Internode
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Internode, founded in 1991 by Managing Director Simon Hackett, is one of Australia’s major Internet Service Providers. The company focuses on primarily on ADSL-based Internet access, but also provides business-class access (Internode Business Connect), web hosting/co-Location, Voice over IP, and a variety of related services.
Internode is based in Adelaide, South Australia, and supports many local events, such as the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Variety Club of South Australia. The state government also actively supports the company (almost all state departments use Internode). The company's services are now available nationwide through many means including Citilan: a project ,sponsored partially by Internode, connecting the city of Adelaide via one large WiFi network.
July 1, 2002 saw the launch of the Internode Games Network, a private gaming network run by Internode for its ADSL customers. It has grown since then into the 2nd largest gaming network in Australia behind Telstra's GameArena (http://games.bigpond.com/).
In mid-2003, Internode's infrastructure company, Agile, installed its own equipment in the Telstra exchange at Meningie, South Australia [1] (http://www.agile.com.au/press/press-01-10-2003.htm). This made it the first exchange in Australia where ADSL was available, but not through Telstra. Other regional townships in South Australia have since been enabled on the same basis and DSLAMs for further townships are being rolled out.
In early 2005, Agile extended the existing national private backbone it operates for Internode, to become fully international [2] (http://www.agile.com.au/data/connectivity.htm). This means that Agile/Internode is now a full Australian Tier-1 operator.
Internode also runs the only 3 public Steam content servers in Australia (Telstra’s Bigpond runs a private content server for its cable and ADSL Customers). Internode also runs local mirrors for several large download sites such as Tucows (http://www.tucows.com/) and 3Dgamers (http://www.3dgamers.com/).
Additional 'unmetered' content available via the national Agile backbone network includes relays of popular streaming audio sources and a 6 Terabyte mirror server [3] (http://www.internode.on.net/content).
Today Internode is one of the more successful ISPs in Australia, along with iiNet and Netspace, and is undertaking innovation relative to the hobbled (1.5 Mbit/s speed limited) Telstra DSLAM services by deploying its own services using ADSL2+ at speeds up to 24 Mbit/s [4] (http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2). Internode was both the first ISP to offer ADSL2 and the first ISP to offer ADSL2+ services in Australia.
Internode is on the verge of releasing a nationally available VoIP service called NodePhone (http://www.internode.on.net/nodephone) which leverages the international Agile backbone network and widespread deployment of Cisco VoIP gateways on that backbone to offer low cost distance independent telephony services.
External links
- Internode official Website (http://www.internode.on.net)
- Internode ADSL2 information page (http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2)
- Agile Communications official Website (http://www.agile.com.au)
- Agile Broadband Rollout Status/Schedule (http://www.agile.com.au/data/service-area.htm)
- Internode forum on Whirlpool (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=68)
- Internode listing on Broadband Choice (http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-isp.cfm?id=9)
- Internode Games Network (http://games.internode.on.net)