A Faster Future » Infrastructure http://www.afasterfuture.com Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:00:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Point Cook residents share tell of life in an NBN world http://www.afasterfuture.com/point-cook-residents-share-their-experience-of-life-in-a-post-nbn-world.html http://www.afasterfuture.com/point-cook-residents-share-their-experience-of-life-in-a-post-nbn-world.html#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:33:26 +0000 Editor http://www.afasterfuture.com/?p=501 For most Australians the data speeds promised by the National Broadband Network won’t become a reality for some years yet. But  residents of Point Cook in Melbourne are already getting a taste for a world where connections to the Internet runs at 100Mbit/sec. Point Cook is a test site for Telstra’s fibre-to-the-home trial network, with 1500 residents connected. You can read about their experiences in this story from iTnews. As the story points out, they are starting to answer the question of what we might do with 100Mbits/sec.

]]> http://www.afasterfuture.com/point-cook-residents-share-their-experience-of-life-in-a-post-nbn-world.html/feed 0 Optus hits 50Mbit/sec on 4G network http://www.afasterfuture.com/optus-hits-50mbitsec-on-4g-network.html http://www.afasterfuture.com/optus-hits-50mbitsec-on-4g-network.html#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:26:09 +0000 Editor http://www.afasterfuture.com/?p=503 While much of the discussion of the future of broadband services has focused on the Federal Government’s ongoing fibre roll-out, the commercial sector has been moving ahead with enhancements to wireless infrastructure.

Last week Optus announced a successful trial of a 4G wireless network running at faster than 50Mbit/sec using LTE technology, which is a significant upgrade from speeds capable on its existing 3G/HSPA network. A second phase of the trial including testing of interoperability with its existing networks will take place in Sydney later this year.

Wireless networks based on both LTE and WiMAX technology are crucial to the development of broadband applications and services. While fibre networks promise raw speed for downloading high-definition movies and interactive experiences, high-speed mobile services provide ubiquity of access and bring to life whole new classes of applications. Twitter for instance, and especially foursquare, would be essentially crippled were the not accessible away from the desktop. 4G wireless also makes broadband truly portable.

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