I N T E R N E T M AT T E R S
THE SUNSHINE COAST –
better connected than ever WITH IAN ROBSON // SUNRISE INTERNET As a telecommunications carrier in 2021, we can at last see the Sunshine Coast and Noosa regions better connected than ever with over 400 kilometres of world class optic fibre ready to connect. At last, the connectivity of fibre can meet businesses, apartments, resorts and commercial estates without having to use the old copper or wireless. We are not referring to NBN. We are talking about real Gigabit performance without dropouts and congestion that are responsible for holding our regional economy back. This is all about offering reliability, high availability, zero congestion, competitive advantage, and world class standards. These high performing values are about half the price that they were pre-Covid, and they enable the region to address many challenges such as: • The migration of working from offices to regions. • The importance of performing a video conference call. • The critical value of uptime for EFTPOS, e-commerce, VoIP. • Using Cloud computing. • Enabling internet for the new Foxtel services. • Connecting 5G base stations. • Supporting the massive uptake of 4K TVs, media streaming, gaming and telemedicine.
• Feeding the power of the new WIFI 6 modems, designed to deliver gigabit internet around buildings, meeting the expectations of the tsunami of urbanites migrating to the region and holiday makers expecting proper internet. Now that the future is here, how do you go about upgrading higher value high-speed internet?
•D ealing with the higher volume of devices in use concurrently in dwellings and workplaces.
A free audit is a good start. Coverage is now huge and there are plenty of technologies to get ‘fibre speeds to the room’. m
• Enabling Apple updates and gaming.
www.sunriseinternet.com.au
Ian has worked across Australian telecommunications since deregulation in the 1990s as a Management Executive with multinationals Vodafone and Telstra and also as a pioneer in the launch of GSM and Fibre Networks. With an intimate understanding of opportunities and challenges for the Sunshine Coast, he is passionate about enabling change in Australia’s low world ranking in internet performance.
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