Optus has opened a new AU$1 million data centre at its Sunshine exchange in Melbourne's west. The facility allows businesses to locate their servers on the carrier's Internet backbone, reducing the cost of high-bandwidth links.
Optus has decided to lease a new capacity from another unnamed carrier to prevent a network disaster such as Queensland's loss of internet, voice and mobile services last month.
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In five years every organisation in the world will be running some of their telecommunications on an IP-based network, and under-developed nations are showing the rest of the world how to do it, according to Asia Netcom's president and chief operating officer, Bill Barney.
The Federal Government has launched a $AU14 million network designed to facilitate academic and educational research along Australia's eastern seaboard.
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Experimental network excels at long-distance collaboration; researchers hope to up ante with hybrid optical packet infrastructure.
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The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.
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