Australia's telecommunications companies have moved quickly to ensure thousands of Canberra residents whose property has been damaged or destroyed by bushfires have access to telephony services.
New telco IP1 has announced the world's longest non-regenerated fibre optic cable, running from Perth to Melbourne, has begun transmission.
Telstra today launched a competition to name its new 9,000km undersea fibre-optic communications cable running to Hawaii.
Few industries show as much promise for transforming the world. The optical industry holds the potential of giving everyone access to information everywhere, all the time. ZDNet explores the state of play, and the players, in this industry today.
The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Tracking developments in networking technologies such as IEE 802.11b and cabling standards, are part of James Ding's focus at the University of Sydney.
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.
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.
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.
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