FTTN tops 100 Mbps in NBN Co speed test
17 April, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingNBN Co engineers wrung raw downlink speeds of 105 Mbps out of existing copper wiring during a pilot trial of FTTN delivery of the NBN, but this is not necessarily indicative of real-world speeds.
One-third of premises passed by NBN can't get service
16 April, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling36% of brownfield sites passed by NBN fibre can't yet connect to the service due to incomplete lead-in infrastructure, and NBN Co said it is tweaking its construction model to resolve this issue.
New NBN Co CEO dumps three executives
15 April, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingNew NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow is letting go of three executives as part of a restructuring. One analyst believes that Morrow's future reforms will be aimed at reducing the friction that is slowing the rollout process.
F5 opens ANZ support centre in Auckland
07 April, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingApplications delivery networking vendor F5 Networks has opened an ANZ customer support centre in Auckland, its fifth such facility in Asia-Pacific.
Internet Industry Association to shut down
27 March, 2014 by Andrew CollinsThe Communications Alliance will absorb the core responsibilities of the Internet Industry Association (IIA), after the IIA's board made the decision to shut down the organisation.
Nextgen, Vic Govt sign fibre sharing deal
25 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe Victorian Government has teamed up with Nextgen for a project aimed at improving infrastructure diversity in south-west Victoria to avoid a repeat of the Warrnambool outage of 2012.
NBN Co sets up medical device register
25 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingAs the date looms for the first copper phone lines to be supplanted by the NBN, NBN Co has set up a register to help users of medical alarms ensure these services remain operational.
TPG fibre plan a threat to NBN: Switkowski
18 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingNBN Co chairman Dr Ziggy Switkowski has warned that if TPG and other telcos are able to roll out competing fibre infrastructure to the NBN, it will have a “severe impact” on the economics of the project.
Four telcos sign up for NBN FTTB trial
13 March, 2014M2, iinet, Optus and Telstra have signed up to participate in an NBN Co pilot of fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) technology in Melbourne.
Government to audit Labor's NBN decisions
10 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingMinister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull has commissioned an audit into the processes that led to Labor's development of its NBN policy. The review is being described by some as a 'witch hunt' aimed at embarrassing Labor.
Huawei Australia gets new CEO
03 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingHuawei has named James Zhao as the new CEO of Huawei Australia.
CEPU slams plans for overhead NBN trial
27 February, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe Communications Electrical Plumbing Union has accused the Coalition of wasting time and money with a planned trial of using overhead electricity infrastructure for the NBN rollout in Tasmania.
NBN Co to adopt multitechnology mix by 2015
24 February, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingNBN Co has taken the first steps towards transitioning to a multitechnology model for the NBN, including preparing for trials of FTTB and FTTN technologies.
NBN Co loses third head of construction in three years
13 February, 2014NBN Co's head of construction, Richard Thorpe, is leaving the organisation. Thorpe will be the third construction head to leave the company in three years.
Researchers hit 1.4 Tbps in real-world test
23 January, 2014Researchers from Alcatel-Lucent and BT claim to have achieved transfer speeds of up to 1.4 Tbps across existing core fibre. With a spectral efficiency of 5.7 bits per second per Hertz, the researchers believe this is the fastest speed ever achieved in commercial-grade hardware in a real-world environment.
