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.
Telstra has upgraded its cable speeds in Sydney and Melbourne, offering users a bump to 30Mbps.
Optus has upgraded its cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane boosting maximum speeds to up to 20Mbps on certain plans.
The speed of FireWire is set to quadruple next year after the group behind it announced a new specification for the networking interface.
Telstra user? Chances are you're the most unhappy with your lot, according to a survey of over 3,000 Australian Internet users.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
FireWire 800 ups the speed ante, promising twice the data transfer rate of FireWire 400. But what does this mean for you?
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