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Ipera has an extensive fibre network in the Newcastle CBD, and can also offer dark fibre in Sydney, Brisbane & Melbourne though its relationships with other carriers. This fibre infrastructure enables us to offer Dark Fibre, Wavelength and Managed Ethernet services.

Dark fibre is unlit optical fibre connecting two points that carriers and end customers can purchase and then “light up” with their own equipment. Ipera primarily offers dark fibre to other carriers seeking to establish a point of inter-connect at Ipera and extend their reach to customers on the Ipera fibre network. Customers purchasing dark fibre can choose to terminate the fibre with standard 1310nm wavelength equipment (Such as an Ethernet SFP), or if more bandwidth is required you can light the fibre with multiple wavelengths using WDM (Wave Division Multiplexing) equipment.

Dark fibre is an “unmanaged” service, and we are unable to monitor your specific fibre, however we do monitor one fibre in each run and can notify you in the rare event of a service outage. For most sites Ipera can offer route diversity and you can build network protection into your design right from the start.

Wavelength services can be compared to a “Virtual Dark Fibre”. Using WDM technology, Ipera can multiplex services from multiple clients over a single fibre pair. In effect Wavelength services are the same as dark fibre, however you can only use the 1310nm wavelength and your service will run at whatever speed your order. A wide range of layer 2 protocols are supported including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SHD and more.

Ipera can provide both course and dense wavelengths, with course wavelengths having a maximum capacity of 2.5Gb/sec, while dense wavelengths can offer speeds of up to 10Mb/sec.

Wavelength services are a managed service, and at most sites options are available for physical and logical path diversity.

Wavelength services are ideal for corporate and government clients that need to connect a primary site to a backup site. A common requirement is to have a Gigabit Ethernet service for connecting network devices and a 1 or 2Gbps Fibre Channel service connecting Storage Area Networks (SAN’s) for data mirroring.  Larger scale operations may wish to have the same services duplicated over separate paths. Ipera’s pricing policy for multiple services and multiple paths makes building best practice backup solutions very cost effective.