OptiComm Fiber Connects Communities

A robust, scalable network is at the heart of OptiComm’s business plan to connect new housing estates, apartments, commercial buildings, retail stores, and more to its growing network which currently has 124,000 lots.

“With the growth of our retail ISP customers and our expansion across Australia, we found that our core network infrastructure needed to be upgraded,” says Stephen Davies, CTO of OptiComm. “In particular, we wanted to facilitate more 1 Gbps services as well as smart cities services.”

“We needed a partner that could support us in our journey toward doubling OptiComm’s core network, while providing state-of-the-art speed and security,” Davies says. “Juniper Networks has a strong reputation for building simple and reliable networks, so it was a natural fit.”

“With higher bandwidth requirements coming from our retail service provider customers, we needed a platform that could deal with the raw bandwidth of the aggregated traffic, and scale with our business from an economic and technical perspective,” says Ben Liew, chief network officer at OptiComm. “Juniper stood out on top in its ability to meet our requirements.”

The Juniper relationship is just beginning at OptiComm, but it is off to a strong start. “Our Juniper account management team are exceptional,” Liew says. “They are very supportive and provided any assistance we needed to get the migration and deployment completed and across the line.”

“We had a diverse set of stakeholders from engineers to field techs who do the physical work of the upgrades,” Liew says. “We worked with Juniper to develop a tailored training regime based on our areas of interest. The training was exceptional in terms of content, knowledge, and depth.”

A robust, scalable Juniper network is at the core of OptiComm’s growth strategy and competitive differentiation.

“With the Juniper platform, we can play in a larger market and provide a product and feature set equivalent to larger network operators,” Liew says.

A state-of-the-art broadband fiber network is core to winning new business, and the company cited having a Juniper network as a key factor in winning the business to deliver connectivity to Nicheliving, a major property developer in Perth.

“We see an opportunity in smart city services and the Juniper platform allows us to meet complex technical requirements with greater flexibility,” Liew says.