Archive for June, 2008
A Series of Tubes #54 — AARNet’s astronomical bandwidth
June 26th, 2008On this week’s edition of A Series of Tubes AARNet’s Optical Operations division infrastructure specialist Ivan Phillips joins the show to discuss the networking technology in eVLBI (electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometer) telescope experiments.
For the uninitiated, AARNet stands for Australia’s Academic and Research Network.
In eVLBI, telescopes separated by long distances (in this case, [...]
A Series of Tubes #53 — Orcon CTO Thomas Salmen talks SIP cards at the exchange
June 12th, 2008Our guest on this week’s edition of A Series of Tubes is the CTO of New Zealand-based ISP Orcon.
Orcon is the first ISP in the land of the long white cloud to get access to the incumbent telco’s copper. That means they’ve put in their own DSLAMs, and now, SIP cards.
Instead of selling VoIP solutions [...]