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Telstra to Deliver Teleport
Services for OneWeb in Australia
March 22, 2022
Telstra is expanding its presence
in the rapidly growing satellite telecommunications
market, building and maintaining three new dedicated
teleports across Australia to provide satellite gateway
services for OneWeb in the Southern Hemisphere.
The first of the new teleports,
located in Darwin Tivendale, is scheduled to begin
installation this month with go-live planned in July.
Two further sites – Charlton Toowoomba and Wangara,
Perth, WA – are planned for completion later in 2022.
Each facility will provide turnkey ground station
support for OneWeb’s growing fleet of low-earth orbit
(LEO) satellites.
These facilities are being
delivered as part of a 10-year deal between Telstra and
OneWeb. Telstra’s turnkey approach for OneWeb includes
designing, building and activating the teleports with
ground station capabilities to meet OneWeb’s
requirements. Telstra will also provide 24/7 monitoring
and quality assurance services at each location.
“OneWeb had exacting requirements
from the outset, and we worked in close partnership with
them from site selection through construction,” said
Vish Vishwanathan, Vice President Wholesale & Satellite,
Telstra Americas. “Teleports are complex sites involving
access to secure and resilient infrastructure and
on-the-ground expertise, which Telstra has provided to
OneWeb throughout this project.”
Telco providers typically own and
operate significant terrestrial and subsea assets,
including fiber networks, IP backbones and data centers.
These resources provide the critical ground service
required to support satellite operators’ growing
constellations, reduce their costs of entry into new
markets and minimize the need for personnel to maintain
their own terrestrial infrastructures.
“Low Earth Orbit satellite
technology is transforming the global connectivity
landscape, not only by creating new business
opportunities, but also giving more businesses,
communities and governments the internet access they
need for progress,” said Michele Franci, Chief of
Delivery and Operations at OneWeb. “More connectivity
options benefit everyone and our approach in
establishing strategic partnerships with experienced
providers like Telstra is core to how we deliver the
OneWeb mission.”
OneWeb has two-thirds of its
constellation launched and is providing coverage above
the 50th parallel North - reaching areas that have
historically been hard to connect with distributed
communities and challenging terrain. This includes
Alaska, Canada, and the wider Arctic Region.
Earlier in March, OneWeb signed an
MOU with Telstra to explore new connectivity solutions
for Australia and the Asia pacific regions.
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