Overview
Soul operates Australia's largest independent carrier network with 250 points of interconnect (POI) and points of presence (POP). Many of these POP's are located in regional areas providing Soul with the capability to deliver cost effective, high-speed services to almost 96% of Australia
The network can provide local call access to 98.5% of Australian homes and businesses.
topWhere it all began
Did you know that Soul's carrier network was purpose built to distribute continuous Digital Television pictures and sound (DVB) across metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Australia?
Each DVB Broadcast service is distributed on Soul's carrier network at data rates of 22Mbps.
Moving digital images and sound across vast distances called for a better solution than available from existing carrier networks. Soul needed a network that could deliver sustained, high bandwidths with minimum latency, jitter and packet loss.
Soul's design started from a blank piece of paper and green field sites. Within two years Soul's core network infrastructure, covered the entire Eastern seaboard and traversed many coastal and inland towns and centres in areas that you would expect that Digital Television pictures and sound need to go.
This network continues to expand to address the growing demands of Government, Corporate and Business clients in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia as well as meeting the growing needs of regional and remote communities.
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Network Features
Overview of the Soul network
It's true that it is the latest network architecture but what makes this network unique is that it was built to carry dedicated IP traffic, privately, securely and with inherent Quality of Service. Soul became the first telecommunications company in the world to deliver 22Mbps DVB television pictures and sound successfully as native IP traffic.
About Soul's MPLS Network
Soul's Network is unique because we invested in a fully distributed core design across metropolitan, regional and remote areas of Australia that sets Soul apart from all others when it comes to delivering the highest end-to-end network performance.
Real world security is addressed through 24x7 network monitoring, redundant and uninterruptible power supply, air-conditioned environments and smoke detection alarms.
Voice Services
Soul have developed and rolled out a national IP network to rival that of the incumbent provider's legacy network infrastructure.
Soul has an interconnect with Telstra at all 66 Call Collection Areas (CCA's) across the country and can terminate calls (locally) to over 98% of Australia. Soul has state-of-the-art carrier-grade soft switching across a 100% Cisco powered network and the network is today carrying over a billion voice and data minutes with network availability over 99.99%.
DSL Network
Soul is rolling out our own DSLAM infrastructure into Telstra exchanges across Australia. This allows Soul to deliver high speed, cost effective "last mile" access to the customer.
The difference between this initiative and other DSL providers is that Soul will be delivering services on owned, alternative, competitive infrastructure into a distributed switching architecture meaning not only significant economic benefits but significant technological advantages including the quality of the service, delivery of new and innovative broadband applications into the future.