Telco tests fibre-optic infrastructure at 100Gbps over a "world record" distance to cope with ten-fold traffic increase on capital routes.
Telstra has been flexing its next generation muscles in a trial which could speed up the telco's existing network infrastructure between capital cities.
YouTube recently announced it's discontinuing video delivery to certain geographies due to lack of access capacity
Many folks are familiar with the modeling we've done over the past few years highlighting the fact that Internet demand is outstripping capacity, specifically access capacity. The findings were, to put it mildly, controversial: We've been called everything from carrier shills to nut-jobs. (No, the research wasn't sponsored. And we never claimed your fillings were receiving extraterrestrial radio signals).
Astronomers and the like to get their information from the universe a lot faster
Australian scientific agency the CSIRO reports that a $12 million upgrade to its radio telescope, which will boost bandwidth from 128 MHz to 2 GHz, is almost completed.
Demand for Internet bandwidth will exceed supply by 2012, Nemertes says
Nemertes Research continued to throw cold water on the future of the Internet this week, releasing a study projecting that demand for bandwidth on the Web would exceed its capacity by 2012.
One of the disadvantages of living so far from the rest of the world is that the data we want has to travel huge distances across very expensive undersea data cables before it gets to us.