ICON, the Commonwealth's intra-government communications agency will be expanding its operations in the New Year and will be finalising a substantial multiple-vendor Request for Tender (RFT) tomorrow to maintain and expand its network.
Telstra has announced a cull in its access network supplier contracts, trimming 100 contracts and 100 vendors to three -- Service Stream, Silcar and Visionstream -- with a view to saving AU$140 million over two years.
Telecommunication companies and IT vendors are expected to compete heavily for the same Managed Network Services (MNS) market in the future, according to an IDC report.
The booming security market is heading for a bloodbath with both vendors and analysts expecting the number of companies selling security applications to fall from more than 700 today to just a handful by the end of the decade.
Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo has launched a service for smart-card handsets that lets customers use their mobile phone as a mobile wallet.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
I wonder whether you've noticed an increase in the number of CIO networking groups of late?
I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
More details on Telecom's XT network has been revealed, but why can't its wholesale partners have access to it?
Telcos would love to shift the cost of expanding mobile network coverage to customers with femtocells, but are they a good idea for customers?
Security companies rate their progress at protecting against network threats.
We look at the virtual machine software market's three principal players: Microsoft, VMware and Xen.
We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance.
In Java, you can test the physical database connection using vendor-specific APIs or a test-fail query approach. Learn which method is best for you.
In this case study, we look at how a software choice went awry, leading to an expensive headache instead of a much-wanted solution.
Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference.
In this case study, we look at how a software choice went awry, leading to an expensive headache instead of a much-wanted solution.
The 3Com OfficeConnect Gigabit Switch 5 is a tiny unit that compares well to the competition on price and power consumption.
The old adage "good things come in small packages" certainly applies to the QNAP TS-409, a silver and black cube whose small dimensions sport a raft of features.
With McAfee Wireless Protection, McAfee enhances last year's stand-alone wireless protection application with a few new features, however much of what you can do with McAfee Wireless Protection is available for free with Windows XP.
With the right packet sniffers you can truly lead the dog's life. What's most impressive is network monitoring devices will help you see problems immediately. These tools can aid in analysis, migration, monitoring, security, testing, and administration of the network.
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