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| Picking Up Speed | 03 Dec 2004 |
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| (Source: The Advertiser 03/12/04)
ADAM Internet is installing a next-generation broadband network that can provide internet speeds up to 15 times faster than those currently available. The South Australian internet service provider will announce today it is installing DSLAM (digital subscriber line access multiplexer) exchanges at 24 locations around Adelaide. Managing director Scott Hicks said the network could deliver data transfer speeds of up to 28 megabytes per second, compared with the usual capped rate of 1.5 Mbps for ordinary broadband. Connections will be up to 500 times faster than dial-up internet access. Mr Hicks said the $9.6 million project known as AdamDirect would provide uncongested bandwidth at any time of the day. The DSLAM exchanges allow data to be transmitted at high speed on copper wire phone lines, and return data flows through ETSA Telecoms' optical-fibre network. Mr Hicks said the infrastructure would bring South Australia up to speed with some of the best broadband services in the world. "By owning our own infrastructure, we are free from the artificial restrictions imposed by the major telecommunications carriers,'' he said. He said many Asian countries had enjoyed a minimum of 6Mbps broadband access but Australian businesses had been constrained by typical broadband speeds of between 256kbps and 1.5Mbps. In a project called CommunityNet, Adam customers linked to the same exchange could transfer data between themselves free of charge. Mr Hicks said this would allow free broadband-based phone calls in the local area. The first 24 exchanges were expected to be finished by March and services would come online as individual exchanges were completed. |
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