Here’s 8 crucial questions to ask yourself about your home’s electricity system. Do circuit breakers in your home trip often or do fuses keep blowing? A home electrical system has these built-in safeguards to prevent electrical overload. Too much current causes the breakers to open automatically or the fuses to melt. When a circuit shuts […]
China Backs Village Wiring Safety
An ICA China led project to significantly improve the wiring safety in traditional villages has been green lighted by the government. ICA China and the Guizhou Housing & Urban Rural Development Bureau have agreed on a Traditional Village Electrical Safety Demo (TVESD), with officials accepting the proposed copper intensive home-wiring model for each of the […]
Data Driven Copper
Copper and technology is a huge topic these days, especially given its capacity to drive demand. And the boom in global data is right on message. A new study by iXConsulting points to massive growth in data centre capacity worldwide and with ‘hyperscale cloud service providers’ a big reason why. Copper has always been a […]
Is Our Home Wiring Up To The NBN?
The nbn co. just announced that it’s testing a new diagnostic tool aimed at remotely finding out whether a home has any wiring faults and particularly copper telephone lines in fibre to node suburbs. While some critics have suggested it’s just a way for the nbn co. to try to find other reasons for the […]
NBN Best On Cable Says iiNet
Leading Aussie broadband company iiNet says NBN broadband works best on cable not WiFi. A recent blog by iiNet is not only a great primer on just what the NBN is and promises to do at home, but shows very simply why how you connect is crucial. As they say: “Let’s talk about connections within […]
Australian Broadband Supercharges Copper
Australia’s National Broadband Network-NBN-is turning to fast copper technology to deliver bigger speeds. The NBN Co-responsible for building the country’s fast broadband network-is partnering with Nokia to trial XG-FAST over the copper network. XG-FAST is the next generation version of Nokia’s G.fast technology that has been shown to deliver multi-gigabit speeds over copper. The NBN […]
Cool Japan
As Japan’s air conditioning market heats up, copper is helping it be energy smart too. Room-type air-conditioners are now an integral part of Japanese housing, often used in every room in the home and seen as essential for modern life. In fact despite warnings that the market had reached saturation point, sales keep rising-up from […]
Get Up To Speed On Speed (Before It’s Too Late)
It’s no coincidence we’re giving away Cat 6 data cable twice a day at our ARC stand if you can answer one of the “101 NBN Questions You’re Customers Could Ask You” (just listen out for our horn during the day & come running). Cat 6 is all about delivering fast, reliable, always on broadband […]
Lets Make Our Homes Power Stations
We now have all the technology to make our homes really energy smart says John Fennell The UK government says it wants smart homes and gadgets to be connected much more closely with the electricity grid. A plan they say will help even out the ups and downs of energy supply and demand, and save […]
Smart Home Walls Falling
For years one of the biggest obstacles to a real smart home market was the fact that nothing much worked with anything else. help make that happen. In other words companies tended to work in digital silos with different systems and gadgets often locked up behind proprietary walls. But that’s now looking like a very […]
Does The Smart Home Mean Business?
I realised recently just how many of the giant tech companies have moved into our homes…..Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung all have smart home systems, phone apps to help control them and digital assistants you can talk to or wave at. And they’re just the biggest. Lots of other tech companies, telcos and an army […]
2% Boost in GDP …..100% Boost In Opportunities
A new look at just what an NBN led surge in broadband speeds and access can do for Australia is a reminder of just how powerful technology will be. The Western Sydney University study says fast broadband is key to massive economic, urban, social and entrepreneurial change that could make Australia “the world’s most connected […]
