Cable laying will begin this Sunday for Telstra's Bass Strait 2 fibre-optic link between Stanley, Tasmania and Inverloch, Victoria.
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Telstra's involvement in a new submarine cable to run from Asia to the US will boost connectivity between Australia and Asia, according to Telstra chief operating officer Greg Winn.
Optus customers in Sydney and Melbourne suffered network service disruptions today following an accident during trackworks north of Wollongong.
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Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.
The news this week that Canberra-based TransACT was going to start rolling out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services it announced in May, was at first intriguing.
Somewhere along the line, it became assumed that xDSL technologies -- which run over the last-mile of wiring so tightly controlled by Telstra -- were the only way forward for Australian broadband.
What many of us may have forgotten is that there is already a perfectly acceptable technology for delivering triple-play services voice, TV and data over a single cable and doing it cost-effectively and at high volume.
If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
At Pipe Networks' landing station tour last week, the company showed ZDNet.com.au how to fuse two pieces of fibre cable together.
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.
So you've replaced your copper cables with fibre optics, but now you're having problems. This article shows how to troubleshoot faults in fibre optic cables, including questions to ask to narrow down possible causes.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
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Like Microsoft's tabletop Surface computer, the touch-controlled Sphere can sense multiple, simultaneous contacts, allowing a number of people to use it at the same time. The system works by projecting an image onto the inside of the sphere, while infrared technology senses the touch input
At Pipe Networks' landing station tour last week, the company showed ZDNet.com.au how to fuse two pieces of cable together.
ZDNet.com.au takes you through a tour of Pipe Networks' new landing station for its submarine station.
iiNet CTO Greg Bader explains the effect that companies such as Pipe Networks, which runs a 1.92Tbps submarine cable from Sydney to Guam and owns numerous metro-based dark fibre links, are having on data prices.
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Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fibre-optic technology.
The ProCurve Switch 8212zl is a sophisticated and highly configurable network switch capable of handling 48 10-Gigibit Ethernet ports.
The HP EVA4400 is a Storage Area Network (SAN) system that provides data storage and security on a much larger scale than a simple RAID or NAS system. We found it to be a reliable and scalable high-end data system.
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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