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AARNet Work Experience Program

Short-term placement opportunities at AARNet

Aarnet maintain workstream

AARNet Work Experience Program: Maintain Workstream

The Maintain Workstream focuses on network overview and management tools, components of the network and a data centre tour with the AARNet Operations Team.

Want to find out what it’s like to operate and maintain Australia’s Academic and Research Network?

The Maintain Workstream gives you a glimpse of providing and maintaining a high-speed network within a national telecommunications company. You’ll work with the AARNet Operations team to participate in network management, support ticket and incident handling, and identification of the multiple components that deliver connectivity from the data centre to the customer.

Students can participate in the Maintain Workstream at AARNet’s Brisbane, Perth or Sydney offices.

What programs are available?

2-day program (add 2 days of another stream)

  • An overview of the AARNet network through the network Weather Map and management tools.
  • Learn to identify key network components, such as routers, switches and optical nodes and how they function.
  • Visit a data centre and learn about the supporting infrastructure and how air conditioning, power, generators and uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) keep them running.
  • Find out what equipment makes up an equipment rack in a data centre, and the purpose for different types of cabling, patch panels and power distribution units.

4-day program

  • An overview of the AARNet network through the network Weather Map and management tools.
  • Learn to identify key network components, such as routers, switches and optical nodes and how they function.
  • Visit a data centre and learn about the supporting infrastructure and how air conditioning, power, generators and uninterrupted power supplies (UPS) keep them running.
  • Find out what equipment makes up an equipment rack in a data centre, and the purpose for different types of cabling, patch panels and power distribution units.
  • Sit in with the AARNet Operations Centre and how they handle tickets, change and incident management.
  • Open a server and learn about the key components, and how they differ from a personal computer or laptop.
  • Get hands on and power up and configure a Network Termination Unit (NTU).
  • Learn about how submarine cables work and how we connect our network to other countries.

Ready to apply?

Contact the AARNet Human Resources team to register your interest in the Work Experience Program. Once we receive your request, we will forward you the application documentation.

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