A Series of Tubes #80: Ericsson on half-Gigabit DSL, Stilgherrian on April foolery
April 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
xciting development, and like Formula One developments, what happens in the lab will eventually influence more mundane applications. A Series of Tubes interviews Colin Goodwin, Ericsson Australia’s Strategic Marketing Manager, about very fast DSL.
And in Tubes’ regular talk with crikey.com.au commentator (and Twitterer and New Matilda writer) Stilgherrian, we look at Senator Conroy’s comments on the iiNet lawsuit, ACMA’s research into social networks behaviour, and the Vodafone-Hutchison merger.
