The parent company of fashion labels Marcs, Morrissey, Jigsaw and David Lawrence, has ditched dial-up for a countrywide 512kbps WAN, which has allowed it to deploy VoIP and track its inventory in real-time.
After one ISP reportedly claimed WiMax was a "disaster" that didn't perform, its network equipment supplier Airspan has hit back, defending the technology and labelling the ISP cheap.
With an election looming, regional broadband has once again found itself at the centre of a political battle -- this time, it's the Northern Territory's turn for a war of words.
Internet telephony provider Freshtel is pushing ahead with local expansion plans, and hopes to launch its "white label" VoIP offering through a major retailer before Christmas.
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.
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It's been promised for a while, but IP telephony -- using your network to carry your voice calls - appears to have finally become a sensible alternative for company communications.
An impressive set-up well worth the consideration for any small office looking to bring their telephony systems into the 21st century.
The 3Com 3108 is well worth considering in environments where workers spend much of their time away from desks without resorting to expensive to run GSM or 3G dependent mobile phones.
This is a full-featured home or small business ADSL router that'll comfortably handle all your broadband needs, including Wi-Fi, VoIP and ADSL2+. But don't expect it to be an easy task to set up the advanced features.
NetComm's NB6Plus4W offers good short range performance and management tools for a very reasonable price.
Fortinet has taken their proven UTM firmware and hardware experience and combined those with a 24-port network switch. While perhaps not suited to larger enterprises, the FortiGate-224B certainly represents an excellent proposition for SMB or branch office deployment and worthy of further research.
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