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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

    Written by Georgina Swan • 30 Nov. 10 10:37
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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.

    Written by Darren Pauli • 21 July 10 08:13

  • 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.

    Written by Darren Pauli • 13 July 10 13:45

  • 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.

    Written by Trevor Clarke • 01 July 10 11:31

  • 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.

    Written by James Hutchinson • 23 June 10 09:20
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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.

    Written by Computerworld New Zealand staff • 12 March 10 07:50
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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.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 28 Aug. 09 09:13
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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.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 07 Aug. 09 09:02

  • 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.

    Written by Tom Jowitt • 20 July 09 08:55
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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.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 10 July 09 14:32

  • NYSE shrinks time measurement to nanoseconds

    In the ultra-geek world of machine-to-machine trading, the New York Stock Exchange is now measuring some of its processes in nanoseconds, or one billionth of a second.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 26 June 09 07:05
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    Trans-Atlantic Internet cables may be filled by 2014

    Voracious Web surfers, e-mailers and downloaders will use up the trans-Atlantic cables that were overbuilt early in this decade within the next five years, forcing carriers to invest in new ones in a market that's become used to adding bandwidth cheaply, according to research company Telegeography.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 23 June 09 05:18

  • Credit checker halves server count with virtualisation

    Financial services firm Veda Advantage has halved the number of x86 servers with a consolidation and virtualisation project.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 17 June 09 11:30

  • Asian carriers plan big regional cable network

    Eight of Asia's largest telecommunications carriers plan to jointly build a fiber optic cable that will interconnect the region's most important economies, they said Monday.

    Written by Martyn Williams • 26 May 09 07:58

  • Seagate's Replica: truly set and forget

    The scoop: Replica backup storage device, by Seagate, about $200 (for 500GB version; 250GB version costs $130)

    Written by Keith Shaw • 15 May 09 04:30

  • Cisco-Clearwire 'alliance' could portend much more

    The multiyear alliance announced today between Cisco Systems Inc. and Clearwire Corp. could be as simple as WiMax network provider Clearwire's finding a big, reliable wireless IP infrastructure supplier in Cisco.

    Written by Matt Hamblen • 14 May 09 07:03

  • Undersea cable investments to grow despite recession

    A global recession has yet to change carriers' plans to increase their investments in submarine cables over the next two years, according to a new study from research firm TeleGeography.

    Written by Brad Reed • 01 May 09 08:30

  • 100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet

    IT managers who are getting started with -- or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 22 April 09 09:03

  • Sony, Toshiba, Qualcomm join the Femto Forum

    Consumer electronics giants Sony and Toshiba have joined the Femto Forum, an industry organization whose role is to push femtocells. Qualcomm has also been added to the membership roster, the Femto Forum announced on Wednesday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs • 16 April 09 05:17
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    US FTTH model could cut NBN costs, risk: Internode

    Much of the risk and associated cost with the roll out of the federal government’s proposed $43 billion national broadband network (NBN) could be averted through modeling its roll out on AT&T’s US U-Verse fibre to the home network, a senior ISP network engineer has said.

    Written by Tim Lohman • 09 April 09 10:49
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