items tagged with National Broadband Network Australia
The National Broadband Network is a proposed Fibre to the Node (FTTN) and/or Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) network in Australia. The Australian Government has called for proposals to build an Open Access Network providing download speeds of 12 Megabits per second or more to at least 98% of Australian homes and businesses, for which it is offering to contribute up to A$4.7 billion, in the form of a public private partnership. It will be the largest single infrastructure investment in Australia's history
Comms Alliance defines first NBN wholesale services
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-11-18 23:48:15
Communications Alliance has released a paper proposing a definition for wholesale ethernet services to be provided by the National Broadband Network and other broadband infrastructures.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-11-18 23:48:15
Communications Alliance has released a paper proposing a definition for wholesale ethernet services to be provided by the National Broadband Network and other broadband infrastructures.
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NBN 'a platform for innovation'
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-11-01 19:41:01
The National Broadband Network (NBN) could become a technological platform for innovation by Australian companies, according to a senior executive at a leading professional services firm.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2009-11-01 19:41:01
The National Broadband Network (NBN) could become a technological platform for innovation by Australian companies, according to a senior executive at a leading professional services firm.
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TransACT preparing IPTV upgrade
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-10-21 23:38:57
Communications provider TransACT will upgrade its system to deliver IPTV to customers. The company's fibre network covers Canberra and Queanbeyan.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Industry
2009-10-21 23:38:57
Communications provider TransACT will upgrade its system to deliver IPTV to customers. The company's fibre network covers Canberra and Queanbeyan.
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Minchin a 'complete Luddite': Conroy
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-10-21 01:51:33
Stephen Conroy, Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has branded his Opposition counterpart "a complete Luddite." The Opposition continues to delay telecommunications reform legislation.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-10-21 01:51:33
Stephen Conroy, Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has branded his Opposition counterpart "a complete Luddite." The Opposition continues to delay telecommunications reform legislation.
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Comms Alliance reveals its NBN architecture options
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-15 02:34:57
Communications Alliance has released a discussion paper setting out a draft of its vision of the NBN network architecture: a vision that it says would be required to deliver a broad range of network, application and content services to end users.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-10-15 02:34:57
Communications Alliance has released a discussion paper setting out a draft of its vision of the NBN network architecture: a vision that it says would be required to deliver a broad range of network, application and content services to end users.
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ICT trade gap widening, warns ACS
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-09-21 20:58:01
Australia's ICT trade deficit grew to $A28 billion in 2008, according to a report by the Australian Computer Society (ACS). Although exports rose, imports grew more.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-09-21 20:58:01
Australia's ICT trade deficit grew to $A28 billion in 2008, according to a report by the Australian Computer Society (ACS). Although exports rose, imports grew more.
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NBN Co HQ: states could be chasing a chimera
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-15 18:13:09
The Governments of Australia's three largest states have been touting their respective credentials as the optimum location for the headquarters of the NBN Co in the belief that it will bring significant employment and other financial benefits, but comments made by NBN Co executive chairman, Mike Quigley, suggest that the organisation could have several capital city offices of roughly equal importance.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-15 18:13:09
The Governments of Australia's three largest states have been touting their respective credentials as the optimum location for the headquarters of the NBN Co in the belief that it will bring significant employment and other financial benefits, but comments made by NBN Co executive chairman, Mike Quigley, suggest that the organisation could have several capital city offices of roughly equal importance.
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The NBN is dead – long live the new Telstra powered NBN?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-09-15 09:14:08
Australia’s federal government has come out with an offer that Australia’s dominant and supposedly independent telco, Telstra, seemingly cannot refuse: structurally separate the company or the government will do it for you.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2009-09-15 09:14:08
Australia’s federal government has come out with an offer that Australia’s dominant and supposedly independent telco, Telstra, seemingly cannot refuse: structurally separate the company or the government will do it for you.
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Alcatel-Lucent opens its GPON networks to other vendors' CPE
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-07 23:46:05
Alcatel-Lucent is taking what it says is a major step to help service providers create a true multivendor gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) infrastructure, expected to be the technology that will be used for Australia's National Broadband Network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-07 23:46:05
Alcatel-Lucent is taking what it says is a major step to help service providers create a true multivendor gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) infrastructure, expected to be the technology that will be used for Australia's National Broadband Network.
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Government publishes submissions on NBN legislative framework
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-06 05:27:36
The Australian Government has published more than 30 submissions received in response to its call for industry input on the legislative framework for the National Broadband Network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-06 05:27:36
The Australian Government has published more than 30 submissions received in response to its call for industry input on the legislative framework for the National Broadband Network.
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New joint venture hopes to lay the fibre for Tasmanian NBN
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-02 00:49:55
Abigroup Contractors and Tasmanian horizontal drilling specialist Apache Services (Tasmania) have formed a joint venture to install optical fibre cable in Tasmania.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-02 00:49:55
Abigroup Contractors and Tasmanian horizontal drilling specialist Apache Services (Tasmania) have formed a joint venture to install optical fibre cable in Tasmania.
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Telstra & NBN Co in negotiations "at the highest level"
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-30 03:06:03
The chair of the Tasmanian NBN Co, (and board member of the national NBN Co) Doug Campbell has revealed that NBN Co and Telstra are in negotiations "at the highest level' for Telstra to become a customer of the NBN and a significant shareholder in NBN Co.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-30 03:06:03
The chair of the Tasmanian NBN Co, (and board member of the national NBN Co) Doug Campbell has revealed that NBN Co and Telstra are in negotiations "at the highest level' for Telstra to become a customer of the NBN and a significant shareholder in NBN Co.
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To improve broadband speeds, don't fiberise, optimise
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-25 19:39:09
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.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-25 19:39:09
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.
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Final three Tas NBN Company board members named
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-20 23:25:40
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has named the final three directors to the board of the Tasmania NBN Company: senior Tasmanian public servant Mark Kelleher, Hobart academic Dr Daniel Norton and senior business executive Sean Woellner.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-20 23:25:40
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has named the final three directors to the board of the Tasmania NBN Company: senior Tasmanian public servant Mark Kelleher, Hobart academic Dr Daniel Norton and senior business executive Sean Woellner.
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Conroy offers $54m to fund regional and rural broadband projects
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-19 22:57:17
Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has called for proposals to receive funding under the $60 million ($53.6m net) Digital Regions Initiative set up to fund projects that will deliver high-quality digital applications for education, health and emergency services over the National Broadband Network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-19 22:57:17
Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has called for proposals to receive funding under the $60 million ($53.6m net) Digital Regions Initiative set up to fund projects that will deliver high-quality digital applications for education, health and emergency services over the National Broadband Network.
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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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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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Ask not what Telstra can do for the NBN but what the NBN can do for Telstra
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-11 21:44:47
There has been much discussion about how Telstra might 'help' the NBN by contributing facilities such as ducts etc, but there has been little discussion about how the NBN might 'help' Telstra by giving it much higher bandwidth access to many more customers than it is has available today through any of its access networks. Telstra has given some inkling of this by talking up its Next IP network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-08-11 21:44:47
There has been much discussion about how Telstra might 'help' the NBN by contributing facilities such as ducts etc, but there has been little discussion about how the NBN might 'help' Telstra by giving it much higher bandwidth access to many more customers than it is has available today through any of its access networks. Telstra has given some inkling of this by talking up its Next IP network.
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Shadow Minister slams NBN 'incompetence'
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 01:04:46
Shadow Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Nick Minchin has blasted as "incompetence and mismanagement" the appointment of McKinsey-KPMG as lead advisor to the National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 01:04:46
Shadow Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Nick Minchin has blasted as "incompetence and mismanagement" the appointment of McKinsey-KPMG as lead advisor to the National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.
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Government picks McKinsey-KPMG to advise NBN study
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-05 23:32:52
The Australian government has appointed a consortium formed by McKinsey and KPMG to act as lead advisor to the National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-05 23:32:52
The Australian government has appointed a consortium formed by McKinsey and KPMG to act as lead advisor to the National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study.
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NBN threat to Telstra overestimated
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-07-28 21:04:37
Southern Cross Equities analyst Daniel Blair believes the perceived threat posed by the National Broadband Network to Telstra has been greatly overestimated, and further that the NBN will most likely be built with significant Telstra involvement.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-07-28 21:04:37
Southern Cross Equities analyst Daniel Blair believes the perceived threat posed by the National Broadband Network to Telstra has been greatly overestimated, and further that the NBN will most likely be built with significant Telstra involvement.
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