Comments on: Quiet milestone http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/06/24/quiet-milestone/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Francis Xavier Holden http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/06/24/quiet-milestone/#comment-358565 Francis Xavier Holden Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:15:24 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8759#comment-358565 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Robert_Elz Very (world) famous in the early net days - before you were born -was a bit of a one man band - both for good and not so good at times. Easily worth a PhD or a book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Robert_Elz

Very (world) famous in the early net days – before you were born -was a bit of a one man band – both for good and not so good at times. Easily worth a PhD or a book.

]]> By: Jacques Chester http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/06/24/quiet-milestone/#comment-358559 Jacques Chester Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:44:06 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8759#comment-358559 He was responsible for .au rules? I think that deserves a simultaneous knighthood and sainthood. He was responsible for .au rules? I think that deserves a simultaneous knighthood and sainthood.

]]> By: MikeM http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/06/24/quiet-milestone/#comment-358558 MikeM Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:37:05 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8759#comment-358558 And instead of a 56 Kb satellite link, we have three optic fibre cable ring links: the Southern Cross with capacity of 480 Gb/sec on each of its legs, one via Fiji and Hawaii to the US and the other via New Zealand and Hawaii; the Australia-Japan via Guam ring link, current capacity 120 Gb; and the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable from Western Australia to Indonesia, capacity 480 Gb/s. Pipe Networks is currently laying a third, 600 Gb/s cable Sydney-Guam, due to come into service in September. Cable capacities are rubbery depending on the number of fibre pairs currently in use in a cable and the band-width of each wavelength. What is currently in use may be more or less than the figures stated above, but whatever the current total, it is around 6 or 7 orders of magnitude above that of the original Elz-Torben link. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Robert_Elz" rel="nofollow">Robert Elz</a> deserves recognition for other significant contributions as well. For many years he was the registrar of .au domain names, and insistent that names have a clear relationship with the official name of the requesting business. Elz is currently at <a href="http://www.coe.psu.ac.th/en/faculty_staff.php" rel="nofollow">Prince of Songkla University</a> in Phuket. And instead of a 56 Kb satellite link, we have three optic fibre cable ring links: the Southern Cross with capacity of 480 Gb/sec on each of its legs, one via Fiji and Hawaii to the US and the other via New Zealand and Hawaii; the Australia-Japan via Guam ring link, current capacity 120 Gb; and the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable from Western Australia to Indonesia, capacity 480 Gb/s.

Pipe Networks is currently laying a third, 600 Gb/s cable Sydney-Guam, due to come into service in September.

Cable capacities are rubbery depending on the number of fibre pairs currently in use in a cable and the band-width of each wavelength. What is currently in use may be more or less than the figures stated above, but whatever the current total, it is around 6 or 7 orders of magnitude above that of the original Elz-Torben link.

Robert Elz deserves recognition for other significant contributions as well. For many years he was the registrar of .au domain names, and insistent that names have a clear relationship with the official name of the requesting business. Elz is currently at Prince of Songkla University in Phuket.

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