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items tagged with Fibre Optic

Aussie tech to speed fibre tenfold
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2009-10-18 20:28:37
An Australian-developed technology that can deliver a tenfold increase in the capacity of an optical fibre link is being commercialised.


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Internode says new cable link allows data boost, lowers costs
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-10-05 19:31:42
Internode says it’s taking advantage of a reduction in data transfer costs afforded by the new fibre-optic link between Australia and the Pacific Island of Guam to boost data quotas and lower plan costs to its customers.


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Aerial cables could halve the cost of NBN: Ericsson
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Networks

2009-08-19 02:49:03
Attaching NBN fibre to power poles instead of putting it in underground ducts would reduce the cost of the rollout by one third to a half, according to an Ericsson guru on NBN matters.


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Current backhaul networks won't support the NBN, says Nortel
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-08-02 18:37:57
Nortel Networks has undertaken extensive modelling of traffic demands likely to be imposed on Australia's long haul domestic and international networks as a result of the NBN and says massive upgrades will be required.


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NBN coming to Tasmania: first tender called
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Networks

2009-07-16 01:00:57
The first stage of the National Broadband Network (NBN) deployment is about to begin in earnest with the release of a tender for the supply of fibre optic cable.


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Telstra to quadruple capacity on Sydney-Melbourne fibre
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-07-13 02:28:43
As predicted by iTWire a year ago, Telstra has announced plans to upgrade the capacity on its Melbourne-Sydney optical fibre link by quadrupling from 10Gpbs to 40Gbps the data throughput on each optical wavelength in the fibre.


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NBN critics 'opportunistic': Conroy
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2009-05-20 21:41:40
Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy has again slammed National Broadband Network (NBN) critics, accusing them of opportunistic misrepresentation when claiming that towns of under 1000 people will automatically miss out on fibre.


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Nick Minchin makes merry with NBN panel "admissions"
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-05-18 23:52:40
The Shadow Minister for Broadband and Comms, Senator Nick Minchin, has yet again blasted the Federal Government over its claims following the announcement that the $4.7B NBN would be turning into a $43B NBN, saying that some members of the NBN Panel have admitted never giving any advice to the Government on investing in a “fibre to the home” network.


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NBN turf war erupts between Victoria and Queensland
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-04-14 01:12:36
The Victorian government is putting forward a strong case to be the home of the National Broadband Network (NBN), following an earlier claim by Queensland. New South Wales has yet to put up its hand for consideration.


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Internode signs up as Basslink first ISP customer
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Server

2009-03-30 03:49:42

Broadband provider Internode has signed an agreement to use the new Basslink fibre-optic cable to significantly increase its data backhaul capacity between Tasmania and the mainland.


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Coalition demands Expert Panel’s NBN report: Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-01-19 22:06:41
Ready to munch on the findings of the Expert Panel’s NBN report is one Senator Nick Minchin, the Shadow Minister for Broadband, who is pre-ripping into the Rudd Labor Government over the release (or otherwise) of the NBN recommendations.


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Coalition says Labor changing 98% broadband NBN promise
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2009-01-17 22:05:23
Opposition Shadow Minister for Communications, Senator Nick Minchin, has put out a statement claiming Australia’s Federal Labor Government is trying to change its promise to deliver fibre based broadband to 98% of Australians by using wireless from commercial operators instead.


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Media Q&A with Conroy over Telstra NBN exclusion
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-12-15 02:10:47
Australia's Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, held a press briefing at 2.30pm today to discuss Telstra being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) process. Here is the transcript of the Q&A session with the assembled media thereafter, supplied by the Senator's spokesperson and media adviser, Tim Marshall.


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Conroy “a manifest failure” over Telstra NBN exclusion: Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-12-14 17:58:41
Australia’s Shadow Communications Minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has savaged the Rudd Labor Government and the Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, over the “total ineptitude and mishandling” of the NBN process which has now seen Telstra excluded for a “remarkable” and “trivial reason”.


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Conroy: don’t be coy on Telstra proposal, says Minchin
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-12-14 00:08:40
It might be the political silly season but the Shadow Minister for Communications is pouring the pressure onto Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, to come clean on whether Telstra’s “non-compliant proposal” has “made the cut” in the bid to build the NBN.


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Aussie NBN network already being bypassed by Next G?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-12-07 20:47:21
With plenty of talk recently about how wireless technologies could make the proposed Australian "National Broadband Network" or NBN redundant, Telstra is already demonstrating an 800km rollout of fibre in the Northern Territory alongside wireless solutions that are serving rural and regional Australia with high-speed broadband – today.


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Quaking Quilty questions Singtel Optus $10 billion NBN “black hole”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-11-27 21:50:20
With many believing Telstra is set to win the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender, come what may, Telstra’s David Quilty is going out on an all-out attack on Singtel Optus, questioning its “$10 billion funding hole” and labelling it a “sub-prime NBN bidder”.


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T4 accuses Telstra of “nonsense” over NBN pricing
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-10-09 00:52:45
Dubbing Telstra’s recent statements as an “amazing broadband price yo-yo” and accusing Telstra over its ability to count or be honest over the cost of the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN), the T4 (Tell the Trust Telstra) coalition says it’s all a load of “nonsense”.


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Telstra tears Terria a new one over NBN monopoly revelation
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-09-09 04:06:43
Telstra has accused its National Broadband Network rival, Terria, of wanting what Terria accused Telstra of deeply desiring: a monopoly. Should we inform the Parker Bros?


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Telstra non-meekly states separation sucks
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications

Category: News

2008-09-05 02:02:14
Driven by a desire to destroy the dimension that is “structural separation”, Telstra has quoted the curiously named Kip Meek in an attempt to annihilate any action that would see separation succeed.


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