A Series of Tubes
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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 TotoJune 28th, 2009I 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! A Series of Tubes #87: Alcatel-Lucent’s Geof Heydon on the NBN, Tethering StilgherrianJune 21st, 2009Should 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. A Series of Tubes #86: Can Palo Alto Networks shake up the firewall market?June 15th, 2009The 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. A Series of Tubes #85: No, the Internet’s Not Full and the Sky’s Not FallingJune 10th, 2009Take 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. A Series of Tubes #84: Industry Gets Ready for the NBN, Stil Doesn’t Get Ready for TanzaniaMay 31st, 2009The 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. A Series of Tubes #83: Nortel Returns to the Sponsor Spot, Stilgherrian’s Tanzanian Project, and Data Centres in InnaminckaMay 24th, 2009Why 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. A Series of Tubes #82: A Light TubingApril 19th, 2009It’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. A Series of Tubes #81: the NBN (of course) and m.net’s mobile researchApril 11th, 2009The 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. A Series of Tubes #80: Ericsson on half-Gigabit DSL, Stilgherrian on April fooleryApril 4th, 2009Don’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 A Series of Tubes #79: The Real Fake Conroy, Wikileaking All Over, and CSIRO’s New Wireless CollaborationMarch 20th, 2009A 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. |
