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...network will be laid in Tasmania as soon as July. The rest of the nation will follow early next year, with the emphasis on tackling black spots and bringing faster connections to rural areas. Ultimately, the network will be capable of data-transmission speeds of up to one gigabit per second, says John Lindsay, carrier relations manager at Internode, an Internet service provider that delivers broadband to Fernbrooke and across Australia. "The network will evolve over a 40-year period," he says. "Fiber is a pretty future-proof technology...
...cheaper DRAMs mean electronics makers can pack more memory into their gadgets - but it is a disaster for manufacturers. At current price levels, chipmakers have a hard time making money. Kim Nam Hyung, chief memory chip analyst at iSuppli in El Segundo, Calif., estimates that the price of 1-gigabit DRAMs, for example, is at about half the manufacturers' break-even cost. "The situation is getting worse and worse," Kim says...
...there? Today the company announced it was opening its network for the first time to partners, such as Google and Amazon, and offering business-focused applications created by outsiders to members. Eight applications, ranging from an Amazon book-review tool to a store-and-share space for a gigabit of files, went live Tuesday night. Expect more to come...
...have all the bandwidth they need, experts say, all videoconferencing will be done using IP. When videoconferencing gets to that level, "it will be operating on an easier platform," says Lou Gellos, spokesman for Terabeam, a Seattle-based firm that markets laser transmitters that can send up to a gigabit of video per second (600 times as fast as T-1 lines) between offices and the data network...
...show off their wares. Because the fiber-optic lines in lower Manhattan were damaged, Merrill Lynch turned to Seattle-based Terabeam, which provides laser transmitters (like the one below) that connect individual offices to the data network. The devices, trained on each other through windows, can send a gigabit of information per second--600 times faster than the T-1 lines used in many offices. Service starts at about $2,500 per month...