Gary Eckstein General Technology Australia, fttp, Internet, nbn, Smart Grid
The Australian government, in partnership with a few private enterprises, is spending $43 billion dollars on installing Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) to the majority of Australian houses with the aim of almost everyone having high speed Internet access within a few years (called the National Broadband Network or NBN). Australia covers a vast area [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 Australia, Australian, government, IEEE, Intel, Internet, Microsoft, nbn, networking, Patents, radioastronomy, Research, wireless, WLAN
Well done to CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization which patented a solution commonly used in wireless networking (specifically WLAN 802.11a, 802.11g and 802.11n). This Australian Government organization has agreed with various corporate users of its technology to a $200 million payout in licensing revenue. These users include Toshiba, Netgear, Buffalo, D-Link, Belkin, [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 Australia, fttp, Internet, nbn, web, wireless
One doesn’t need to be a ‘techie’. Just plain common sense makes it so obvious that the Australian Governments Internet Broadband plan (NBN – National Broadband Network) is ill conceived and wasteful to the extreme. Sure the need for wider access to the Internet as well as high speed Internet isn’t debatable. The method of [...]
