion) HyperOne high-speed fibre network, which will directly link Darwin to every capital city in Australia.
According to a media release on Wednesday, the terrestrial fibre network will boast the capacity to carry 10,000 terabits of data per second, more traffic than all other national telecommunications backbones combined, thereby providing a generational upgrade to the NT’s core digital infrastructure.
Australia’s existing backbone is around 2o years old and lacks the capacity to support significant growth.
The HyperOne project will see 20,000 kilometres (12,427 miles) of new high-speed fibre cable laid across Australia, with 2,200 kilometres (1,367 miles) installed in the Territory, creating around 10,000 jobs nationally and 1,000 in the NT.
