A Series of Tubes
An independent technology podcast…
|
A Series of Tubes #84: Industry Gets Ready for the NBN, Stil Doesn’t Get Ready for TanzaniaMay 31st, 2009The telecommunications industry is suffering an outbreak of co-operation, with the Communications Alliance working to draw together the threads of the industry’s response to the NBN. Will it be two-tier or three-tier? What wholesale arrangements will be required? Tubes talks to Communications Alliance CEO Anne Hurley. A Series of Tubes #83: Nortel Returns to the Sponsor Spot, Stilgherrian’s Tanzanian Project, and Data Centres in InnaminckaMay 24th, 2009Why would you put a data centre in Innamincka? Well, it’s a good idea if you have lots of electricity, a carbon-neutral technology to demonstrate, a business to promote – and too many miles between the generator and the consumer. So Geodynamics, experts in geothermal power, has proposed just that: a data centre in the middle of nowhere. But as A Series of Tubes will hear, this isn’t just another blue-sky idea. A Series of Tubes #82: A Light TubingApril 19th, 2009It’s school holidays, which means two things: silence is nearly impossible to achieve, and Tubes wants to spend time in other ways. So instead of our regular show, A Series of Tubes presents news and interviews from this month’s CommsDay Summit 2009, including Senator Nick Minchin, Telstra CTO Dr Hugh Bradlow, Verizon’s Paul McCann, Dermot Cox from C-Cor, Ericsson’s Colin Goodwin, Nextgen Networks’ Michael Ackland, and Tellabs Tom Rarick. All recorded live a the summit (and suffering the background noise of the Sofitel coffeshop!). A Series of Tubes is taking next week off for the school holidays, but will return in May. A Series of Tubes #81: the NBN (of course) and m.net’s mobile researchApril 11th, 2009The NBN has been on everybody’s mind: a 100 Mbps national fibre network gets the geek world excited. And it was also on the mind of crikey.com.au columnist Stilgherrian – so that’s the subject of this week’s talk with Tubes. A Series of Tubes #80: Ericsson on half-Gigabit DSL, Stilgherrian on April fooleryApril 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 A Series of Tubes #79: The Real Fake Conroy, Wikileaking All Over, and CSIRO’s New Wireless CollaborationMarch 20th, 2009A Series of Tubes has always had a very great admiration for CSIRO’s work on wireless networking, so it was a treat for Tubes to be interviewing Dr Jay Guo, director of CSIRO’s Wireless Technology Laboratory, about a new collaboration with Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. A Series of Tubes #68: Arbor Networks’ New International Monitoring System, Stilgherrian on 100M HFCMarch 13th, 2009Arbor Networks has announced the next generation of its ATLAS monitoring system, which covers more than 100 ISPs worldwide. The announcement says the network uses data shared each hour by participating ISPs, creating a huge data set of traffic trends world-wide. A Series of Tubes #77: TCP Undergoes a Security AuditMarch 5th, 2009I’m not sure how many people in Australia know of the work of security researcher Fernando Gont, of the Technological University of Argentina, but he’s well-known enough in the UK to be the author of two papers which respectively audit the security of IP and TCP. The latest, covering the TCP protocol, has just been published by the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), and A Series of Tubes talks to Gont about his work. A Series of Tubes #66 – Avanade’s Cloud Computing Research, On the Road with StilgherrianFebruary 27th, 2009Avanade has released research into both implementation of, and intention to implement, cloud computing in the enterprise. Covering more than 500 C-level executives worldwide, the research has insights both on the global and Australian markets. Tubes talks to Avanade Australia’s managing director Craig Dower about the research. And in our weekly discussion with crikey.com.au columnist Stilgherrian, Tubes hears about the Politics & Technology forum in Canberra, what’s special about Yass, impressions of Telstra NextG for streaming mobile content, and the departure of Sol Trujillo. A Series of Tubes #65 – CUDOS Adds Photonic ICs, Tubes Kicks the Filtering Fail-WhaleFebruary 20th, 2009Last year, A Series of Tubes talked to Professor Ben Eggleton at CUDOS – the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems – about the centre’s all-optical switches (that interview can be found here ). CUDOS has now added to its portfolio of breakthroughs with a PIC – photonic IC – which can not only switch optical traffic, but provide optical network monitoring and protection, all in the optical domain. Tubes regular, crikey.com.au columnist Stilgherrian, looks at the start of the federal filtering trials. |
