Emerson Network Power has won a $100m plus contract to build 10 'network facilities centres' around Australia for NBN Co that will house network management equipment, and core network equipment for the wireless and satellite networks and provide facilities for NBN staff. There will be two facilities in each of the main capital cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide - and the entire project is due to be completed in 12 months. They will also be part of NBN Co's transit backhaul network that will provide backhaul from its fibre access nodes that do not have access to competitive backhaul. Where there is competitive backhaul the fibre access node will be a Pol for access seekers. The network however will connect to all FANs/PoI to carry NBN Co's signalling and network management traffic. Emerson will supply the structures and the power and cooling systems for the centres and will be responsible for their design and construction - sites will be a mixture of brownfield and greenfield locations.
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