Far South Coast satellite users (outside the fibre and fixed wireless...
It's got terrific infrastructure including access to power and...
The Wolumla long-term satellite ground station will help deliver access...
We want the facility completed in...
"There will be concrete pours before...
down from Sydney (for example)," Mr Dawson said...
to remote communities as part of the overall satellite communications system...
build? "There will certainly be a lot of activity at the site...
exactly made it such a prime location, Mr Dawson explained: "On average - today excluded (!) - the rainfall is much better than further north...
It falls within the satellite design parameters that help us liberate maximum capacity from the satellite system" Asked what...
Once the satellite ground station is...
"But the main feature that will be visible to...
with the Wolumla site...
facilities to be built for the long-term satellite communications service component of the Federal Government's National Broadband Network (NBN)...
"The Wolumla...
high-speed broadband access are fibre optic and fixed wireless...
"They would then...
will be close to the backbone of our transit or core network," he said...
"It will also be our...
the NBN infrastructure,” he said...
satellite There's no point in bringing concrete...
If any of the other nine sites around Australia should fail for whatever reason,...
Towns in the region will eventually receive the NBNCo's...
then we would be switching the traffic from them to the Wolumla site," Mr Dawson said...
disaster recovery or back up site...
the Wolumla site needs to be operational ahead of that launch...
site is critical to us...
construction contracts on a state basis...
the next 18 months or so," Mr Dawson said...
That's all happened...
NBNCo's satellite program director Matt Dawson spoke with the...
station built - the first cab off the rank so to speak...
"We then have to follow the council’s procedures and normal undertakings,...
Magnet on Thursday and explained the importance of the Wolumla site...
NBNCo has been negotiating with the Bega Valley...
undertake all the NSW regional construction...
"The ground station needs to be...
Shire Council about the site for a number of months...
"It may be that we appoint civil...
ready, level it where the building and satellite antenna pads will be...
So what can locals expect of the...
the site in shipping containers and pieced together onsite...
including the usual consultations with the public and conducting due diligence etc...
Other components of the NBN delivering...
align for sites like this to be selected...
"For instance, one prime contractor to...
footprints) won't necessarily receive high-speed broadband through the Wolumla site...
people visiting the site will be the antennae or "dishes"...
NBNCo will be launching two satellites in 2015 and...
built it will be run by specialist engineers...
"A number of planets have to...
"Wolumla will be our first satellite ground...
There will be earth works to start with to make the site...
is about the best way to acquire access to the site...
through fibre optic or fixed wireless services in the future...
the single-storey building structure goes up...
launch the Far South Coast into the space age in coming months...
some sort of agreement with BVSC...
"We have to enter into...
A council-owned site at Wanatta Lane in Wolumla will...
"Part of the discussion we are having with them...
most likely engage local guys...
operational by 2015 when the satellites are launched...
It will form a vital part of...
"They will come from overseas and be transported to...
A number of 13 metre-in-diameter antennas or “dishes” will be installed at the site, making it the first of 10 satellite gateway...