Telstra's $1.5 billion Alcatel-Lucent-led core network upgrade is 90 per cent complete, according to the telco's general managing director of networks and services, Michael Rocca.
Electricity utility Country Energy said this week that the due date for completion of its smart metering roll-out was 2017, despite plans to reveal the locations of a trial of the technology with IBM in the next two weeks.
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The nation's third-largest telco AAPT last week said it would begin migrating the rest of its customers to its new Hyperbaric billing platform this September, after stopping the process halfway earlier this year due to a wave of complaints.
Despite the rush by other providers to start selling so-called naked DSL, where broadband is sold without a phone line, the nation's third largest telco AAPT today said it would continue to hold back on the grounds that the product has been priced too low.
The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.
In this week's Twisted Wire podcast, Tasmanian NBN chair Doug Campbell talks about the roll-out of the National Broadband Network in that state, as well as its economic viability and the path ahead.
Sydney-based start-up Audinate is making traditional analog cabling obsolete in favour of TCP/IP-based networking technology. And it's doing a pretty good job so far, with its technology used by World Youth Day and the Sydney Opera House.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, so the old adage goes -- but is there such a thing as free Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi sharing company Fon thinks it has the answer, as does Google-backed start-up Meraki.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.
During the holiday season, snow isn't the only thing analysts shovel. With that in mind, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon Oltsik, takes a look forward on networking technology and related industry trends in 2008.
Former Stanford University professor turned technology executive, Craig Barrett believes that it's the duty of every large company to give back to society in some way.
As the place where all legislation governing New South Wales originates, NSW Parliament has more than your basic obligations when it comes to ensuring the security of its data. But how can a small government department, with just five network staff looking after a main office and network of 94 branch offices spread across the country, ever hope to keep up?
Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) reinstates a lot of the functionality that Microsoft left out in order to get Exchange Server 2007 out of the door last year.
Chipmaker will release its "LaGrande" security technology in the second half of the year with the launch of its second-generation vPro business desktop technology.
It's sleek and it's sexy, but still must contend with issues from price to typing speed and wireless realities.
Plans are being made to introduce new technologies that will increase reliability, security, and speed to wireless networking. Here are some of the technologies to consider when planning the future of your wireless network.
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