Optus has decided to lease a new capacity from another unnamed carrier to prevent a network disaster such as Queensland's loss of internet, voice and mobile services last month.
The Tasmanian arm of the National Broadband Network Company, NBN Tasmania, has selected the company that will provide the fibre-optic cable for the new backhaul network in the island state.
The National Broadband Network fibre request for tender issued last week by Tasmanian state-owned energy company Aurora is for an estimated $3 million purchase, new tender documents revealed this week.
At a broadband forum last week, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy called the per-house costing of Tasmania's optic fibre network "bizarre maths".
Dark fibre backbone infrastructure will be a significant component of New Zealand's planned $1.5 billion national broadband network, the country's Communications Minister Steven Joyce said yesterday.
As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
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In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
Should Telstra be investing in a pre-emptive defence against the NBN? Or should it go slow and wait like everybody else?
Seven has made no secret of its expansion ambitions, but buying into pay-TV monolith Foxtel lends even greater clarity to the network's long-term vision. With wireless distribution and solid content channels under its belt, can Seven bring IPTV into the mainstream?
Fibre Channel is ideal as a server backbone. Learn more about this reliable and flexible architecture, and find out how to overcome its compatibility issues.
If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.
A high-speed voice/data network takes lots of planning and patience. Hear how one IT manager set about tackling this task.
Legislation setting up the regulations for the National Broadband Network could be introduced to parliament as early as this week, which means Telstra will soon get some clarity about whether it's in a lot of trouble or just a little bit.
The average traveller may think of air travel in terms of security checks and airport lounges, but Melbourne Airport IT manager Mark Funston has a completely different perspective.
The ProCurve Switch 8212zl is a sophisticated and highly configurable network switch capable of handling 48 10-Gigibit Ethernet ports.
The first fibre-only Ethernet standard has been approved, opening the door for a new generation of Ethernet products.
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
There's no question data volumes are growing; how long will it be before 100 megabits isn't enough? ZDNet Australia evaluates the performance benefits and cost effectiveness of gigabit Ethernet over copper and fibre.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
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