Telstra has upgraded its cable speeds in Sydney and Melbourne, offering users a bump to 30Mbps.
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Telstra's BigPond Internet service provider plans next month to boost its cable broadband network speeds to up to 17Mbps.
New Zealanders may soon score a new high-speed cable link to Sydney boasting 240Gbps international capacity, after Pipe Networks announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kiwi telco Kordia.
A new cable Internet standard slated to be finalised later this year could boost cable modem speeds, clearing the way for a raft of new services.
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.
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.
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.
There are times when the tone of Australia's broadband discussions makes me want to laugh, and others when it just makes me want to cry. The past week has been one of the latter, after two very different broadband-related stories made their way across my desk.
There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.
Consider this scenario: DSL, ISDN, and cable aren't available. Dedicated lines are too pricey. Wireless is limited to line-of-sight. If your company needs broadband, you have another option: satellite.
A 40Gbps Ethernet standard could be on the cards, and 10Gbps Ethernet could run on copper--depending on an IEEE meeting in November.
A high-speed voice/data network takes lots of planning and patience. Hear how one IT manager set about tackling this task.
The first fibre-only Ethernet standard has been approved, opening the door for a new generation of Ethernet products.
As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.
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.
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Recently I asked how many of you still use a telephone line to connect to the Internet. The result? Plenty of you still use the good old standby, the dial-up modem. That wasn't really a surprise, although from what you read in magazines and on Web sites you'd think everyone already had a broadband connection.
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