Long haul consists of individual fibre services connected by customer owned amplification equipment at selected Telstra InfraCo Fixed Network Sites, leveraging our InfraCo Building Access (IBA) product, which provides secure and scalable rack colocation and power.

According to Telstra InfraCo to date, Dark Fibre has been limited to paths that are less than 100km or the interfaces that customers are willing to utilise in their equipment - and now, Long Haul provides more options and customer control across long distance routes enabling customers to manage their own amplification throughout these paths.

“Long Haul is a part of the evolution of data products that Telstra offers and an exciting addition to InfraCo’s infrastructure offerings that will boost connectivity to and within non-capital cities,” says Kathryn Jones, Telstra InfraCo Fibre Executive.

Jones says Telstra InfraCo Long Haul is a stepping stone in Telstra T25 growth ambitions and will be a core offering on InfraCo’s Intercity network, which is currently under construction.

Telstra InfraCo Dark Fibre services are part of Telstra InfraCo Long Haul are hard spliced end to end between all Service Delivery Points to minimise attenuation losses.

Telstra InfraCo notes that Long Haul can offer diversity when used in conjunction with Managed Data Products such as Managed Ethernet or Wavelength, to cater for customers with multifaceted network requirements.

“Our standard Long Haul product offering comprises of multiple initial predefined paths across Sydney to Wollongong via Miranda Exchange and Melbourne to Geelong via Werribee Exchange. Some examples of predefined Long Haul use cases include however are not limited to; Equinix SY1(Sydney) to Equinix SY7(Wollongong) and NextDC S1 (Sydney) to Wollongong NBN POI,” concludes Telstra InfraCo.