Remember last month when we told you that Australia was in the running for the world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array or SKA? Claire Connolly over at News is reporting that the NBN is a huge boost to the chances of us winning that tender next February.
Essentially, the NBN’s fibre network would allow the 25 remote array stations to communicate data quickly and effectively. While NBN Co hasn’t announced any plans for rollout in the areas of the array, a spokesperson told News that they were aware of the SKA and admired CSIRO’s work.
If the tender is successful and the NBN weren’t happening, CSIRO would have to upgrade some current fibre solutions, but there’s no way they could rely on the current copper infrastructure.
Hopefully by this time next year we’ll know that both projects are well underway, and Australia will begin its new path as a technological epicentre for scientific discovery.
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Vron
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 5:31 PMNBN Co: All Guns Blazing !
james_whatsit
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 5:54 PMbuuuuut, due to tony abbotts blatant stupidity, they will probably get cold feet and build it somewhere else :(
Josh
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 6:25 PMJust wanted to say your last sentence left me feeling all warm and fuzzy about the future, awww!
Paul
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 6:29 PMAwesome.
blah
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 8:13 PMGo Straya!
Mike
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 11:53 AMyeh mmroite but whats this gotta do with beer?