Australia remains the "broadband backwater" compared to other developing countries, according to IDC's newest forecast report.
Optus has launched Voice over Digital Subscriber Line (VoDSL), a new DSL product targeting the SME market.
Australian small businesses are turning to broadband plans designed for home use as better value than plans targeted for business use, according to a survey.
In a bid to grab a larger slice of the business DSL pie, Pacific Internet is now offering unlimited data transfer between two or more sites hooked up to its network.
Pacific Internet has released a Premium Business DSL plan with a 99.9 percent service level agreement-but you have to pay for it.
What many of us may have forgotten is that there is already a perfectly acceptable technology for delivering triple-play services voice, TV and data over a single cable and doing it cost-effectively and at high volume.
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.
The news this week that Canberra-based TransACT was going to start rolling out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services it announced in May, was at first intriguing.
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The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
The staple diet of new switches and broadband technologies has this week been supplemented by a healthy addition of notebook launches.
In an industry where products seem to change before they hit store shelves, the Dell Dimension series is an aberration.
Vicomsoft's Internet Gateway Enterprise Suite 6.6 (US$499 direct) provides an unlimited number of networked users with shared Internet access across nearly any type of conventional connection. The product combines the company's core software-based NAT router technology with a number of modular connectivity add-ons that, when considered together, provide a thorough and feature-rich solution for shared Internet access.
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