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Countdown to IPv6 - it’s time to plan for migration By: Aaron Condon
15/12/2008 10:30:00
Questions surrounding Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) have been debated for the past decade, beginning with when and why to deploy. The network address space problem on the Internet, which IPv6 is expected to solve, also has been disquieting for organisations planning ahead for their future network growth. More...

Ch-Ch-Chatting with the South Pole's IT manager By: Robert L. Mitchell
03/01/2008 07:13:28
From the start, Henry Malmgren was determined to get to the South Pole. After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1998 with a degree in MIS he applied for a job in the Antarctic every year before NSF contractor Raytheon finally hired him as a network engineer in 2001. Since then he has alternated between the Denver headquarters and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, spending two summers and two winters there before finally working his way up to IT manager. Staying over is a commitment: Once the winter starts, there's no way to get in and out of the base until summer begins eight to nine months later. "I thought I would just do this for a single season, but somehow it always seemed too easy to keep coming back," he says. More...

Defying naysayers, Iridium finds a business model By: Todd R. Weiss
30/07/2007 08:25:43
Left for dead by many observers in the IT and telecommunications worlds just seven years ago, the reborn Iridium Satellite, which provides satellite-based communications services, is showing new signs of life. More...

Aussie Antarctic division looks to the Irish for SMS By: Julia Wasserberger
05/07/2005 15:39:23
An Irish communications company has demonstrated that there is no site too remote and no conditions too extreme with its recent installation of a remote GSM solution in Antarctica. More...

Intel employees put hotspot on the North Pole By: Scarlet Pruitt
15/04/2005 09:59:44
Intel is contributing to global warming, the company admitted Thursday. Not the bad kind, though. Two employees at Intel Russia have erected what may be the world's most northerly Wi-Fi hotspot 130 kilometers from the North Pole. More...

Opinion: Real penguins don't use Linux By: Steve Fox
23/02/2005 07:30:43
Talk about dedication! In preparation for "Microsoft and Linux square off in InfoWorld's Exchange migration challenge" -- a shootout pitting Microsoft Exchange against four commercial Linux-based mail servers -- Test Center Senior Editor Ted Samson took a vacation ... to Antarctica. More...