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A Series of Tubes #88: entangling beams at the ANU, Stilgherrian on webbing government, forging e-mail, filtering games and Project Toto

June 28th, 2009

I can just about understand the idea behind the quantum entanglement of photons. But how about entangling whole beams? Tubes talks to Dr Juri Janosek of the ANU’s ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics about multi-mode entangled beams, and what they mean for the future of quantum communications.

Tubes also caught a few minutes with Stilgherrian shortly before his flight to Tanzania, to talk about Government 2.0, forged e-mails, filtered games - and, of course, Project Toto. By the time you hear this, he’ll already be overseas struggling with poor electricity, slow connectivity, and aeroplanes with moving parts on the outside!

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A Series of Tubes #87: Alcatel-Lucent’s Geof Heydon on the NBN, Tethering Stilgherrian

June 21st, 2009

Should iPhone users pay extra for using the device as a tethered modem? Optus thinks so - but Tubes and Stilgherrian don’t entirely agree. We also talk about YABS (yet another broadband statistic), Twitter and Iran, and of course project #Toto.

Tubes also talks to Altatel-Lucent’s Geof Heydon about the NBN: as we find it, it’s more than just a fast Internet connection.

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A Series of Tubes #86: Can Palo Alto Networks shake up the firewall market?

June 15th, 2009

The firewall market is hardly new. In fact, according to Palo Alto Networks, it’s so mature it’s stagnating. Can the start-up trigger a shake-up? Tubes talks to Chris King and David Thrum of Palo Alto Networks to find out.
Sponsor Nortel talks about last week’s announcements at Interop, while crikey’s Stilgherrian looks at national e-security week and the decisions of French courts.

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A Series of Tubes #85: No, the Internet’s Not Full and the Sky’s Not Falling

June 10th, 2009

Take a little astroturf, add a little lobbying, throw in a kilo or so of self-interest, stir it in with buckets of ignorance and what do you get? Scare stories about the imminent failure of the Internet - the ‘net’s too small, the exaflood is on its way, and we’re all going to hell in a handbasket.
To try and counter the gloom-hype, Tubes talks to Geoff Houston of APNIC. Although Houston is well known for tracking the gradual exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, in other matters he is optimistic that the technology and business models of the Internet are flexible enough to survive even the exaflood.
And we talk regulation, censorship, and Google Wave with Stilgherrian of crikey.com.au.

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A Series of Tubes #84: Industry Gets Ready for the NBN, Stil Doesn’t Get Ready for Tanzania

May 31st, 2009

The telecommunications industry is suffering an outbreak of co-operation, with the Communications Alliance working to draw together the threads of the industry’s response to the NBN. Will it be two-tier or three-tier? What wholesale arrangements will be required? Tubes talks to Communications Alliance CEO Anne Hurley.
Meanwhile, Stilgherrian is trying to get ready for Project Toto in Tanzania, in spite of the tribulations of topless garden gnomes (Tubes doesn’t know either!), but still took time to talk censhorship, international cables, the OECD and Sol’s parting shot.

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A Series of Tubes #83: Nortel Returns to the Sponsor Spot, Stilgherrian’s Tanzanian Project, and Data Centres in Innamincka

May 24th, 2009

Why would you put a data centre in Innamincka? Well, it’s a good idea if you have lots of electricity, a carbon-neutral technology to demonstrate, a business to promote - and too many miles between the generator and the consumer. So Geodynamics, experts in geothermal power, has proposed just that: a data centre in the middle of nowhere. But as A Series of Tubes will hear, this isn’t just another blue-sky idea.
Regular Stilgherrian from crikey.com.au will tell us why Tanzania will be the place for geeks to be seen. And in this week’s sponsor interview, Kirsten Gilbertson of Nortel talks about Nortel ACE - the Agile Communications Environment.

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A Series of Tubes #82: A Light Tubing

April 19th, 2009

It’s school holidays, which means two things: silence is nearly impossible to achieve, and Tubes wants to spend time in other ways. So instead of our regular show, A Series of Tubes presents news and interviews from this month’s CommsDay Summit 2009, including Senator Nick Minchin, Telstra CTO Dr Hugh Bradlow, Verizon’s Paul McCann, Dermot Cox from C-Cor, Ericsson’s Colin Goodwin, Nextgen Networks’ Michael Ackland, and Tellabs Tom Rarick.

All recorded live a the summit (and suffering the background noise of the Sofitel coffeshop!).

A Series of Tubes is taking next week off for the school holidays, but will return in May.

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A Series of Tubes #81: the NBN (of course) and m.net’s mobile research

April 11th, 2009

The NBN has been on everybody’s mind: a 100 Mbps national fibre network gets the geek world excited. And it was also on the mind of crikey.com.au columnist Stilgherrian - so that’s the subject of this week’s talk with Tubes.
The mobile world is also racing ahead, with Australians taking more interest in using mobile data services. Tubes talks to m.net Research Director Dr Marisa Maio Mackay about what’s changing the way we use mobiles.

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A Series of Tubes #80: Ericsson on half-Gigabit DSL, Stilgherrian on April foolery

April 4th, 2009

Don’t get too excited: 500 Gbps VDSL needs things we don’t see in the ordinary street - things like six copper pairs and short distances from the exchange to the home. Still, it’s an e
xciting development, and like Formula One developments, what happens in the lab will eventually influence more mundane applications. A Series of Tubes interviews Colin Goodwin, Ericsson Australia’s Strategic Marketing Manager, about very fast DSL.
And in Tubes’ regular talk with crikey.com.au commentator (and Twitterer and New Matilda writer) Stilgherrian, we look at Senator Conroy’s comments on the iiNet lawsuit, ACMA’s research into social networks behaviour, and the Vodafone-Hutchison merger.

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A Series of Tubes #79: The Real Fake Conroy, Wikileaking All Over, and CSIRO’s New Wireless Collaboration

March 20th, 2009

A Series of Tubes has always had a very great admiration for CSIRO’s work on wireless networking, so it was a treat for Tubes to be interviewing Dr Jay Guo, director of CSIRO’s Wireless Technology Laboratory, about a new collaboration with Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications.
The project will look at ways to extend the range of wireless broadband environments, working on antennas, microelectronics, and protocols.
In our weekly chat with crikey.com.au columnist Stilgherrian, Tubes takes on board two “outings” - the self-exposure of the man behind the fake Stephen Conroy, and the Wikileaks publication of the purported ACMA blacklist.

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