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Telco provider Superloop has announced it will be supporting Ixom until at least 2028, with the water treatment and chemical distributor giant signing an expanded services contract xtending for a further three years.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire chatted with Nick Gurney, Director of Telecommunications at BAI Communications Australia, to get his views on the Australian telecommunications landscape and the activities of BAI on both the local and global stage.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire chatted with Nick Gurney, Director of Telecommunications at BAI Communications Australia, to get his views on the Australian telecommunications landscape and the activities of BAI on both the local and global stage.

GUEST OPINION: While the rapid advance of 5G communications delivers comprehensive benefits for communication service providers (CSPs), the new technology also presents challenges in security and cost.

Japanese ICT giant Fujitsu has signed a three-year contract with the Australian Department of Defence to uplift and modernise Defence’s existing and planned future ICT environments.

Optus has switched on its 100th mobile black spot tower, with a newly activated tower going live at the south east Queensland town of Boreen Point, as it works towards its goal of delivering a total of 47 mobile black spot sites across Queensland.

Banking group Westpac is collaborating with NBN Co and Cisco to rollout new technology in all its branches across Australia, as part of an infrastructure transformation program designed to deliver efficiencies and improve employee and customer experience.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT:  Buying network infrastructure from a carrier may be convenient, but often comes at a considerable cost, as it is many times accompanied by higher fees, complex to scale, and reliance on a third party for resolving technical issues.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT:  Buying network infrastructure from a carrier may be convenient, but often comes at a considerable cost, as it is many times accompanied by higher fees, complex to scale, and reliance on a third party for resolving technical issues.

The NSW Government has started a tender process for its $100 million Gig State project aimed at delivering new network infrastructure and a boost to internet capacity for regional communities and businesses in the State.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION by Adam Fuoss*, vice president technical sales Silver Peak: Implementing SD-WAN is hard. Among the promise and hype of automation, dynamic path selection, zero-touch provisioning and a cloud-ready WAN, lies a trail of failed SD-WAN projects. Others are struggling on life support.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION* by Adam Fuoss, vice president technical sales Silver Peak: Implementing SD-WAN is hard. Among the promise and hype of automation, dynamic path selection, zero-touch provisioning and a cloud-ready WAN, lies a trail of failed SD-WAN projects. Others are struggling on life support.

Nokia and United Arab Emirates telecommunications services group Etisalat have claimed a capacity record with the trial of a world first field trial of single-carrier terabit-per-second data transmission on a deployed fibre network.

Juniper Networks has partnered with French managed services provider PYXYA to provide its Contrail SD-WAN solution to meet what it says is growing enterprise demand for secure branch connectivity.

Worldwide 5G wireless network infrastructure revenue will reach US$4.2 billion in 2020 - an 89% increase from 2019 revenue of US$2.2 billion – according the latest forecast on the market from analyst firm Gartner.

Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom has signed a three-year, $1 million-plus deal to deploy its business class NBN service to Regional Australia Bank.

Nokia and Optus have inked a five-year agreement under which Nokia will manage and maintain key components of Optus' network infrastructure, operations and field maintenance.

Digitisation of the world comes at a cost, with a new report estimating that data breaches and cybercrime will cost businesses around the globe a whopping $2.1 trillion by 2019 – four times the cost of breaches this year.

Sydney-based high-end hosted services provider RackCorp has started transitioning its data centre operations to a new network foundation based on advanced Ethernet fabric infrastructure from Brocade.

Sydney-based IT and telecommunications company, Anittel Group is continuing negotiations on a transition plan after entering into an agreement with listed carrier BigAir Group for the sale of its general hosting and network infrastructure and carrier business for a cash consideration of $6.5 million.