Australian Academic and Research Network officials are finalising testing of a new national fibre network that will provide researchers with data speeds of up to 10Gbps per second by April.
Australia's Research and Education Network (AARNet) today flicked the switch on its next-generation fibre telecommunications network.
Like Nortel Networks, Lucent Technologies and others, Cisco has been battered financially by the economic slowdown and slower spending by carriers and service providers. To woo customers, Cisco and its rivals have begun cutting prices on their products, but the companies also are touting new technology aimed at helping service providers generate new revenue.
As one of the largest Internet backbone providers in the world, WorldCom is on the front lines of the battle to keep up with the tremendous growth of traffic on the public network.
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Yes, I confess. I used the high-speed AARNet network built for academics for hours and hours for years on end to kill people in Quake.
Cisco's Mario Mazzola offers a behind-the-scenes look at the company's next-generation core Internet router.
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