Archive for November, 2008
A Series of Tubes #71 — How Green are your Tubes?
November 27th, 2008This week’s edition of A Series of Tubes is brought to you by Nortel Networks.
Is the Internet greener? For as long as the Internet has been around, it’s been touted as the replacement for “dead trees” publishing – and more recently, as green concerns really take off, it’s also put forward as the replacement for [...]
A Series of Tubes #70 — Virtualising the License
November 20th, 2008This week’s edition of A Series of Tubes is brought to you by Nortel.
Virtualisation has been one of the hot topics of 2008. But the technology has held pitfalls both technical and administrative. The technician has lots to think about – system loads, application management, server management and more.
But IT administration can also [...]
A Series of Tubes #69 — Does Quality Matter in the NBN?
November 13th, 2008This week’s edition of A Series of Tubes is brought to you by Nortel Networks.
Everybody loves speed, big boxes, and big projects. But there’s more to a next-generation broadband network than “12 Mbps to 98% of Australians”. Service quality also matters, as anyone who has suffered a poor-quality VoIP call or been fragged in a [...]
A Series of Tubes #68 — You Max, He Max, WiMAX…
November 7th, 2008This week’s edition of A Series of Tubes is sponsored by Nortel Networks.
This week, A Series of Tubes talks about the present and future of WiMAX, with David Havyatt, formerly a high-profile executive at AAPT and now Manager of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs at Unwired.
In this week’s sponsor interview, Tubes talks to Mitch Radomir of [...]