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Copper
Sarah Basford Canales
Already the proud owners of 4,478 km in existing copper, NBN has splashed out on 21,078 km of brand shiny new copper, too. That’s a lot of copper!
“Bendy” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of crystals. Brittle and inelastic, more like it. But Queensland researchers have created single crystals flexible enough to be bent – repeatedly – and even tied in a knot.
The latest results from NBN lab trials of XG.FAST are in. Yes, that is the name of copper acceleration technology — an extension of Nokia’s commercially available G.fast technology — not an antiperspirant spray designed to boost your masculinity. Basically, it’s powering up the existing copper network to deliver fiber-like…
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