April 16th, 2010 | Posted in Telecomunications | No Comments
We take submarine fibre optic cables for granted in 2010 but it was only on the 4th May 1986 that the first international fibre optic submarine cable system went into service, 24 years ago.
Pacific Fibre is planning a 5.12 Tbit/s [...]
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March 30th, 2010 | Posted in Telecomunications | No Comments
This web site that gives you the ability to map out undersea cable routes effectively – and its free! You download a small app that connects to the servers for the latest data. Does use some bandwidth.
A great starting point for [...]
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March 11th, 2010 | Posted in Telecomunications | No Comments
All going well, by 2013 New Zealand will finally have the sort of broadband we need to connect to the rest of world and make the knowledge economy really work.
It’s early days for Pacific Fibre but so far customers and [...]
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February 16th, 2010 | Posted in Telecomunications | No Comments
I view New Zealand’s telecommunications infrastructure as having three major components:
- The “last mile” or “access” network
- The “inter-city” network
- The “international” network
The access network is currently copper based, with Telecom adding daily to its network of Fibre to the Node cabinets to [...]
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February 16th, 2010 | Posted in Telecomunications | No Comments
Australia has its own Fibre To The Home (FTTH) project and has recently been organised under the NBN Co. (NBN = National Broadband Network).
I believe New Zealand’s FTTH project, the Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) Initiative, can and should learn a [...]
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February 15th, 2010 | Posted in Events | No Comments
I am going to Accelerate 2010 on Wednesday. This has been organised by Rod Drury – Andy Lark (a fellow Kiwi and Head of Marketing for the Large Enterprise Group at Dell) is one of the key guests.
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