Airservices sinks $4m into microwave network upgrade
Airservices Australia is upgrading its digital microwave network after awarding Alcatel the contract to supply it with more than $4 million in equipment and services.
Airservices Australia is upgrading its digital microwave network after awarding Alcatel the contract to supply it with more than $4 million in equipment and services.
The Department of Health and Aged Care dumped its 3Com NICs (network interface cards) late last year in an $80,000 NIC reshuffle.
Just when you thought the buying spree was over, Lucent appears set to buy Ascend for about $20 billion, billed as one of the industry's largest ever deals. But to many observers the news is no surprise. Leading networking vendors such as Cisco, Nortel Networks and Lucent continue the chase to acquire rivals or a start-up company worth adding to the list.
An incorrect networking prescription cost an early adopter of Cisco's much-hyped voice-over-IP strategy four months of pain, the user revealed last week.
Xylan this week announced plans to capture more ground in the small to medium enterprise (SME) market, chasing what it describes as user demand for technology, not vendor hype.
Cisco Australia is planning to hold off its attack on the local consumer markets until at least the year 2000, preferring to watch and learn from its US counterparts.
OzEmail yesterday revealed it has tracked the source of a hacker attack on its international network last Friday to two US-based service providers.
Novell's self-proclaimed "turn-around expert" is tired of the IT industry's Microsoft vs. anyone attitude, but refuses to play a tit-for-tat slanging match with the vendor.
Hutchison Telecoms' $340-million deal with Samsung Electronics to build Australia's fourth mobile network is set to leverage growing user frustration with existing mobile service operators.
The Sydney NetWare Users Group (SNUG) yesterday warned Novell it is too quiet in the face of Microsoft's marketing onslaught and must adopt aggressive new tactics in 1999.
ICO Global Communications is preparing to launch its $US4.8 billion global mobile satellite telecommunications service by August 2000 in a move aimed squarely at its competitor Iridium.
Alcatel is boosting its commitment to telecommunications research with the launch last Friday of its $10 million Intelligent Networks (IN) Centre of Expertise.
The networking industry loves good debate, gossip and scandal. Enterprise deals are full of rumours, innuendo, and the constant reshaping of vendors' images.
The Australian Tourist Commission (ATC) last week completed a multimillion-dollar international data communications network installation as part of its aggressive plan to capture global tourism.
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