Western Australia's Department of Education and Training has inked a five-year, $35 million deal with Optus subsidiary Alphawest to supply Cisco networking hardware to schools around the state.
Legal Aid Western Australia will implement Hummingbird's Red Dot Web-based content management system with the assistance of services group Alphawest.
The telco's bid to become an end-to-end telephony service provider remains on course, but how Optus combines its internal culture and identity with that of a debt-laden takeover target has emerged as a litmus test of its future.
When the nation's number two telco Optus bought local systems integrator Alphawest in mid-2005, convergence was clearly the name of the game.
Western Australia's Water Corporation says it's not planning to sever Telstra as its telecommunications provider, despite giving Optus subsidiary Alphawest the nod for a state-wide IP telephony fitout.
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