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NBN impetus traced back to 'asset rich' Telstra

This week the "revelation" that an uncooperative Telstra prompted the National Broadband Network will hit the headlines again as the ABC digs into the politics of the telecommunications industry. In reality the writing has been on the wall ever since deregulation more than a decade ago.

By Rodney Gedda | 11 April, 2011 11:28

Tags: deregulation, Four Corners, FTTN, government, NBN, nbn co, Senator Stephen Conroy, Telstra

Never say 'that's enough' for any (NBN) application

If those who do not study history are destined to repeat it, Malcolm Turbull's 12Mbps broadband speed comment should have been more carefully phrased to prevent him from sounding like the Bill Gates of broadband in 20 years time.

By Rodney Gedda | 29 October, 2010 14:05

Tags: ADSL, broadband, fttp, malcolm turnbull, NBN

Like the NBN or not, let's make the most of it

As the 2010 federal election finally came to a close this week technology and political commentators alike have centred their post-poll opinions around the most pivotal policy – the National Broadband Network. With Labor back in the driver's seat the NBN is set to go ahead. It's now time to forget the politics and get behind this advanced technology infrastructure project to make it a success.

By Rodney Gedda | 08 September, 2010 11:18

Tags: broadband, government, Julia Gillard, Labor, NBN, Tony Abbott

Economic crisis threatens networking growth

The beginning of a new year normally is a time to reflect; it's all the more so when the network industry is facing (along with the rest of the economy) a major financial crisis. We are of a generation that has taken network growth for granted, that has seen the Internet reshape culture and that has come to believe that "more bits" paves the road to the future. It just might be that this comfortable view is the greatest threat we face, because networking is going to change one way or the other.

By Thomas Nolle | 04 December, 2008 08:00

Tags: global recession, networking

Saving through network convergence

There's likely a number of building systems in place at your organization: HVAC, lighting, fire, security, telephone, and the like. You also have your IT infrastructure. Turns out that converging those systems on a single IP-based network promises a wealth of money-saving benefits and efficiency gains, according to a recently released white paper from Johnson Controls titled "The Perfect Technology Storm."

By Ted Samson | 28 November, 2008 10:44

Tags: network convergence

Drive the goblins out of your converged network

Small businesses converging voice, video and data traffic sometimes end up with haunted networks, but you can exorcise the demons. Affordable QoS mechanisms are available to oust the goblins that cause delay, jitter, bit-rate errors and dropped packets.

By John Klein | 03 November, 2008 10:49

Tags: networking, telecommunications

A 'C change' in CDN?

In the world of content distribution networks, A is for Akamai. What about the rest? Is B for BitGravity, or maybe BitTorrent because of the potential impact of peer-to-peer technology on CDNs? Is C for content? I don't think so. I think it's for carrier or maybe cloud -- and in either case, the "C change" is potentially a major one for the CDN world.

By Thomas Nolle | 11 September, 2008 11:21

Tags: cdn

Cisco swindler sentenced

It was not a good day for convicted counterfeit Cisco swindler - Charles Lacy-Thompson:

Your apps need a scratch pad

Developers working with three tiered software architectures -- divided into presentation, business logic and data tiers -- cannot efficiently handle temporary application data that must be sharable between servers to provide high application availability and seamless scalability. But technologies, many of them open source, have emerged that deliver an important piece of infrastructure to manage this work-in-progress data.

Not the usual back-end trouble

In the late 90s I worked for a midsize ISP in the midwestern United States. Like any ISP at that time, we had dialup service, which meant we had a consumer-oriented tech support number. A friend of one of my co-workers was hired for dialup tech support. We'll call him Jake. He had some computer experience but no specific qualifications to do more than what he was hired to do.

Consolidation, convergence, change: the road ahead

What effect, if any, will the unstable global financial markets have on technology and business in the next few years? Where to now?

Carrier Ethernet grows up

There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and -- let's be honest --more than a little hype, too. In the early days, the focus was on how Ethernet was going to displace SONET and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy as a low-level optical technology.