[LINK] Internode covers Coorong

[Deus Ex Machina]

another example of improper use of government money.

David Boxall [david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au] wrote:
> There are advantages to a wide (flat) brown land, it seems.
> 
> <http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37520&eid=3&edate=20060927>
> Internode covers Coorong
> By Lilia Guan, CRN      27 September 2006 11:01 AEST      Telco/ISP 	
> 
> Internode has blended ADSL2+ broadband with solar-powered microwave 
> towers to deliver broadband coverage for Coorong District Council in 
> South Australia.
> 
> The ISP built a voice and data broadband network that delivers broadband 
> to around 6000 residents and businesses in the 8800 square kilometre 
> area south east of Adelaide.
> 
> In conjunction with the council it built microwave radio towers that 
> deliver Internode Wireless broadband across the Coorong landscape to 
> reach peop0le in smaller townships and on farms.
> advertisement
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Drew, CEO, Coorong District Council, said the Internode network has 
> reduced the council?s voice call and data charges by around $30,000 a 
> year, nearly three times the originally anticipated saving of $11,000 
> per annum.
> 
> ?Many people live well away from major towns or settlements, so they 
> find it hard to access services that are easy for people in town. If 
> they can get high-speed broadband in their homes, it means they don?t 
> have to travel 100km to town,? he said.
> 
> Daryl Knight, national sales manager, Internode said the geography of 
> the area lent itself to deploying the technology.
> 
> ?It?s a wide area which helped when putting up the towers. We designed 
> the network to meet the broadband needs of a low population density in 
> this large area,? he said.
> 
> The Coorong Project was funded by federal, state and local government 
> resources as well as an unspecified cash from Internode.
> 
> Of the 17 towers, 12 are self-powered through the use of $12,000 power 
> systems that feature solar arrays, charge controllers and high capacity 
> batteries.
> 
> These Solar Wireless Access Node (SWAN) towers - designed by Internode - 
> have a battery capacity to run for several days without significant 
> sunlight and are fully remote monitored.
> 
> Internode MD Simon Hackett (pictured) said ?for this project, we built 
> our own backhaul channel to Adelaide, giving us end-to-end control over 
> the costs of our network and the whole network is also independent of 
> Telstra?.
> 
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