Madison awarded $30 Mil NBNCo Contract
2 December, 2011
Madison has been awarded the
contract to supply Premise Connection
Devices (PCDs) for NBN Co’s national fibre-to-the-home roll-out. The PCDs will be installed on the external
wall of the house or home unit to provide a termination point for the lead-in
fibre cable which connects the customer to the network.
This five year contract is
worth approximately $30 million and forms part of NBN Co’s overall Premise
Equipment System for which contracts have recently been awarded to a total of six
companies (two Australian companies, one US/Australian JV and four overseas
based multinationals). Over the ten
years it will take to build the National Broadband Network, approximately 9.5
million PCDs will be supplied to NBN Co.
With this NBN Co supply
contract, Madison reaffirms its position as the market leader in
telecommunication demarcation enclosures (such as Network Termination Devices
[NTDs] and Premise Connection Devices [PCDs]). Since 1995, Madison has been the leading supplier of PCDs to all of the
major Telco companies such as Telstra, Optus, Foxtel, Western Power, TransAct,
etc. with models to suit twisted pair copper cable (for telephony), coaxial
cable (for Pay TV) and optical fibre cable (for high speed networks).
As one of only two
Australian companies to be selected by NBN Co to supply the Premise Cabling
Equipment, this is a very important contract for NBN Co, for Madison and for
the local community. The investment in injection
moulding tooling, production machinery, logistics, warehousing, project
management and supply chain management over the next five years will create
more than a dozen local jobs and provide a welcome boost to the manufacturing
sector in Australia. The PCD is 100%
Australian developed, designed and manufactured by Madison, itself a 100%
Australian owned company.
The Madison PCD exceeded
NBN Co’s technical specifications by providing additional cable storage, additional
cable termination facilities, additional fibre terminations and an extended
design life. The PCD allows easy access
to any of up to four fibre termination points and provides facilities to suit
any fibre termination type whether it’s a fusion splice, a pre-terminated
cable, a field-fit connector or any combination of these. This flexibility provides a universal
solution so the installation contractor can be assured that the one product
will be suitable for any installation type. The inventory requirement is further simplified as the Madison PCD can
be used for single houses, duplexes or MDU’s having up to four units. The proven thermoplastic construction has a
design life of greater than fifty years and this aligns with the NBN Co’s
overall network design life.
Madison’s PCD suits all
fibre termination types in all houses (up to four MDUs), will last for a very
long time and will provide a boost for the local Australian manufacturing
sector.
This result is a genuinely
good outcome for NBN Co, Madison, the installation contractors and the
community.
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