Equinix is taking its Australian customers to the edge, providing Network Edge Services via Sydney. Network Edge Services (NES) provides virtual network services, enabling enterprises to deploy network functions virtualisation from multiple vendors to connect their digital supply chains at… Read More ›
A UN-backed report on global broadband access has uncovered an urgent need to improve global connectivity, with traditional strategies failing to enable the remaining half of the global population to get online. According to the State of Broadband 2019: Broadband as… Read More ›
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has hailed newly implemented measures to deal with mobile number fraud. Flagging mobile number fraud as the gateway to identity theft the authority said the issue occurs when scammers steal personal details to gain… Read More ›
Telstra chairman John Mullen used this week’s AGM to play up the telco’s ‘T22’ turnaround strategy – unveiled in June 2018 – dubbing it ‘the most radical and ambitious [transformation] being undertaken by any communications company in the world today’…. Read More ›
Consumers and businesses are set to benefit enormously from the exponential network improvements promised by 5G. More than just an incremental upgrade, 5G will create opportunities for the most exciting science fiction inventions to become science facts. It will lead… Read More ›
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is set to review whether Australians can access basic broadband plans at fair and affordable prices, as part of an inquiry into NBN wholesale charges. The inquiry will examine wholesale prices paid by retail… Read More ›
This week Telecom Times will be reporting from Broadband World Forum 2019 in Amsterdam. The event – from 15-17 October 2019|RAI, Amsterdam in the Netherlands – is themed Separate fact from fiction, Cut through industry hype and get real answers to… Read More ›
Software-as-a-Service renewal firm Renewtrak has flagged the upcoming opening of its new global headquarters in Palo Alto, to underpin strong early demand for its offerings which are aimed squarely at the tech industry. “We’re about to go on a recruitment drive… Read More ›
Brisbane-based elastic fibre provider Superloop has entered into a strategic partnership with Australian enterprise-grade network specialist Comscentre to deliver a suite of network, hosted and managed services. Superloop said under the collaboration its own metro fibre network allowed Comscentre to deliver… Read More ›
Network security is not only a top boardroom priority, but ensuring the protection of corporate data moving from the edge network out to the cloud and back is not an easy task, given today’s complex hybrid-cloud architectures. Network security… Read More ›
NBN Co has received a slap down from the ACCC for discriminating between RSPs and for providing Macquarie Telecom with pricing details months ahead of its competitors. The government-owned wholesaler has been given a formal warning over the discrimination with… Read More ›
Australia and the United States have begun negotiations which could see law enforcement and security agencies on both sides of the Pacific gaining access to data held on cloud platforms in the other country. Formal negotiations for a bilateral agreement… Read More ›
Apstra, Darktrace, Everactive, Guardicore, NetFoundry, and Odo Security were some of the companies taking out top honours at the NetEvents Innovation Awards 2019 – Cloud/Datacenter, IoT & CyberSecurity The awards – presented at the annual NetEvents Global IT Summit in San Jose… Read More ›
MEF and IT business leaders group ONUG will join forces to make sure enterprises are provided with communications services that are optimized for digital transformation in the multi-cloud era. Under the collaboration, MEF will leverage ONUG’s hybrid multi-cloud enterprise end… Read More ›
Sunnyvale-based computer networking specialist Mellanox Technologies has unveiled it’s focusing on dramatically rising demand for secure cloud Ethernet services by a broad sweep of customers including hyperscalers, as cloud, e-commerce, and social media enterprises are increasingly able to access to… Read More ›
The whole purpose for building technology in the first place is all about the human experience. That’s really what drives our need for digital transformation – it always has and it most probably always will. Technology is just one aspect,… Read More ›
Multi-cloud is giving CIOs headaches according to a new report, which found that application experience is suffering as a result of companies increasingly using more than one pubic cloud in conjunction with a private cloud infrastructure. The survey, conducted by… Read More ›