Telstra Dark Fibre

Discover your potential on our network

Telstra Dark Fibre is an unlit fibre optic pair running between two points, an A site and a B site. This fibre becomes active and transmits data when connected to your transmission equipment, giving you control over your network.

Introduction

Telstra is opening access to one of Australia's largest and most diverse telecommunications infrastructure portfolios. Partners and enterprises can create flexible, hyper-scale local infrastructure presence, and build out-of-the-ordinary solutions for extraordinary outcomes.

Key features

With low latency and the ability to support high speeds, Dark Fibre grants you the power to meet your business’ changing needs. Discover unlimited potential with Australia’s most extensive and growing fibre footprint to create your own digital infrastructure.

Dedicated Fibre Connection

Routes are exclusively used by yourself ensuring the ultimate performance and capacity at the highest level of security

Per Fibre Pair

Each pricing/quote includes 2 fibre pairing

Customisable

By bringing your own equipment, you have the flexibility to configure your network your way

Benefits

Security

Telstra Dark Fibre provides greater privacy and security by allowing customers to control their own active equipment and data transmission over exclusive dark fibre pairs.

Performance

Telstra Dark Fibre allows customers to optimise their network for speed requirements by choosing the protocols and equipment that meet their business needs. The network design prioritises resiliency, with point-to-point fibre offering lower latency and exclusive dark fibre links. The target uptime availability is 99.95% (excluding scheduled maintenance).

Cost

Optimise costs on high bandwidth routes with Telstra Dark Fibre. Benefit from a lower price point compared to managed services, making it ideal for very high bandwidth use cases. Plus, leasing fibre ensures more predictable costs over the term of the contract.

Term 3 or 5 years

Know what you’re paying with the benefit of fixed term pricing, making your monthly costs more predictable

Expertise you can trust

Experience the same powerful network that powers Telstra’s data services, supported by our trusted service and sales experts

How it works

Our products are designed with flexibility and customisation in mind, ensuring they can perfectly fit the unique needs of your business. Find out more about how Telstra Dark Fibre works by downloading the Dark Fibre datasheet below.

More about

About Telstra InfraCo

Telstra InfraCo support operations of all shapes and sizes. Whether it’s multi-national businesses operating from Sydney to San Francisco, or remote outback communities, our network helps us all grow. We provide infrastructure solutions to the telecommunications industry, satellite operators, data centres and other key industries. We are committed to opening up newer and easier ways for customers to access our infrastructure portfolio.

With digital infrastructure as diverse as our landscape, we connect Australians across the country and around the globe.

Case studies

Fugro shares the benefits of leasing in a Telstra Fixed Network Site

Telstra InfraCo provides Fugro with leased space in a Fixed Network Site in the centre of Perth from where Fugro conducts its remote operations – piloting vessels at sea which are thousands of kilometres away. The highly redundant, well networked, and secure site provides Fugro with the confidence it needs to conduct its world leading remote management services.

Footage: Camera pans across an evocative cityscape at speed with moody afternoon light. We cut to close up details of building architecture from a variety of angles.

Audio: Piano music crescendos. 

Footage: Shot of Telstra Fixed Network Site, Perth WA, then a person in an office speaking directly to camera accompanied by the title, Mark Wilson, Project Delivery manager, Fugro Australia. 

Mark Wilson voiceover: The remote operations centre here within the Telstra building enables us to provide assurance for our clients that we’re operating on a 24/7 basis, without the risk of losing connectivity, which is the most important thing for us when we’re operating remote assets that are totally uncrewed. 

Footage: Montage of Fugro boat on open sea and employee monitoring the boat from a computer screen. We then cut to a new person speaking directly to camera from a control room, accompanied by the title, Stefan Haliczenko, Remote Operations Superintendent, Fugro Australia. 

Stefan Haliczenko voiceover: Fugro Australia’s core business varies from providing geodata to construction, offshore oil and gas, the renewables market and we’re moving into the space industry as well.

Footage: Montage of Fugro boats, oil and construction vessels, wind farms and a space shuttle. 

Mark Wilson voiceover: We’ve worked with Telstra InfraCo for a number of years. Previously, we were based out of the Gnangara Centre. We’ve moved here now into the Telstra Exchange Centre in the centre of Perth, which offers a much more accessible location for our staff to be operating the assets remotely.  

Stefan Haliczenko voiceover: We’re looking at the bridge of the vessel – 2,000 kilometres away from where the vessel is actually located, on the northwest shelf. So, at the moment, these pictures are all live – we’ve got about 16 channels of video coming in from the vessel. We’ve got three cameras onboard the underwater vehicle plus the other sensor payload that’s on it at the moment. Our risk tolerance is as close to zero as possible. The last thing we want to do is lose a vessel, so being at a facility like this provides us the redundancy, the power, the communication systems and security and a central location for our staff. 

Footage: Montage of Perth street, Fugro control room filled with giant screens, operators monitoring the vessels onscreen, underwater footage, Telstra building from above, data rooms and employees in a café chatting. We then cut to a new person speaking directly to camera, accompanied by the title, Alison Holton, Telstra InfraCo Property Manager.

Alison Holton voiceover: Telstra InfraCo has many buildings across Australia that are ideally suited to the types of tenants that are looking for an office area, a secure data centre space, they could be a remote operations centre, or even a cyber security operating centre. They have low latency connectivity, they’re highly secure and we have power of resilience already in place for our building services. 

Footage: Montage of a range of Telstra InfraCo buildings from all angles. Cut back to Stefan. 

Stefan Haliczenko voiceover: We didn’t look elsewhere. Telstra provided us ‘yes’ answers all along the way. They have been a great partner in the sense that they were the ones who were able to provide us with the communications and no one else has the same facilities and infrastructure. 

Footage: Montage of Fugro operations on land, at sea and in the control centre. Cut back to Mark. 

Mark Wilson voiceover: The benefits for both Fugro and Telstra, having us located in the remote operations centre are already coming to fruition, where you see other government agencies moving into this building. We’re also looking at expanding our operations given the business need. 

Cut to end screen featuring Telstra InfraCo and Fugro logos. 

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Why Telstra

Extensive connections across Australia

Access high performance connectivity and thousands of fixed network sites across Australia.

Decades of expertise

With vast experience across design, construction, customisation, protection and project management, we know what works on the ground.

Carrier neutral

We have carrier neutral services and facilities, so you can mix and match connectivity to suit your unique requirements.

Sustainable operations

We weave sustainability through our business practices, including responsible business partnerships and environmental initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint.

Getting started

Register here and we’ll get back to you to discuss Telstra Dark Fibre for your business. Alternatively, you can reach out to your Telstra Client Manager for more information.