Networking

One-third of premises passed by NBN can't get service

16 April, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

36% 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-Embling

New 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-Embling

Applications 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 Collins

The 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.


NBN Co sets up medical device register

25 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

As 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.


Nextgen, Vic Govt sign fibre sharing deal

25 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

The 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.


TPG fibre plan a threat to NBN: Switkowski

18 March, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

NBN 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, 2014

M2, 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-Embling

Minister 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-Embling

Huawei has named James Zhao as the new CEO of Huawei Australia.


CEPU slams plans for overhead NBN trial

27 February, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

The 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-Embling

NBN 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, 2014

NBN 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, 2014

Researchers 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.


Monash University secures first new TLD

21 January, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

ICANN has approved Monash University to operate the new .monash top-level domain, with the first two .monash sites due to come online in the near future.


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