EDGE CENTRES
Edge Centres Space
available technology , Eaves and his team have hit upon some truly unique solutions . These discoveries stand to make Edge Centres ’ modular , solar-powered , batteryfirst , “ off-grid ” facilities a key part of Australia ’ s future at the edge .
Building at the Edge “ Moving away from normal third-party colocation towards the edge was a strategic move . At the moment , I would still say that Australia is a year to 18 months away from the IoT and edge wave arriving ,” Eaves says . “ The towns where I ' m building Edge Centres ' facilities have never had a data centre in their entire histories . These are areas that have never had access to smart telecommunications . In the Wild West , the towns that had railroads pass through them were the first to progress and grow , and it ' s much the same in regional Australia with data centre infrastructure .”
Edge Centres ’ test case for a regional data centre site is located in Grafton , a city of fewer than 20,000 in the northern part of New South Wales . “ It ' s the largest National Broadband Network ( NBN ) interconnection point in the whole of Australia ,” explains Eaves . “ Australia ' s broadband network is decentralised across 127 points that the NBN connects to , and Grafton is the largest one with 145,000 premises connected to it .”
Grafton has been a critical proving ground for Edge Centres ’ first facility , soon to be the template for another 19 throughout Australia set to “ connect Cairns in the far North of the country with Melbourne in the South ,” Eaves explains . “ We ' re creating a new North-to- South network that currently doesn ' t exist point to point .”
Right now , the Australian NBN links hundreds of smaller regional hubs like Grafton with the country ’ s major metropolises like Sydney , Melbourne , and Brisbane ( where Edge Centres is based ). “ We call it the great
22 October 2021