"It will enable us to engage with some of the greater collaboration projects and even participate as a node on the Australian data network," he said. "It really boosts our capability to engage with some of the world class research initiatives and the new approaches that the government and research areas of the country want to go."

In September, the with a view to enabling new projects that require high bandwidth or large amounts of data exchange.

AARNet recently launched a 10Gbps customer access product that is aimed at allowing more collaborative research between the university subscribers. Speeds of 10Gbps are associated with data centre fabric, but AARNet's greenfield network allows for high capacity across a wide-area network.

AARNet's CEO, should look to AREN as an example.