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A Series of Tubes #115: Ciena Networks on the gigabit NBN; Stilgherrian on opposition comms policy
August 15th, 2010Whether or not NBN Co was playing politics when it announced that it would configure the NBN with gigabit ports, one thing is certain: the technology is certainly here and now, and given the life cycle of technology, the pre-rollout upgrade probably isn’t a bad idea. A Series of Tubes speaks with Anup Changaroth of [...]
A Series of Tubes #114: Geoff Houston on IPv4 exhaustion; Stil on the iiNet / AFACT appeal, Google Wave and politics
August 6th, 2010It really is happening, although the widespread sense of panic isn’t sufficient to stir people as much as a couple of pink batts.
We’re getting close to exhaustion of the IPv4 address space: only a relative handful of 14/8 blocks remain in IANA’s unallocated address pool, and as listeners will hear, some address blocks are being [...]
A Series of Tubes #113: IPscape on Twittering Customer Support; NBN, Pacific Fibre with Stilgherrian
August 2nd, 2010Like many things, it would be easy to put the notion of Twitter as customer service channel into the “believe it when I see it” basket.
But take another look: a great many companies have learned that it’s best to respond quickly to someone complaining about a product or service – usually with a #Bad(company name) [...]
A Series of Tubes #112: Internode’s John Lindsay; Steve Chung of Ruckus Wireless; Stilgherrian
July 20th, 2010If you thought peace had broken out in telco-land with the NBN finally moving forward, think again. The copper will be around for some years yet, and with it will be the ongoing wrangles over access to copper-based services. Last week, iiNet and Internode launched action in the ACCC over wholesale access to Telstra’s ADSL2+ [...]
A Series of Tubes #111: We’re back with Stilgherrian on “Ozlog”, Spence and Spenceley on Vocus Edit Link
June 17th, 2010Mostly, journalists use the expression “a long illness” as a code word for “cancer”. Not in this case: the gap in the Tubes was the result of my wife’s long illness, now under control, which had her in RPA hospital in April, May, and into June. But all’s well that ends well!
In A Series of [...]
A Series of Tubes #110: Peter Kazacos talks outsourcing for SMEs; Stilgherrian on censorship and comment spam
March 28th, 2010Peter Kazacos has been in the Australian IT industry a long time. He founded and built Kaz Computing into one of the country’s strongest locally-owned outsourcing operations – something confirmed when Kaz Computing was later acquired by Telstra. Now, as the result of the acquisition of his company Anittel by Hostech (along with several other [...]
A Series of Tubes #109: Prof. Rod Tucker of Uni Melb’s IBES; Stil on NBN Prices and Studies
March 22nd, 2010If the NBN is to justify its price, it has to make itself valuable. Apart from faster Torrents – which certainly will be of interest to some users – what else can make the NBN valuable enough?
That question is on the mind of Professor Rod Tucker, telecommunications luminary and head of IBES, the Institute [...]
A Series of Tubes #108: Cisco talks SensorBase, Stil on the NBN legislation, Lundy’s alternative filter, Facebook’s woes
February 25th, 2010The problem with trying to find attack patterns on incoming traffic, according to Cisco, is that the world gets into an escalating “zero day” war. Another approach is needed; so hear about Cisco’s approach from Andy Norton and Glen Wellby of the vendor’s IronPort business and decide for yourself.
And in our regular chat with Stilgherrian, [...]
A Series of Tubes #107: Vikram Sharma from Quintessence Labs on Next-Generation Quantum Comms & Rants with Stilgherrian
February 18th, 2010I confess: after writing about it for the best part of a decade, I still find quantum communications strange and fascinating. I also get interested in new research companies – especially when they’re Australian companies commercialising basic physics – like Quintessence Labs.
This week, A Series of Tubes explores both the physics and the commercialisation. Quintessence [...]
A Series of Tubes #106: Jan Meijer of UNINETT talks electronic identity; Stilgherrian sheds his Anonymity to talk gigabit Google and Vividwireless expansion
February 12th, 2010Identity on the Internet is a challenge. How do companies guarantee the identity of their customers? How do users test the identity of the sites they think they’re using?
In Sydney this week for the APAN conference, Jan Meijer took time to give A Series of Tubes his views on identity.
And in a week that [...]