back to article Ericsson to roll Ciena kit into Telstra

Ericsson's February 2014 agreement with Ciena has paid off in Australia, with the two to work on a major optical network upgrade for incumbent Telstra. Beyond Ericsson's canned announcement, details of the upgrade are sketchy, but the carrier is keen to get its hands on Ciena's 100 Gbps packet-optical system which Ericsson …

  1. Dramoth

    Less latency...

    Hang on a second. How can Telescum (AKA Telstra) even consider something like this while the NLP are in power. Those luddites are trying to kill the Internet in Australia by killing the NBN and anything else that even remotely looks like high speed internet. Instead of my house being eligible for the NBN next year, I think that we are now due to get it some time in 2020.

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