Broadband News
Mon, 31st Aug 2009
Australia Japan Cable & Pacific Crossing offer GigE links from Australia to USA
Australia Japan Cable (AJC) and Pacific Crossing have launched a gigabit ethernet service across their respective networks for carrier, enterprise, and ISP customers wanting connectivity between Australia and North America.
Source: iTWire
How to Get a Good Broadband Deal, Part 8: Bundled pricing
Bundled deals that include your phone and broadband certainly look like great value on paper, but it pays to do your sums. Here's what you need to know.
Source: PC Authority
That other broadband revolution
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra's massive nerve centre exposed
Telstra has marked the 10th anniversary of its jumbo-sized Global Operations Centre in Melbourne by throwing the doors open to media.
Source: APC Magazine
Vodafone 3G now reaches 94 percent of Australians
Vodafone has completed the planned upgrade to its network, expanding 3G coverage to 94 percent of the population from 80 percent and adding 2G EDGE services and upgrading 2G coverage in the extended 3G coverage area.
Source: iTWire
US Government wants emergency internet powers
A leaked draft of the forthcoming cybersecurity bill has revealed a clause allowing government takeover of private and corporate networks "in the event of an immediate threat to strategic national interests."
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Survey: Is the public discourse lacking?
Seven of Australia's leading ICT analysts are split on whether the public discourse around the Federal Government's planned National Broadband Network (NBN) is lacking.
Source: ARN
Sat, 29th Aug 2009
The ISP Q&A Series: Optus
The ISP Q&A Series is a look at the opportunities Australian ISPs have for resellers.
Source: ARN
NBN Survey: Analysts mixed on need for network upgrade
Asked if they had any doubts Australia needed a significant upgrade to its existing networks from technology and competition view points, seven of the country's leading ICT analysts have given mixed responses.
Source: ARN
Fri, 28th Aug 2009
NBN "useless" without subsea investment
Investing in a National Broadband Network was "useless" if some of the up to $43 billion wasn't allocated to upgrading international subsea networks, according to Australia's leading start-ups.
Source: iTnews Australia
Pipe's Guam cable: What does it mean?
Opinions are split amongst analysts, telcos and ISPs as to whether Pipe's new PPC-1 Sydney to Guam submarine cable will lead to lower broadband prices for Australians, but all agree the threat of its arrival, set for October, has had a positive impact already.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Survey: FttP is the best option in the long term
There is no better alternative to a fibre-to-the-premises (FttP) network in the long term for the National Broadband Network (NBN), according to seven of the country's top ICT analysts.
Source: ARN
Protests planned over "three-strikes rule" for downloaders
Human rights groups and Internet Service Providers have said they are preparing a challenge to UK government proposals that would introduce a "three-strikes rule" for illegal downloaders.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 27th Aug 2009
Woolworths to sell Optus 3G and data deals
Woolworths' chief executive Michael Luscombe says uptake of its talk-and-text prepaid mobile packages, which rely on Optus' 2G network, has been so successful that it will now offer 3G and data packages.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Photos: Inside Telstra's Global Operations Centre
Exactly ten years ago, Telstra completed consolidating its network operation management to a single site in Clayton, Victoria.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Survey: Seven top ICT analysts think the NBN will be worth the money spent
Seven of Australia's top ICT analysts agree the social and economic benefits of the Federal Government's planned National Broadband Network (NBN) will outweigh the forecast $43 billion cost.
Source: ARN
Blog: Facts on the iiNet AFACT case
This week's Twisted Wire podcast looks at some of the claimed facts surrounding the controversial lawsuit against iiNet regarding copyright infringement by its customers.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Wed, 26th Aug 2009
To improve broadband speeds, don't fiberise, optimise
The local head of wide area network optimisation specialist, Riverbed Technology, has delivered a stinging attack on the government's National Broadband Network project claiming end users are unlikely to see real benefits simply from fatter pipes and that the performance of existing broadband services could be greatly improved by widespread deployment of wide area network optimisation technologies.
Source: iTWire
Adelaide commuters get internet bus trial
A trial of a bus passenger information system that also provides free onboard internet access has begun today in Adelaide. The system has been developed by a group of companies that includes Cisco.
Source: iTWire
Taxpayers may need to subsidise Tassie broadband
The objectives of the new Tasmanian National Broadband Network Company include delivering "affordable" broadband services and setting prices, prompting claims services may be subsidised.
Source: Australian IT
Riverbed: NBN alone won't fix poor speeds
WAN optimisation vendor, Riverbed, has slammed the lack of breadth in discussions on the Federal Government's planned National Broadband Network (NBN).
Source: ARN
Don't make NBN "another Optus": residents group
A community group in Sydney's inner west that prevented Optus from stringing aerial hybrid fibre coaxial cables in its streets has warned the Government not to make the NBN a repeat performance.
Source: iTnews Australia
UK Govt proposes cutting Web access to file sharers
Repeat offenders who persist in illegally downloading music from file-sharing sites such as Limewire could be blocked from accessing the Web under British government proposals issued on Tuesday.
Source: iTnews Australia
Tue, 25th Aug 2009
ISPs should pay no mind to the cap
One of the great anomalies of the Australian broadband industry is the existence of usage caps, which around the world are virtually non-existent.
Source: The Age
TIO: We're doing the telcos' job for them
The telecommunications sector has copped flak once again after it was revealed that telcos have been slacking off on minor complaints, leaving the work to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).
Source: ARN
Internode ramps up enterprise offerings in the eastern states
In a bid to woo enterprise customers in the eastern states, Internode has tripled its NSW datacentre capacity and is unleashing its symmetrical broadband service in Sydney and Melbourne.
Source: ARN
NBNco joins Communications Alliance
NBNco has become a member of Communications Alliance, a telecommunications industry body.
Source: ARN
ACCC pricing process 'ridiculous' and 'stupid'
The consumer watchdog's draft pricing for fixed-line wholesale services will kill new investment in copper-based broadband, punching a big hole in any interim planning in the lead up to the years-away NBN roll-out, access seekers say.
Source: iTWire
Telstra gears up for zettabyte era: deploys Cisco ASR 9000 edge routers in Next IP
Cisco has announced that Telstra is deploying its ASR 9000 multiservice edge routers to support a range of bandwidth intensive, content-based services, such as video.
Source: iTWire
TIO names and shames Australia's worst telcos
The Telecommunication Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has released a report that reveals how Australia's top ten telcos have fared when it comes to resolving customer complaints.
Source: iTnews Australia