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Radek Tkaczyk

Connecting the ground to orbit: data centres, carrier networks, fibre and low-Earth-orbit satellites.

Technical Director at NetVault. Building resilient connectivity across Australia and the Pacific, from Tier IV racks and dark fibre to Starlink and Amazon LEO.

Get in touch In the news →
  • 2021-04-12First standalone Starlink end-user deployments in Australia
  • <1 sStarlink → 4G/5G failover, same public static IP
  • 550 kmvs 36,000 km: why LEO changes everything
Portrait of Radek Tkaczyk
Radek Tkaczyk in a NetVault polo

// about

Engineer at the edge of the network, and above it.

I'm a Brisbane-based network engineer and Technical Director at NetVault, an Australian telco that delivers Internet, Telephony and Cloud services through managed service providers. My work sits where the physical and orbital internet meet: data-centre interconnects, fibre and carrier aggregation, and low-Earth-orbit satellite services like Starlink and, soon, Amazon LEO.

In April 2021 our team was the first in Australia to deploy standalone Starlink terminals to end users. I led Project Halo, a $100K Starlink and Cisco grant to connect a regional school. When the 2022 floods washed away fibre in the Northern Rivers, we trucked Starlink Rapid Deployment Kits to evacuation centres and the rescue helicopter base.

Before that, as Senior Systems Consultant at VMvault from 2011 to 2020, I built private-cloud and national MPLS services in NEXTDC facilities, including one of the first 20 Gbps Azure ExpressRoute links through AXONVX.

Certifications

  • BINF TECH (Bachelor of Information Technology)
  • VCP (VMware Certified Professional)
  • CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
  • MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)
  • DCNE (D-Link Certified Network Engineer)
  • AACS (Associate Member of the Australian Computer Society)
  1. 2022–Now
    Technical Director · NetVault (opens in a new tab)
  2. 2020–2022
    Senior Systems Consultant · NetVault (opens in a new tab)
  3. 2011–2020
    Senior Systems Consultant · VMvault (opens in a new tab)
  4. 2008–2011
  5. 2004–2008
    Senior Computer Systems and Network Engineer · Timeless Technologies (opens in a new tab)
  6. 2001–2004
    Computer Systems and Network Engineer · Crosslink (opens in a new tab)
  7. 2001
    Graduated, Bachelor of Information Technology · Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (opens in a new tab) Education
  8. 1999–2004

// expertise

Layers I work across

From the meet-me room to the constellation: the full path a packet takes.

Data Centres

Colocation, cross-connects and DC interconnect across Tier III/IV facilities: power, cooling and carrier-neutral design.

NEXTDC data centres (opens in a new tab)
B1 (NEXTDC B1 · Brisbane)B2 (NEXTDC B2 · Brisbane)S1 (NEXTDC S1 · Sydney)S2 (NEXTDC S2 · Sydney)M1 (NEXTDC M1 · Melbourne)M2 (NEXTDC M2 · Melbourne)P1 (NEXTDC P1 · Perth)P2 (NEXTDC P2 · Perth)A1 (NEXTDC A1 · Adelaide)D1 (NEXTDC D1 · Darwin)
Equinix Australian data centres (opens in a new tab)
BR1 (Equinix BR1 · Brisbane)SY3 (Equinix SY3 · Sydney)SY5 (Equinix SY5 · Sydney)
Data Centre 220 website (opens in a new tab)
DC220 (Data Centre 220 · 220 Queen Street, Auckland, NZ)
Digital Realty Tokyo data centres (opens in a new tab)
NRT (Digital Realty NRT campus · Inzai, Chiba (Tokyo), Japan)
  • Private cloud / IaaS
  • Cloud on-ramps (ExpressRoute)

Networks

Carrier aggregation across dozens of wholesale networks, MPLS, SD-WAN, BGP and resilient failover for business.

  • Cisco
  • Fortinet
  • Peplink
  • Juniper
  • MPLS & SD-WAN
  • NBN, Ethernet, 4G/5G

Platforms & Hardware

Virtualisation, compute, and the storage and network hardware underneath it.

  • VMware
  • KVM
  • Proxmox
  • Cisco
  • Dell
  • HP

Telephony & Voice

Business voice and unified communications: SIP trunking, hosted PBX and Teams calling.

  • Microsoft Teams Direct Routing
  • SIP
  • 3CX
  • Vodia
  • NetVault UCS

Fibre Optics

Dark fibre, Direct Fibre Access and Business Ethernet. Light is still the fastest way to move a bit across a city.

  • Dark fibre into DCs
  • DFA / EoF services
  • Subsea & backhaul paths

Satellites & LEO

Low-Earth-orbit vs geostationary: physics, latency and when each makes sense. Iridium, OneWeb, Inmarsat and more.

  • ~550 km vs 36,000 km orbits
  • 20–40 ms latency
  • Rural & disaster recovery

Starlink

Enterprise Starlink design: rapid-deployment kits, custom mounts and radomes, monitoring, and sub-second failover.

  • Rapid Deployment Kits
  • Seamless 4G/5G failover
  • AU · NZ · Pacific

Amazon LEO

Watching Amazon's LEO constellation (formerly Project Kuiper) and what multi-constellation choice means for Australian business.

  • Multi-orbit resilience
  • Carrier-agnostic design
  • Planning for what's next

// at conferences

At Conferences

Talks on Starlink, LEO, telecoms and cloud for the Australian IT community, plus NetVault at channel industry conferences.

    // interviews & videos

    Interviews & Videos

    Interviews, news stories and demos featuring Radek and NetVault: Starlink, connectivity and the IT community.

    // in the news

    In the News

    // contact

    Let's talk connectivity.

    Speaking invitations, media enquiries, data-centre, fibre or LEO projects: send a message and it lands straight in my inbox.

    • LOC Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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    • WEB radek.tkaczyk.id.au