AARNet has joined the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) - the body created by Polycom last June to develop telepresence interoperability across the networks of different service providers.

When the University of Sydney this week revealed it would axe over 300 jobs and slice $28 million spending in 2012, it brought into sharp focus the budgetary challenges that the tertiary education sector is facing as enrolment revenues fall even as student numbers surge on the back of the Bradley Review. So who will pay for AARNet 4 – the backbone communications network that will now be rolled out from 2013 connecting the education and research sector at speeds of up to 100 Gbps?

The Victorian Government continues to push its credentials as a technology-savvy government and to ramp up its efforts to promote Victoria as a ‘globally sophisticated ICT market’, to attract new investment in the tech sector and to deliver e-services to the community utilising high-speed broadband and the NBN.

The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has partnered with the NSW Department of Education and Training and the Australian Museum to deliver interactive video content via the Clickfest program which connect regional schools throughout Australia with specialists in various fields of study using high definition videoconferencing.

AARNet - the network serving Australia's universities and research organisations - has its first school customer served via the NBN.

If you ask someone for the time, you're probably satisfied if the answer is accurate to the minute. But for some commercial and scientific purposes, much greater accuracy is needed.

Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARnet, is hoping to get an 8 terabit per second communications trial up and running later this, or early next, year as it responds to the dramatically rising data demands of researchers which are doubling each year. The organisation has also finally released its five year strategic plan, several months after it was originally slated.

Juniper Networks has revealed that iiNet has deployed its high end core routing technology and has been trialling its 100Gbe interface cards, in preparation for the capacity demands of the NBN.

  AARNet has announced a strategic agreement with Cisco, which will see it connect multiple academic institutions locally and internationally to facilitate cross institutional meetings.

  AARNet has announced a strategic agreement with Cisco, which will see it connect multiple academic institutions locally and internationally to facilitate cross institutional meetings.