The University of Technology, Sydney has signed a new agreement for hardware from networking vendor Alcatel-Lucent as the institution continues to move old Cisco equipment off the premises.
Telstra has a "substantial" footprint of next-generation ADSL2+ technology in its telephone exchanges, but remains unwilling to offer the upgraded broadband service to customers, the telco said yesterday.
Enterprise-grade Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hardware vendor ShoreTel formally opened its doors in Australia today, with at least one significant local customer win already under its belt.
Australia's enterprise IP telephony market grew 98 percent in 2004 compared to 2003, according to the latest report from International Data Corp (IDC).
Nortel Networks was disappointed to miss out in Telstra's recent round of billion dollar networking hardware contracts, but last week warned the winners they had better shape up or face being shipped out.
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The coming glut of 100Gbps Ethernet shows that the potential growth of the National Broadband Network is limited only by the laws of physics and the laws of Parliament.
Like many reporters engaged in the shady business of covering the Australian telecommunications sector, I spent Friday, 6 October, at Telstra's mammoth eight hour investor briefing in Sydney.
Last week I gained first hand insight into how one of the up and comers in networking is putting price pressure on heavyweights like Cisco, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.
There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.
Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.
There's a certain ridiculousness to Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network video production that goes to the heart of an obvious worry that it will ultimately be left out when the cheques are signed.
Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.
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