Introduction
The National Broadband Network, abbreviated as NBN is the Australia’s only whole scale and open access data network. This is the project under development. The NBN project is about providing high speed broadband to the citizens of Australia. NBN co Limited was established by the Australian government in 2009 and after four months NBN Co Tasmania was founded to operate the National Broadband Network in Tasmania as a subsidiary of NBN Co Limited. The development of National Broadband Network has faced a lot of political debates but after 20 years, both the major parties of Australia recognized the importance and significance of establishing national Broadband service. The main objective of development of National Broadband Network is to deliver affordable priced telecommunication services to all the citizens and advance them technically.
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National Broadband Network is a fibre and wireless based communication that would provide a speed of about 12 MB per second. It is estimated that 93per cent of the project will be fibre to node while the remaining 7per cent will be through wireless means. Telstra is the current broadband provider and coalition Rudd government of Liberal and National party has decided to provide an open acces data network to all citizens so that the fixed line customers of Telstra will migrate to the Local Access Network of NBN Co Limited. It is expected that after the establishment of NBN, the government will keep upgrading the services. The first goal of the setting of NBN is to be the only broadband provider in Australia. The Layer 2 wholesale will be the broadband for personal and professional customers. According to the financial agreement between the NBN Co and Telstra, NBN is ...
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...ased network with a new network architecture based on FTTN that is Fibre to the Node. Since Federal Government was a major shareholder of Telstra, on 15 November 2005, the company announced the National Fibre to the Node rollout to upgrade its copper based network without any government investment. But this project was not able commence as Howard government did not approved the project and called it “a mirage on cost and on the capability to provide high speed telecommunication to the general public of Australia”. After this Howard Government, in June 2006, announced the Broadband Connect Policy that aimed on delivering broadband services in rural areas of Australia. To fulfill this objective, OPEL Networks was announced but new elected Communications Minister of Rudd Government Stephen Conroy terminated this decision as OPEL did not followed the terms of agreement.
Of particular importance is the deregulation of the telecommunications industry as mentioned in the act (“Implementation of the Telecommunications Act,” NTLA). This reflects a new thinking that service providers should not be limited by artificial and now antique regulatory categories but should be permitted to compete with each other in a robust marketplace that contains many diverse participants. Moreover the Act is evidence of governmental commitment to make sure that all citizens have access to advanced communication services at affordable prices through its “universal service” provisions even as competitive markets for the telecommunications industry expand. Prior to passage of this new Act, U.S. federal and state laws and a judicially established consent decree allowed some competition for certain services, most notably among long distance carriers. Universal service for basic telephony was a national objective, but one developed and shaped through federal and state regulations and case law (“Telecommunications Act of 1996,” Technology Law). The goal of universal service was referred to only in general terms in the Communications Act of 1934, the nation's basic telecommunications statute. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 among other things: (i) opens up competition by local telephone companies, long distance providers, and cable companies ...
Although the net neutrality debate didn’t come into the spot light so long ago, it has sparked controversy in the communications world. This concept provides a positive impact to the consumers, competition and network owners/internet service providers. It broadens the aspect of equality, which the open Internet was first based on. The profound effects on the aforementioned players provide a supported purpose to regulate the notion of net neutrality.
The history of the internet takes us back to the pioneering of the network and the development of capable technologies. The explosion of the internet’s popularity of the 1990’s was large and dramatic, boosting our economy and then helped to bring it into a major recession. One can only hope that the explosion becomes organized and slightly standardized in the interest of the general public. Despite all of these conjectures and speculations only time can tell the future of the largest network in the world.
Fiber-optic wiring provides the fastest connection times, and high speed capabilities, this is also known as broadband technology. Broadband technology is not available in all areas. It is mostly centralized to high-income, and business areas that are capable of paying higher costs for the advanced technology. Rural and lower-income areas are not receiving these same capabilities as o...
Network goods are commonly sold by monopolies, or the controller of a specific market. The reason for this is because new companies in a specific network industry have difficulty, for they start with no network at all. This a...
The ultimate point of convergence I envision for the future is a single fibre-optic cable in our homes (perhaps brought to us by ShawTel?) as a conduit to what we know now as the Internet. Fad appliances like WebTV will be eliminated due to their inadequateness and will be replaced by integrated systems within a household. They will provide for our entertainment needs with interactive broadcast programs, news reports of only the stories or areas we request, and communication via a video and audio connection to anyone, anywhere in the world.
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PRIVATISATION - TELSTRA What are the advantages of privatising Telstra and how does this impact it's ethical conduct while striving to satisfy community expectations? I believe that putting important public assets into select private hands is not in Australia's long-term interests, and oppose the partial/full sale of Telstra for the reasons that the Government has given. The argument the Government has given for the privatisation and corporatisation of Telstra has been a budget conscious one where the proceeds of Telstra will provide a "one-off" opportunity to: 1) abolish Telstra's pastoral call rate and provide untimed local calls in extended zones in remote Australia; 2) increase funding for Networking the nation; and 3) pay off foreign debt left over by the previous government However, this is not true as the Minister, Senator Alston already has the power to direct Telstra to provide services and upgrade infrastructure (points 1 and 2). If the USO (Universal Service Obligations Act) or performance standards under the CSG need changing, then the Minister should invoke his power to direct, and these changes should be made distinct from any attempts to sell Telstra. Statistics also show that the sale of the first third netted a total of $0.37 billion loss to the Commonwealth. By the year 2000, it is estimated that Telstra earnings will exceed $2 billion annually. The Howard Government estimats an interest saving of about $2.4 billion per year. This doesn't take into account the income that will be lost to the government every year in revenue earnings from Telstra.
When the Internet was inaugurated to Malaysia by the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronics Systems (MIMOS) in 1987, it is for research and education purposes (Ramadass and Osman, 2012). However, it is later commercialised in 1990 and made available to the public in 1992 as JARING (Joint Advanced Integrated Networking) became the first Internet Service Provider (ISP). In 1996, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is launched and contributed to the development of information and communication technology (ICT) industry. At the same time, TMNet came into the picture as the second ISP and improved commercial and residential Internet access (APNIC, 2004). The application of modern technologies such as fibre optics like High Speed Broadband (HSBB), wireless transmission like WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, and satellite services, gave a further boost to internet coverage and speed.
The Internet is a revolutionary new medium that has provided people the world round a new medium of communication. In "cyberspace" as the Internet has been nicknamed, everyone can have a voice and it is relatively easy for one person to reach a very large audience. In addition to revolutionizing the way messages are broadcasted, cyberspace has also revolutionized peer-to-peer communication. E-mail and instant messaging have become a very convenient method of communication for many people, oftentimes replacing the use of telephones and conventional postal mail. However, the new methods of communication emerging on the Internet have also created a new communication medium for criminals. Many criminals have found e-mail to be a safer method of communication as opposed to the telephone as it is impervious to wiretaps. Instances of criminal use of cyberspace include espionage and drug trafficking. Cyberspace has also led to the rise of a new form of crime - cybercrime. Such crimes include child pornography and online stalking.
The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The Internet enables communication and transmission of data between computers at different locations. The Internet is a computer application that connects tens of thousands of interconnected computer networks that include 1.7 million host computers around the world. The basis of connecting all these computers together is by the use of ordinary telephone wires. Users are then directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web sites twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. There are many reasons why the Internet is important these reasons include: The net adapts to damage and error, data travels at 2/3 the speed of light on copper and fiber, the internet provides the same functionality to everyone, the net is the fastest growing technology ever, the net promotes freedom of speech, the net is digital, and can correct errors. Connecting to the Internet cost the taxpayer little or nothing, since each node was independent, and had to handle its own financing and its own technical requirements.
In this field trip, I am trying to find out the latest development of Information Technology and how these technologies affect our daily lives. Get to know about these technologies, how is it going to improve our lives in the further. This exhibition is about the next generation nationwide broadband network (Next Gen NBN). We get to learnt how Next Gen NBN improved Information Technology, as it offers broadband speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. With such high speed, more informations can be transferred in one second. This exhibition tell us about how Next Gen NBN improve our lives, work, Interaction and learning. In this essay I am going to discuss three technologies which I think has the most impact on us. They are Cloud Computing, Near Field Communication (NFC) and Telehealth.
Several benefits will be gained from this, as Jamaicans will have competition in the routing of data and voice traffic into Jamaica, using non-satellite infrastructure, which is a significant achievement in the development of a knowledge- based society. The provision of the fibre-optic networks will significantly enhance the country’s emergency telecommunications infrastructure and its capacity to recover from disasters, which affect the region from time to time. With reasonable priced cables, entrepreneurs will be able to invest in the deployment of domestic fibre networks, bringing retail services close to businesses and households, thus ensuring the availability and affordability of the necessary computer hardware and software.
The internet has come along way since its birth back in 1969, from its start as a government network to the everyday life; it has proven to be one of the greatest inventions ever discovered. It has helped many people with an array of task ranging from everyday government usage, and personal web pages to the ever so expanding horizons of technology still being produced today. Between the good and the bad, the internet has improved the way of life, and will continue to improve throughout time.
According to Dr. John O. Limb, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and director of the Broadband Telecommunications Center at Georgia Tech: "Within 10 years, we believe that a majority of homes in the United States ware going to be equipped with broadband communication pipelines connecting to a host of available services." (Goolrick, 2006). Besides broadband, fiber optics is another tangible that will have an impact on the average consumer and their home. New homes are already being wired with directly to optic fibers, which will take data transmission rates from 50 thousand bits per second to hundreds of millions of bits pr second.