A year after losing its last chief executive, voice over internet provider Engin has filled the role internally.
Hewlett-Packard and its partner Astron Technology have picked up a multimillion-dollar deal to continue a services and products relationship with engineering and construction firm AJ Lucas.
Supermarket clearance chain Not Quite Retail (NQR) finally decided to ditch dial-up internet for its chain of 26 stores and headquarters in March, instead signing up for an Ethernet WAN connection from Uecomm.
Telco AT&T has sealed the deal of a lifetime, with American car maker General Motors agreeing to pay almost US$1 billion (AU$1.26 billion) for networking services over the next five years.
Australia's third largest telecommunications carrier aims to simplify its product range, increase its salesforce and improve its image, as the company refocuses on the small business and consumer markets.
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The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
Somewhere along the line, it became assumed that xDSL technologies -- which run over the last-mile of wiring so tightly controlled by Telstra -- were the only way forward for Australian broadband.
In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.
It may have had its share of teething pains, but medical clinic chain Medi 7 has used its VoIP and open source Asterisk PABX rollout to improve call routing and slash thousands of dollars in telecommunications costs.
For Western Australia's DVG Automotive Group, the ability to move phone calls over a data network was just the beginning of a VoIP project that's on track to pay for itself in as little as seven months.
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Millennium's New Zealand-based vice president for IT, Eli Salant, reveals how he's convinced board members to spend on technology instead of refurbishments, achieving savings of nearly US$800,000 a year with Voice over IP.
If you want to use Cisco for your corporate IP telephony network but can't afford a 7900 series phone for everyone, it's a no-brainer to check out the lower-specced 6900 series.
By being very easy to configure and manage, the 3CX Phone System for Windows scores well on functionality and is compatible with most SIP handsets, gateways and services. However scalability could be an issue for larger organisations.
While being a leader in most areas of IP telephony, Avaya have previously been lacking in support for the smaller end of the market. That's set to change, however, thanks to the introduction of the new Avaya IP Office, a VoIP solution which caters from as little as two users right through to 360 users per server.
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