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Monday, 01 February 2010 13:06

Visiting academics get easier Internet access in PNG

The first university in Papua New Guinea is set to join eduroam, a system that simplifies Internet access for visitors.

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Friday, 27 November 2009 04:02

Australian Internet industry's debt to AARNet

AARNet, the Australian Academic Research Network has published a history entitled "AARNet – 20 years of the Internet in Australia" That's a bit of misnomer; it's really the history of AARNet, but it provides some fascinating insights into how AARNet kick-started the Internet in Australia.

Published in Cornered!

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Thursday, 19 November 2009 08:31

AARNet takes large files to the cloud

The not-for profit Australian Academic and Research Network – AARNet - has managed the transfer of files of up to 55 gigabytes in customer trials of its new web-based large file transfer sevice, CloudStor, which was launched on the market today and which allows the secure electronic transfer of virtually any file type regardless of size.

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Friday, 18 September 2009 05:06

For what the NBN will mean tomorrow, look at AARNet today

Australia's academic and research network today provides bandwidths well in excess of what the NBN will deliver, and cutting edge applications that exploit that bandwidth. CEO, Chris Hancock says they provide a foretaste of what the NBN will deliver to consumers and other users a few years down the track.

Published in Strategy

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Thursday, 12 March 2009 09:33

Trans-continental radio astronomy demo to strengthen Australia's bid for Square Kilometre Array

In an effort to strengthen Australia’s bid to build the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth has demonstrated the national network co-ordination that is possible and to prove Australia’s capability to conduct transcontinental radio astronomy.

Published in Space

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 10:27

AARNet in international demonstration of ultra high-speed research network

AARNet, Australia's National Research and Education Network, will connect Australian and international researchers from 13 countries through an ultra high-speed network for an international astronomy demonstration tomorrow. The demonstration, taking place over 33 hours at an opening ceremony for the International Year of Astronomy in Paris, France, will involve data transfer more than 1000 times faster than ADSL2+.

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Thursday, 20 November 2008 07:12

Super High Definition video streamed around the world

The first 4K Super High Definition video stream to Australia has just been delivered to the University of Queensland. The 4K format has been proposed as a standard for the digital distribution of movies to theatres.

Published in Networking

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Monday, 04 August 2008 08:32

AARNet offers 10Gbps access

AARNet has upgraded the access portion of its network to enable member institutions to gain access at 10Gbps, up from 1Gbps giving them 10Gbps links (10,000 times faster than the average Australian broadband service) to other Australian and overseas institutions, and even higher speeds are planned.

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Monday, 14 July 2008 09:58

AARNet to set up IPv6 project group

AARNet is moving to set up an IPv6 project group to ensure that member institutions are able to make use of IPv6 services, and to generally promote awareness and uptake of IPv6 in the AARNet community.

Published in Business Telecommunications

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Friday, 20 June 2008 03:03

To build a really big radio telescope, use glass

Radio telescopes in China, Australia and Japan have been interconnected in real time for the first time using the optical networks of AARNet and its counterparts to enable very high resolution 'images' of remote celestial objects.

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