About the Internode International IP Network

The Internode International IP network currently extends to all major capital cities within Australia, as well as to San Jose and Los Angeles in the United States, and Tokyo in Japan.

In most major cities Internode runs cross-connected, geographically independant points of presence to provide redundancy in our network. Each major point of presence is capable of sustaining the full load of our customer base in that region.

The network uses protected clear-channel STM-1 (155Mbit/sec) and STM-4 (622Mbit/sec) SDH bearer circuits between each capital city and between the United States and Australia. The network delivers a National and International integrated "Quality of Service IP network" which enables Internode to deliver high availability and high quality services to its customers.

Specific services that rely on this capacity and quality for success include our corporate-grade wide area network solution, Internode Business Connect, and our carrier-quality voice over IP service, NodePhone. Naturally the performance of our business and residential broadband Internet services, including latency-sensitive traffic from the Internode Games Network and broadband radio streams, also benefit immensely from carriage over an integrated International IP network.

Network Redundancy

Because of the way that this network is designed, the national and International links, combined with dual-pop architecture also mean we can back up the failure of more than one of our multiple upstream IP transit providers by hauling data back through an alternate POP, or via our national network to another state and hence bypassing the issue.

The Internode International Network also has fail-over capability, which enables the network to 'self-heal' and re-route data via an alternate link in the event of a link failure. International connectivity from Sydney to the United States is via multiple STM-4 (622Mbit/sec) circuits which run on separate segments of the Southern Cross Fibre Optic Cable Network & Australia-Japan Cable Network and land at separate points in both Australia and the United States.

National and International Peering

Internode's International IP network is connected to central Internet "peering" points within Australia in most capital cities. We connect to PIPE Networks in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney. Equinix in Sydney, and WAIX in Perth. We also connect to Equinix in San Jose and Los Angeles in California and in Tokyo, Japan.

Unlike many other providers, we leverage our National and International networks to present access to these peering points to all of our customers across the country. This allows all of our customers to benefit from both our ultra-reliable International network, and our excellent connectivity to other providers via these peering points.

We also peer directly with the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) in many places across the country, this gives our customers the best possible connectivity to AARNet customers (many of Australia's Universities, the CSIRO and other research networks).

International Advantage

The Internode International IP network has over 5 Gigabits per second of dedicated, geographically redundant fibre optic links directly into the United States, as well as almost 1 Gigabit per second of capacity directly to Japan. This gives our customers the best possible International speeds, connectivity and reliablity into the heart of the Internet.

The two Points of Presence in the United States (one in Los Angeles and the other in San Jose) are centred on carrier-class Cisco GSR 12000 routers. Multiple STM-4 (622Mbit/sec) connections via the Southern Cross Cable Network, and via the Australia-Japan Cable Network, independently link these POPs to two separate Sydney Points of Presence, also based on Cisco GSR 12000s. Two more GSR 12000s are located in our Adelaide Data Centres, these link our Adelaide network directly to our International gateways in Sydney.

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About the Internode SDH Network

The Internode SDH Network is the domestic heart of our International IP Network. It provides a carrier grade, Tier-1, optical backbone between most capital cities around Australia, with a total of 4.8 Gigabits per second of optical capacity between the major capital cities (Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney).

Dedicated Capacity

Operating and running a true carrier-grade Tier-1 optical backbone allows Internode to offer customers dedicated national inter-capital capacity, via private links ranging from 10/100Mbit IP services on our IP network, right up to protected clear channel STM-1 (155Mbit/sec) and STM-4 (622Mbit/sec) capacity via our Optical network.

Network Redundancy

As with our IP network, Internode places a high importance on having a redundant network. As a result, our SDH network also has in-built redundancy, with dual, geographically separate 2.4Gbit links between the major capital cities (Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney). This allows the network to instantly 'fail over' during network connectivity disruptions, and divert traffic around the affected cable.

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