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Telstra has announced it has acquired the network assets of former inter-capital telco IP1 from its receivers, Korda Mentha.
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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A high-speed voice/data network takes lots of planning and patience. Hear how one IT manager set about tackling this task.
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Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
We look at three hardware tools and one software tool for network maintenance.
Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.
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