networking & communication devices headquarters calgary alberta canada key people arthur r. price number of employees 200 1 website www.axia.com axia netmedia tsx axx designs and operates the wholesale component of several open access fibre based internet and data networks . axia operates the alberta supernet and is half owner of covage networks developing high speed networks in france . it as also been awarded the tender for the singapore fibre network as part of the opennet consortium with singapore telecom and has placed a bond to allow it to submit a proposal for australia s national broadband network . axia had a market cap of just under 160m in october 2014 . contents 1 alberta supernet canada 2 france covage joint venture 3 singapore singtel joint venture in opennet 4 australia national broadband network 5 references 6 external links alberta supernet canada edit main article alberta supernet axia operates the supernet for the alberta government . owned and funded by the government it connects government learning health library and municipality sites across the province . axia also developed packages for monitoring managing and maintaining the connection provision of electronics quality of service service level agreements and vpn memberships anywhere in the province . to facilitate the connection of non government customers axia operates axia broadband connection services . non government customers represented 20 percent of the total used bandwidth in may 2008 . france covage joint venture edit covage is a french joint venture between axia netmedia and cube infrastructure fund a 1.1 million private equity fund with direct involvement in 19 regional networks in france and a national backbone over 9 000 km of fiber deployed . covage is the leading neutral and independent player in the optic fiber concession business in france . singapore singtel joint venture in opennet edit the opennet consortium consisting of axia netmedia 30 % singapore telecommunications singtel 30 % singapore press holdings 25 % and singapore power telemedia 15 % were awarded singapore s national broadband network passive network tender on september 26 2008 . opennet will directly own the fibre links of the proposal which will reach 60 % of the population by 2010 and 95 % by 2012 and opennet will assume universal service obligations after 2013 . 1 their proposal creates an open access network with 4 distinct layers of ownership to separate competitive interests from monopoly aspects of the network . singtel the national incumbent will transfer existing ducts manholes and exchanges to be used for the nbn into an independent asset company by mid 2011 and sell down its stake in that entity by 2014 . the fibre will belong to opennet . the electronics will be offered to operating companies opco licensees who will operate the electronics layers 2 and 3 of the network and the operating companies will resell to retail providers . australia national broadband network edit axia netmedia submitted a bid to build australia s national broadband network nbn . 2 the nbn request for proposal involved the design and operation of an open access nationwide network delivering speeds of 12mbit s or higher to 98 % of australia s population . 2 the rfp was terminated by the australian government on april 7 2009 . 3 references edit company profile for axia netmedia corp ca ; axx . retrieved 2008 10 10 . national 10b plus network a step closer . sydney morning herald . 2008 08 08 . archived from the original on 26 august 2008 . retrieved 2008 09 05 . audit brochure . www.anao.gov.au . retrieved 2015 08 31 . external links edit axia netmedia vinci networks in french . note that this redirects to a covage presentation alberta supernet axia presentation on their proposed australian fibre network march 2008 also includes information and maps on its canadian network french partnership and singapore proposal . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title axia netmedia & oldid 738785441 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangeweb service providers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 01 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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