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| Exetel has over 1 gigabit of bandwidth linking its customers to Exetel and another 1 gigabit of bandwidth linking Exetel to the national and international internet. Exetel controls these major links with eight high end Cisco routers and over 30 application servers. In the past two and a half years the Exetel network has delivered a 99.98% up time reliability. | Exetel has over 1 gigabit of bandwidth linking its customers to Exetel and another 1 gigabit of bandwidth linking Exetel to the national and international internet. Exetel controls these major links with eight high end Cisco routers and over 30 application servers. In the past two and a half years the Exetel network has delivered a 99.98% up time reliability. | ||
| ==Peer to Peer and Customer Backlash== | |||
| Exetel will soon be throttling peer to peer connections. They posted this information on their support forums at http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=17671. When people started to question the decision, or even just asking for more detail on what exactly will happen, Exetel's "forumadmin" account (widely belived to be used by multiple people, including "The Lintons"), abused them, deleted their posts, banned the users, and in a final tirade called them "trolls", "dickheads" and "fools" in the final post by "ForumAdmin" in that thread. "ForumAdmin" started another thread on p2p, which was also censored and also had legitmate customers banned for posting in it. A short time later, Exetel stated they will be censoring websites that they deem to be "accessing sites that allow people to steal (sic, should be infringe upon) copyrighted files, specifically movies,TV shows and music CDs". | |||
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | Sydney, Australia (29/08/2001) |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Key people | Annette Linton (CEO), Steve Waddington (CTO) |
| Products | ADSL; Wireless Broadband; Wire line, VoIP and Mobile Telephone; Web Hosting; VPN; Ethernet and SHDSL |
| Revenue | $15,000,000+ (2005 calendar) $23,000,000 (2006 FY) |
| Number of employees | 24 |
| Website | www.exetel.com.au |
Exetel is an Australian ISP which provides ADSL, web hosting, VOIP, and other internet services. It is based in offices in North Sydney and its switching centre is in a secure Data Centre facility in the Sydney CBD. Since 2004 Exetel has expanded its coverage to anywhere in Australia where there is an ADSL enabled Telstra exchange. Exetel now has over 35,000 residential and small business broadband users located in every state and territory.
Exetel resells products from Telstra (the incumbent), Optus, Verizon, Powertel, SPT, & Unwired. Many of the larger Australian ISPs have chosen to deploy their own infrastructure (including wireless) in order to provide faster and less expensive services than Telstra (the incumbent) offers. Exetel is a large ISP but has chosen not to deploy its own infrastructure (apart from its own switching centre). Instead, it is a wholesale customer of several competitors, choosing the best technology for a given location.
See also Broadband Internet Access (Australia)
History
Exetel’s office and PoP have operated out of the same Sydney CBD location since entering the market.
- 2002: Exetel Pty Ltd was established to provide communications consultancy to smaller communications companies.
- December 2003: Exetel's directors decided to provide internet and telephone services themselves rather than advising other companies.
- February 2004: Exetel began offering ADSL services to NSW users
Currently Exetel employs 25 people and its revenue in the year ending 30th June 2006 will be a little over $23,000,000 compared with revenue of a little over $11,000,000 in the year ending 30th June 2005. Exetel has been profitable in each of its years of operation to date and is on track to meet its profit forecasts for the current financial year. Exetel's news page is located at http://www.exetel.com.au/previous_news.php
Exetel services
In addition to providing ADSL services to residential users Exetel also provides
- SHDSL and XDSL services with speeds up to 1000 Mbit/s to medium and large businesses and State and Federal government departments in all Mainland State capital cities.
- ADSL2+ services in several suburbs
- wireless broadband services to over 2,500 users around the Sydney metropolitan area.
- hosting services
- a full range of telephony services including wire line, mobile and VoIP call services.
While Exetel has access to a greater range of broadband solutions, it has a somewhat inconsistent pricing structure depending on the underlying infrastructure used.
Exetel has over 1 gigabit of bandwidth linking its customers to Exetel and another 1 gigabit of bandwidth linking Exetel to the national and international internet. Exetel controls these major links with eight high end Cisco routers and over 30 application servers. In the past two and a half years the Exetel network has delivered a 99.98% up time reliability.
Peer to Peer and Customer Backlash
Exetel will soon be throttling peer to peer connections. They posted this information on their support forums at http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=17671. When people started to question the decision, or even just asking for more detail on what exactly will happen, Exetel's "forumadmin" account (widely belived to be used by multiple people, including "The Lintons"), abused them, deleted their posts, banned the users, and in a final tirade called them "trolls", "dickheads" and "fools" in the final post by "ForumAdmin" in that thread. "ForumAdmin" started another thread on p2p, which was also censored and also had legitmate customers banned for posting in it. A short time later, Exetel stated they will be censoring websites that they deem to be "accessing sites that allow people to steal (sic, should be infringe upon) copyrighted files, specifically movies,TV shows and music CDs".