NBN Co to up headcount as Kaiser appointment slammed

NBN Co executive chairman Mike Quigley told a Senate estimates committee that the company will test the impact on the roll out of different demographical and geographical areas of the country.

The work on first-release sites is due to commence during the second-half of this year.

The company will also establish a Melbourne-based network operations centre (NOC), for surveillance and management of the operational network, an integration lab and a data centre.

It will also be issuing a request for tender for the first-release detailed design phase and intends to issue a another request for tender for the construction phase.

"The aim is to validate the network design and qualify the total end-to-end system," Quigley said. "There is simply no substitute to complete end-to-end qualification in a live environment.