Archive for June, 2009
A Series of Tubes #88: entangling beams at the ANU, Stilgherrian on webbing government, forging e-mail, filtering games and Project Toto
June 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 [...]
A Series of Tubes #87: Alcatel-Lucent’s Geof Heydon on the NBN, Tethering Stilgherrian
June 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 [...]
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.
Sponsor Nortel talks about last week’s announcements at Interop, while crikey’s Stilgherrian looks at national e-security week [...]
A Series of Tubes #85: No, the Internet’s Not Full and the Sky’s Not Falling
June 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 [...]