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“ The Future State Network involves technology , people , processes and culture ”
— Vic McClelland , CTO , Vocus Group acquisitions over the last five years he found plenty of legacy networks and systems to integrate . With more than 30 years ’ experience and having held senior executive positions in Australia and Silicon Valley with major players including Vodafone , Hutchison , Ericsson and Telstra , Russell knew he had the right person .
“ Vocus now has a very extensive fibre network across Australia , between and within the capital cities ,” McClelland explains . “ And we ’ ve also invested in building the Australian Singapore Network , a submarine cable that gives us international submarine capacity out of Australia , up into Asia , and into other countries such as the USA via swaps .” Acquisition at the time of mass consolidation driven by creation of the National Broadband Network some four years ago have given Vocus some amazing Fibre and Network assets .
As expected , acquisition comes with complexity . “ We had around six separate Layer 2 and 3 networks with eight Business Support System ( BSS ) stacks , ll with separate vendors . At that level of complexity and juggling
MAY 2020