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About IBES

The Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) is a cross-disciplinary research institute dedicated to products, services, and innovations that maximize the benefit of new broadband technologies to Australian society. The Institute's activities cover a wide range of fields including content creation and delivery, delivery of remote health services and education, social networking, entertainment and broadband technology. Read more

Test Bed

IBES incorporates a test-bed laboratory using state-of-the-art broadband passive optical network (PON) and wireless to demonstrate triple-play operation of fully-loaded realistic broadband operation. The test-bed laboratory provides a vehicle for assisting industry players with network design and planning, product development and improvement, customization of products to Australian conditions, conformance testing, system integration, etc. The needs of SMEs are accommodated through the provision of incubator opportunities. Through a partnership with AARNet, the test-bed laboratory will be linked to other universities and research institutions.

In addition to providing a valuable resource to industry, the test-bed laboratory is a focus for research across the full spectrum... Read more

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News and Events

  1. 2012 Seed Funding Workshops and Application Information

    The Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) has announced seed funding to support future research projects focused on broadband-enabled products, services and end-user experiences. Seed funding will commence in mid 2012 and will generally be for amounts up to $50,000, but consideration will be given to requests for up to $70 000 if the request is well justified and includes significant in-kind contributions from researchers.

    IBES has identified four priority research and to help develop ideas we are hosting 'brainstorming' workshops, where ideas can be explored and developed between researchers with interests in multi-disciplinary research, IBES industry partners and research collaborators:

    Personalised and participatory medicine

    Tuesday 15 May 2012, 4pm-6pm, Richard Newton Rooms, Level 5 Electrical Engineering Building

    Citizens and government service prov…

  2. New PhD Scholarships

    IBES is supporting three new PhD students through top-up scholarships. The successful students were selected from a large number of quality applicants. The successful students are:

    Mark Merolli

    Health and Biomedical Informatics

    Managing chronic pain through social media

    Exploring how peer-to-peer networking and social media can be optimized to improve healthcare by empowering chronic pain patients and enhancing self-management. 

     

    Paula de Barba

    Psychological Sciences, Centre for the Study of Higher Education

    Motivation and autonomous learning…

  3. Seminar: Broadband innovation in the home

    What if fibre stops at your front door?
    Frank den Hartog

    Senior Scientist
    TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)

    Wednesday 29 February 2012

    4:00pm–5:00pm

    Richard Newton Rooms, Level 5, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building (193), The University of Melbourne

    RSVP: Fiorella Chiodo by Monday 27 February 2012

    Overview

    As broadband access networks and customers' home networks increase in size, scale, and heterogeneity, the managerial complexity for operators as well as their customers increases exponentially.This seminar will present an overview of the research that TNO has undertaken examining the interaction between these networks. It includes new …

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