This is a list of commonly used acronyms in the Australian Broadband Industry (and in most cases, the Broadband Industry in general).

The aim of this post is to provide a glossary that I can refer to from other posts about more specific aspects of the industry and how it works.

I’ll try to fill this out with better explanations and with more terms over time.

Right now the list isn’t (yet) in any sort of rational (alphabetic or category) order. I’m just writing ‘em down as they occur to me in the first instance. So this initial approach is just to get the ball rolling.

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Internode has just moved its staff email environment from an Open Source based IMAP service to Microsoft Exchange 2007.

For an organisation with a long history of preference for Open Source/Unix based systems, and something less than unconditional love for Microsoft, its an interesting decision.

I’ve decided to explain why we have done this (more…)