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  • RBBP rollout in pictures

    Senator Stephen Conroy visited the RBBP National Project Office to commemorate Nextgen’s passing of the halfway mark (3000 km) of the RBBP rollout

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    FTTN-OPEL exhumed under Lib NBN-kill plan

    The Coalition is planning a national telecommunications network reminiscent of the hybrid Fibre to the Node-OPEL model briefly considered by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy in the wake of the 2007 federal election, insiders say.

  • BOM seeks document management, upgrades data centre and networks

    The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) will deploy a document management system to allow its 1600 staff to search more than 6.3Tbs of internal data and 1.2Tbs of emails across its complex grid storage and virtualised server networks.

  • ASX looks to light up Pipe's dark fibre

    The ASX will light up Pipe Network’s dark fibre to offer the financial services market one high-capacity connection for all its products and services.

  • Telstra-NBN Co deal opens up 6m kms of fibre

    NBN Co could gain access to 6 million kilometres worth of Telstra's fibre networks as part of the $11 billion Financial Heads of Agreement deal between the National Broadban Network (NBN) wholesaler and the telco.

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    Morgan, Tindall, Drury in new Pacific fibre drive

    A new drive to develop international network capacity is under way, in Pacific Fibre, an early stage international fibre venture founded by a group including Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall, Trade Me's Sam Morgan and Rod Drury, founder of SaaS software provider Xero.

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    Inside Cisco’s Sydney data and technical support centre

    Networking giant Cisco Systems has a secret gem hidden within its global operations – a $120 million technical assistance centre (TAC) in the northern Sydney suburb of Chatswood. One of only four such centres in the world, the Sydney TAC handles Cisco’s customer support load for six hours of every day. The Sydney location also has a data centre which is used for development, problem solving and interoperability testing. The data centre is the first in Australia to demonstrate Cisco’s entrance into the server space - the Unified Computing System.

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    Fibre to premises gives new housing estate 100Mbps

    University Hill in Victoria is a new 400 house residential, commercial and retail precinct which is believed to be the first of its type in Australia to have 100Mbps fibre to the premises (FTTP) connectivity available to each building.

  • Google banks on data centre with no chillers

    Google has taken a radical new approach when it comes to cooling data centres. The search giant has opened a unique data centre in Belgium that has no backup chillers installed, but instead relies totally upon free air cooling to keep its servers cool.

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    Plastic circuits to make tougher, greener computers

    Two Australian engineers are set to shake up the computer and electronics industries by discovering a way to make circuits out of plastic.

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