Western Australia is to sport Australia's own Silicon Valley, according to state Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan, who yesterday revealed the country's biggest technology park will be based in Perth.
Nortel Networks claims it has developed new optical networking technology that can quadruple the capacity on telecommunications networks, from 10Gbps to 40Gbps.
A NICTA spin-off company, Monitoring Division, has developed a new fibre optic monitoring system that could help bring Australia broadband users closer to the rest of the world.
IBM researchers have achieved a new record in data transfer rates, 300Gbps, using their new "Optochip" fibre optic chip.
Australian researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) have developed a lower power, short range chip for wireless communications that can achieve up to 5Gbps -- allowing them to transfer a complete DVD in a matter of seconds.
The University of Melbourne has combined high resolution screens with a "superbroadband" connection to help it share research across the globe.
The speed of FireWire is set to quadruple next year after the group behind it announced a new specification for the networking interface.
Telstra has accused the Coalition of turning the country's broadband network into an election issue rather than concentrating on how improvements in speed could affect Australians.
Global standards body the IEEE cannot decide whether the next Ethernet standard will be 40Gb or 100Gb because it's members, which include rival networking vendors such as Cisco and Nortel, are fighting amongst themselves.
IBM, Cisco Systems and other powerful computing companies have allied to create a version of the Fibre Channel storage networking technology that runs over more ordinary Ethernet networks.
Five years after the concept was first proposed by New Zealand government officials, a high speed broadband network linking the country's eight universities and several other research institutions has finally gone live.
Technical experts have started to develop a new standard for Ethernet which will run at 100Gbps.
The ink is still drying on the IEEE's 10Gbps Ethernet over copper standard, but one regional Queensland council has committed its future to the fibre-based version of the technology.
If you dream of a living room without a tangle of cables connecting the DVD player to the TV to the stereo, IBM has come up with the chip for you.
Technology companies including Sun, 3Com, Broadcom and Samsung have formed a marketing group that will work to promote and educate people about emerging Ethernet technologies.
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