Broadband News
Fri, 04th Feb 2011
iiNet: the iiSP that's the new number ii?
iiNet has embarked on a huge advertising drive that looks like its inspired by the old "Avis - We're Number Two!" campaign, as the company with two i's says it wants to be the number two company that's number one ISP in your life.
Source: iTWire
Internet runs out of addresses - for now
The non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers doled out its last five batches of "IP" numbers that identify destinations for digital traffic.
Source: Australian IT
IPv4 dump a historical day in net history
The online overseers bid adieu to the last 83.9 million addresses needed to bring devices online, marking the occasion as "one [of the] most important days in the history of the internet".
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telcos send in repair teams
Tens of thousands of people caught in the destructive trail of Cyclone Yasi were without communication services yesterday as telecoms companies worked to restore their networks.
Source: The Australian
Key Telstra transmission link down in North Queensland
Loss of mains power and backup generators has brought down one of Telstra's key link in Ingham, in the north of Queensland.
Source: ARN
Thu, 03rd Feb 2011
iiNet's IPv6 is on its way too
National broadband provider iiNet today said it was well advanced in its planning for the expected Internet Protocol version 4 address global shortage, and the shift to version 6 of the long-lived protocol.
Source: Delimiter
Conroy: No Townsville NBN delays from Yasi
Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has rejected suggestions that Cyclone Yasi will have a major impact on the NBN testbed project in Townsville, saying that the nature of the project meant it would not suffer major delays.
Source: iTnews Australia
No internet "kill switch" for Australia, says Conroy
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this morning said the Australian Government wouldn't take the sort of action its counterpart in Egypt has over the past week, in attempting to block communication between protesters in the country by shutting down all access to the internet.
Source: Delimiter
iiNet to be one of few to benefit from NBN: Malone
ISP iiNet will be one of the few to benefit from the NBN, according to managing director Michael Malone.
Source: Computerworld
TIO: Mobile and Internet convergence fuelling consumer complaints
Internet services are increasingly being used on mobile phones and they are driving up the number of consumer complaints, according to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsmen (TIO).
Source: ARN
NBN Co mulls user-pays upgrade to fibre
NBN Co has flagged the potential for the "last 7 percent" of Australian premises slated to receive wireless or satellite services under the National Broadband Network plan an opportunity to "pay the difference" to upgrade to a fibre connection.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra, Optus, Vodafone assess Yasi damage
Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have reported network outages in areas impacted by Tropical Cyclone Yasi as engineers move in to assess the damage caused by the category five storm.
Source: iTnews Australia
Vodafone 'seriously impacted' by cyclone Yasi
Vodafone has been 'seriously impacted' by cyclone Yasi, with the telco releasing a statement indicating that voice and data services from Cairns to Bowen have been damaged.
Source: Computerworld
Townsville's NBN may need a rebuild
Large parts of the Townsville leg of the $36 billion National Broadband Network could be facing a major rebuild.
Source: Australian IT
Analysis: The legal means to cut net access
With internet services cut in Egypt as a desperate Government response to political unrest, the question has inevitably asked - "Could it happen here?" David Havyatt believes it can, but only if Australian democratic values were turned on their head.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 02nd Feb 2011
Miser Internode is hoarding IPv4 addresses
Internode is ready to battle what is expected to be a global shortage of Internet Protocol version 4 addresses during 2011.
Source: Delimiter
Forget piracy law until iiNet's over: Telstra
Telco giant Telstra has asked the government to keep potential reviews of policy surrounding copyright infringement off the table until a court case being heard on the matter is completed.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Cisco: Mobile traffic to hit 75 exabytes in 2015
By 2015 Cisco expects "petabytes" to be a measurement of the past, estimating mobile traffic to hit 6.3 exabytes a month or 75 exabytes a year.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN tops levy as legislative priority
The National Broadband Network has become the federal government's first legislative priority for the sitting year, ahead of its new flood levy laws
Source: Australian IT
Asia gets IPv4 breather
The Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) has received two large blocks of IPv4 addresses with another promised to it, giving businesses in the region that are in the midst of their IPv6 migration somewhat of a breather. However, this is mere respite and the agency is urging the internet community to heed its migration call.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Prepaid vs postpaid: There's more data per dollar on prepaid phone plans
Mobile data, the prized possession of any hard-core smartphone user, appears to have gotten cheaper on prepaid compared to the equivalent postpaid plans.
Source: PC Authority
Juniper changes course, accelerates IPv6 support
Juniper Networks is accelerating its plan to support IPv6 on its public-facing website and Web services, following criticism that the router maker was lagging rivals including Cisco Systems and Brocade Networks in this critical area.
Source: Computerworld
No more IPv4 addresses
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned two of the remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses - each containing 16.7 million addresses - to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) on Tuesday, as predicted.
Source: ARN
IPv4's funeral expected to come Thursday
A press conference taking place on Thursday in Miami is expected to mark the last allocation of Internet Protocol, Version 4 addresses by the central authority that assigns them.
Source: ARN
Tue, 01st Feb 2011
NBN Bills top priority for first sitting week
Legislation surrounding the National Broadband Network (NBN) is a top priority for the parliament in its first sitting week next week, the Federal Government has indicated.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Fault downs Optus 3G in Melbourne
Melbourne has today become the second Australian capital city to encounter 3G issues on the Optus network, with 3G mobile data services affected until 1:30pm this afternoon.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Adelaide hit with Optus 3G outage
A software error left Optus customers in Adelaide's central business district (CBD) and metropolitan area without 3G internet and voice services this morning.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN cost benefit analysis would be real challenge, says IBES study
The Institute for the Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne has holds out little prospect of a meaningful cost-benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network being possible.
Source: iTWire
Public support for NBN waning?
Public support for the National Broadband Network (NBN) could be on the wane with a new poll finding both Liberal/National and Labor voters favour the private sector, rather than the government, to deliver broadband services.
Source: Computerworld
Network admins field more DDoS attacks
Network operators faced larger and more frequent distributed denial of service attacks on their assets with at least one in three fielding over 10 attacks a month, according to Arbor Networks' worldwide infrastructure security report.
Source: iTnews Australia