Mobile Network Hardening Program – Round 2

In the MNHP Round 2, CiFi was awarded a funding contribution from the Australian Government to continue to strengthening our network resilience in the most remote parts of Australia in which we operate our networks. Upgrades completed under Round 2 will introduce enhanced resiliency and measures at 6 mobile base station sites on both our Christmas Island & Norfolk Island networks, including:

• Uplift of backup battery power to increase site battery standby time for the current 4 hour, to 12+ hours
• Addition of solar panel arrays at all mobile tower sites allowing power generation to increase mobile tower site runtimes while grid power is unavailable
• Redundant backhaul connections from the mobile tower sites to our network core via LEO satellite technologies
• 2 x portable trailer mounted generators which can be rapidly deployed to any of our mobile tower sites

To learn more about the Mobile Network Hardening Program, please visit MNHP Program Information.

To find out more about the MNHP program click here.