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Global content delivery network Akamai has achieved a peak speed of 106Tbps on its network, the first time that the peak volume of data has exceeded 100Tbps.

Optus has launched three new NBN plans promising more speed for selected home users, and with unlimited data for “data hungry” streamers.

Australian firms’ “need for speed” will drive tech spending in 2019, according to one global analyst firm which projects Australia’s tech market growth to accelerate from 1% in 2018 to 2% in 2019 and 3% in 2020.

Data61 says its next-generation blockchain system Red Belly Blockchain has shown increased speed and energy efficiencies on a global network, with deployment on 1000 virtual machines across 14 of Amazon Web Services' global regions.

With my 4G smartphone able to offer vastly faster upload and download speeds than all NBN connections in existence today, and while the NBN says it does offer gigabit connections, when NBN Co wants you to ask "how much speed do you need?", it doesn't expect gigabit will be your answer. 

If you have a Thunderbolt 3 port on your PC or Mac, Samsung's NVMe-based SSD X5 delivers extreme levels of performance and reliability for external storage solutions.

The sad reality of the NBN is that 100Mbps connections are just too slow in 2018, and only God knows when gigabit Internet will become cheap and affordable for all.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has added three new videos to its telco tips series focusing on the factors inside your home that can affect how your broadband works.

NBN provider MyRepublic has "paid penalties totalling $25,200 following the ACCC issuing two infringement notices for alleged false or misleading representations about its NBN service performance".

Seeking to kick Telstra while it's down, and make Optus' customer limits to its unlimited offer look silly, Vodafone has stuck the knife in by upping its data limits even before launch.

So much for politicians suggesting 25Mbps would be enough, with NBN Co reporting the number of Australian homes and business connected to higher speed NBN plans "has more than doubled with new figures revealing more than one million people have upgraded their internet speeds in the last four months".

Singtel claims to have achieved the world’s first 1Gbps mobile peak speed on Ericsson’s quad-band FDD/TDD Carrier Aggregation technology.

Samsung's excellence at flash storage has seen its 700 and then 800-series SSDs prove extremely popular. Now the latest 860-series EVO and PRO models for consumer and business use have arrived, promising "ultimate performance and reliability".

A successful demonstration of 400Gbps speeds over 61.5 GHz spectrum on Telstra’s transmission network in Melbourne has shown "the highest spectral efficiency per fibre pair ever achieved in a live environment and enables up to 30.4 terabit per second (Tbps) bandwidth".

If you're still waiting on your computer to finish so you can get on with the next task, then these tips to speed up Photoshop are a picture perfect way to speed up all computer operations.

Billed as "NBN-ready" and running with "the latest generation of blisteringly fast AC5300 Wi-Fi speeds, COBRA boasts a built-in VDSL2 and ADSL2+ Modem, dedicated Gigabit WAN port and four Gigabit LAN ports". Is the NBN ready for D-Link's COBRA?

Can a government organisation (the ACCC) solve the NBN mess created by the government organisation that caused it (NBN Co), or will we just end up with 29 recommendations spanning a wide range of competition and consumer issues in communications markets?

Over one million (45%) Australian households who have connected to the national broadband network experienced issues when transitioning across to the service, according to a newly published research report.

Vodafone is using AI-enabled augmented engineering technology to help its networks continually stay optimised, serving its customers vastly better – and faster.

Vodafone and Nokia have conducted Australia’s "first live public 5G demonstration" at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).