Pipe Networks' undersea fibre-optic cable network linking Australia to Guam and international internet backbones will go ahead, the company announced this morning.
A team of Australian scientists have demonstrated a photonic chip that boosts the data rate of fibre-optic connections by more than 64 times to 640Gbps, promising faster, cheaper internet for all.
Nortel Networks claims it has developed new optical networking technology that can quadruple the capacity on telecommunications networks, from 10Gbps to 40Gbps.
Seven government agencies are expected to become foundation customers for the New Zealand Government Shared Network (GSN) with the first expected to go live before Christmas.
Communications giant Lucent Technologies has introduced a new high-speed fibre-optic technology and signed a contract to provide the equipment to Time Warner Telecom.
Installing cables can be difficult especially if they're 9,000 kilometres long and up several kilometres underwater. Our photo gallery gives you a look inside the 'Ile de Sein', a ship used to lay Telstra's latest fibre optic cable, which will become part of Australia's global Internet network backbone.
If you're about to build a new Ethernet network or upgrade an existing one, be sure to consider installing an infrastructure that will support 10Gbps bandwidth, even if you don't need that much speed right now.
It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.
The first fibre-only Ethernet standard has been approved, opening the door for a new generation of Ethernet products.
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The first fibre-only Ethernet standard has been approved, opening the door for a new generation of Ethernet products.
We look at three hardware tools and one software tool for network maintenance.
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Few managers consider it a sexy area, but well-planned storage systems are critical to the functioning of businesses of all sizes. How has storage technology evolved and how can you plan the right system at the right price?
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