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University of South Australia
Encounter 2002 Lecture Series
Hawke Centre, University of South Australia
Explorations in Telecommunications:
Seeking New Frontiers
by
Professor Michael Miller
Professor Emeritus, University of South Australia
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Encounter 2002
•1802 - Baudin had no means of knowing that Flinders
was in the area - no telecommunications existed
•How have telecommunications developments changed
our society in 200 years?
•Benefits from British & French engineering
•Analogies with today’s new social experiment in
communications
mNet project - Adelaide as the hub of a new “encounter” likely to
once again transform social & business practices
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Early History of Telecoms
•1680 - English physicist, Robert Hooke - concept of visual
telegraph systems
•1780 - put into practice by French engineer - Claude
Chappe
•230km line of optical telegraph stations from Paris to Lille
•whole of France systems proved of great military
advantage
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Early History of Telecoms (cont)
•UK - mid 19th century - electric telegraphs began to
appear
•US -1845 - Samuel Morse - Washington to Baltimore
•South Australia - Charles Todd
- 1855 - Adelaide to Port Adelaide
- 1872 - overland telegraph to Darwin
•US - 1890- Elisha Gray & Alexander Graham Bell patents
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Recent Decades
•1960s & 1970s - founding of the Internet
•How have telecommunications developments changed
our society in 200 years?
•Benefits from British & French engineering
•Analogies with today’s new social experiment in
communications
mNet project - Adelaide as the hub of a new “encounter” likely to
once again transform social & business practices
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New Worlds -The Founding of the Internet
A network:
- a number of computers or other
telecom devices use a shared
medium to communicate -
eg ethernet system.
An intranet
- two or more networks connected
through intermediary systems
Typical Small Network
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What is the Internet?
The Internet: with a capital “I” is the global internetwork that links
businesses, universities, schools and public and private users.
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All messages/data are transmitted across the Internet use the
Internet Protocol (IP)
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A large part of the data also uses the Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) - hence TCP/IP
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World Wide Web (WWW) :
the browsing service/interface that enables
access across the Internet to a highly distributed, global,
multi-media database
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Total worldwide network
demand
Gbps
27645
30000
25000
20000
Data
15000
11328
Voice
10000
948
5000
135
1107
273
1294
588
1511
1572
4451
1766
2063
2411
0
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
Source: Insight Research Corp, May 1998
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“Wireless access to the web
will be the catalyst for a revolution
of the Internet which is as profound
as the impact of the original
wired Internet circa 1994.”
www.gartner.com
Mobility is the future of the Internet
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The mNet Australia Project
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Snapshot - the mNet project
$9.23 million from the Australian Government
$24m in-kind from the mNet partners, to:
•Establish wireless communication networks
•Undertake advanced wireless research
•Support development of applications
The network is part of a $30+ million project to make Australian
companies key players in the next wave of the Internet.
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Snapshot - the mNet network
Core network
 3G cellular mobile radio base stations along North
Terrace in Adelaide
 Base stations linked by optical fibre
 Wireless LANs covering selected buildings and spaces
Regional node
 Cellular network extended to Whyalla - to explore the
delivery of health and education services to regional areas
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mNet location of core network
North Terrace, Adelaide.
• A well defined microcosm of business, cultural
and recreational activity.
Retail
Entertainment
Government
Health
Finance
Education
Cultural
Tourism
Residential.
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mNet Stakeholders
3 universities:
Australian Developers:
University of South Australia
Aspect Computing
Adelaide University
BetterHealth Global
Flinders University
Chimo
3 Carriers:
Telstra, Agile & Airnet
Multinational ICT Companies:
Alcatel, Cisco, Compaq, CSC &
Motorola
DSpace
Imagination Entertainment
Knowledge South
Medical Communications
Associates
Also: SA Govt, Playford
Centre & The City of Adelaide
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mNet Research Programs
To develop core intellectual property:
Examples:
 Wireless LAN deployment in wide area networks
 Connection handover 3G/wLAN
 Third generation network architectures
 Research to support 3G application development
 Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)
mNet Corporation will commission research into the practical
issues that emerge in the deployment of advanced networks.
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mNet Industry Programs
To support application development in 6 areas:
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Conventions & Tourism (eg WCIT 2002)
Tele-health & other Health Informatics
City E-business / mobile commerce
Education
New media & entertainment
Intelligent Transport
The mNet network will enable Australian commercial developers to profit from
an investment in developing new mobile Internet applications and services
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Encounters in 2002
New adventures in telecommunications
 m.Net -an advanced Mobile Internet research
environment
• development of applications and services for the
new economy in a modern society
• Support for the commercialisation of Australian
mobile Internet technologies and applications
Positioning Australia to profit from leadership in the application
of next generation telecommunications technology
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