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 […]
“Extraordinary Innovation” In Copper Broadband
Senior Nokia executive talks up copper’s ongoing role in Australia’s ‘mixed technology’ National Broadband Network. According to online technology media site, Delimiter, Managing Director of Nokia Oceania, Ray Owen, told the audience at the recent CommsDay Summit that Nokia is“very proud” of its work on the NBN” “We are firm believers in the national benefits,” […]
