AARNet trials free student videoconferencing

Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARnet, which sees itself as “almost a testbed for the NBN”, is planning a terabit per second communications trial next year and believes it will be able to offer network speeds of up to 500 Gbps to universities and research organisations by 2017.

Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARnet, is hoping to get an 80 terabit per second communications trial up and running later this, or early next, year as it responds to the dramatically rising data demands of researchers which are doubling each year. The organisation has also finally released its five year strategic plan, several months after it was originally slated.

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.

Written by: Stuart CornerA trial of high definition video to bring graphic design students and professionals together has demonstrated the educational potential of the NBN, according to AARNet.

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AARNet - the network serving Australia's universities and research organisations - has its first school customer served via the NBN.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: NetworkingAustralia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) is planning to roll out a service which will allow researchers to store up to 100 Gbytes of data in the cloud by April next year.

AARNet and Cisco have teamed up to enable AARNet member institutions to interconnect their Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing installations via a Cisco TelePresence Exchange.

The Australian medical community has taken another step forward with AARNET, Australia's Academic and Research Network, streaming a series of video demonstrations of gastrointestinal endoscopy techniques from Australia to countries in the Asia-Pacific.

AARNet and Google have made the first deployment in Australia of Measurement Lab (M-Lab) servers, a move that they say will empower researchers and the public with tools to better understand the performance of broadband Internet connections.