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AARNet puts its first school on NBN

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http://www.itwire.com – AARNet - the network serving Australia's universities and research organisations - has its first school customer served via the NBN. (IT news)

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Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesA peering arrangement which will see Australia’s Academic and Research Network – AARNet - link directly to Amazon Web Services in Seattle and provide unmetered connection, is likely to spur the adoption of cloud services by Australia’s universities and research institutions.

Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARNet, plans to launch a free videoconferencing service for students, researchers and academics in 37 Australian universities and the CSIRO before the end of the year.

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Google has partnered with AARNet to bring the open M-Lab broadband benchmarking project to Australia; how will your connection measure up?

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I might be drawing a long bow, but rumours that Telstra is going to open up Next G to resellers have been circulating for months, and AARNet is definitely going to be reselling somebody's mobile broadband service.