About the Internode domestic IP network
Our domestic IP network currently extends to all major capital cities within Australia. Controlling our own private IP network means we can provide our customers with high quality, high performance connectivity to the Internet within Australia.
Domestic network highlights
- Points of presence (PoP's) are located in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Hobart.
- Cross-connected, geographically independent PoP's in most capital cities provide redundancy. Each major PoP is capable of sustaining the full load of our customer base in that region. Which means that in the event of a failure at one PoP, connectivity is still available through the second PoP, keeping downtime to a minimum.
- We connect to Internet 'peering' exchanges across the country including: PIPE Networks in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney; Equinix in Sydney; and WAIX in Perth.
- We 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, which include: many of Australia's Universities, the CSIRO and other research networks.
- Our domestic network is based on a two-level hierarchy, starting with an optical SDH layer using Cisco ONS carrier switching equipment, offering carrier grade protected switching circuits across the country. The optical switching layer powers an MPLS IP backbone network, based on Cisco GSR 12000 series routers, located across Australia and in our international PoP's in the United States.
- Connectivity to our International network is from two PoP's in Sydney and one in Perth, providing geographical redundancy for International connectivity.
More Information
- Download a map of Internode's domestic IP network (PDF)
- Learn about Internode's International IP network
About the Internode domestic SDH network
The Internode SDH Network is the domestic heart of our IP Network. It provides a carrier grade, Tier-1, optical backbone between most capital cities around Australia, with over 10 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 and Gigabit 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.
Our SDH network also has in-built redundancy, with dual, geographically separate 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.
