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University of New England gets $5M for AREN fibre connection

16.10.2009
The University of New England will receive $5 million in Federal Government funding over the next two years to create a fibre optic connection to the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN).

The funding comes as part of an announcement from the Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, that 21 universities will share $71.5 million to improve their facilities.

According to a statement, the University of New England will get initial funding of $300,000 for 2010 and then $4.7 million in 2011 as part of the Capital Development Pool (CDP) program to create the high-capacity and dedicated fibre link to AREN.

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The new connection will boost the university's links to the academic high-speed network -- which is managed run by (shareholders in the company include 37 of Australian universities and the CSIRO -- by at least ten-fold.

An existing 1Gb link will be joined by another fibre connection to take the capacity to 10Gb. The university's director of information technology, Brian Cameron, said the increase would improve redundancy and open new doors for the education provider.