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ZDNet.com.au took a tour through the landing station for Pipe Networks' Sydney to Guam cable, slipping in before the planned lock down in two weeks, when the first customer moves in to its datacentre.
Pipe Network's Sydney to Guam fibre-optic cable, which is due to go online June next year, makes its way up out of the sea to this landing station in Cromer, where the data from the undersea cable is transferred to terrestrial cables.
BigPond cable and ADSL customers who weren't already logged into the provider's authentication server were blocked out of their "always on" Internet connections last night from 6:05pm AEDT, with the culprit being a faulty power supply in one of Telstra's exchanges in the Sydney CBD.
Telstra may pay a rebate to ADSL customers affected by a major outage on Wednesday evening, and will soon introduce a service level guarantee for cable customers following unstable network performance this year.
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The components that make up a modern datacentre often look disturbingly like commodity items: a server here, a rack there, spaghetti tangles of cable everywhere. But there's one item that is still something of a rarity -- and no, I'm not talking about the expertise needed to run it.
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.
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
If you're responsible for managing IT infrastructure, then the last thing you want to do when you leave your over-crowded office at the end of another day is to think about storage. However, the shift to digital entertainment means that's very likely to be what happens when you eventually return to suburbia.
Symbol's new wireless LAN uses dumb access points and a smart switch with power delivered through Ethernet to cut down on cabling.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.
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Power spikes, surges, sags, blackouts, and noise can all play havoc with your expensive equipment and vital data. We look at seven options for keeping your power uninterrupted.
High-powered panelists discuss the evolution of content delivery in the age of convergence and the empowered consumer at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual conference in San Francisco. Panelists include Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, America Online CEO Jonathan Miller, Google co-founder Larry Page and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
For the beige retail PC industry, there is a dark side to the idea of a PC as a whitegoods purchase.
Networking over power lines is one of those things that sounds great in theory. Does it work out in real life, though? Read our Australian review of the Vcomm DPL-100 to find out.
It's the size of a Mars bar, but missing a nougat centre. What APC's PNote Pro does offer, however, is a way to protect your investment in a notebook.
With such a wide variety of server platforms available, we take a look at some beefy servers sporting some very impressive processing grunt.
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