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  • MyNetFone records increased profitability

    MyNetFone (ASX:MNF) has reported major growth across its business for the half year ended 31 December 2009, driven by increasing monthly profit and organic growth across its entire voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and broadband product range.

  • Haiti Wi-Fi network links relief centers

    The exploratory trip last month by San Francisco-based nonprofit Inveneo might have been fairly routine -- or at least as routine as things can be for a group that brings information technology to poor countries all over the world. Members of its team would go to yet another country and meet with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) there to talk about their connectivity needs and discuss ways they could work together to aid the local population. Inveneo, founded about five years ago, had done similar work with partners in 23 countries, including Rwanda, Uganda, Afghanistan and Nepal.

  • NewSat moves to reassure investors

    Satellite communications company NewSat (ASX:NWT) has moved to reassure investors over the future of the company with the issuing of a chairman’s address on the company’s financial progress.

  • Mobile traffic helps push up optical demand

    Demand for high-speed links to cell sites and homes will rejuvenate sales of optical network equipment this year and help to create a US$16.6 billion worldwide market for it by 2014, according to research firm Dell'Oro Group.

  • In Brief: TPG raises $65m

    TPG Telecom has completed an institutional placement to raise $65 million through the issue of around 41 million new ordinary shares at $1.585 – a 5.4 per cent discount to the last closing price.

  • Facebook sees need for Terabit Ethernet

    Facebook's data centers already need 100-Gigabit Ethernet and ideally could use 1-Terabit Ethernet, according to a senior network engineer at the company.

  • Mobile phone bans don't work? Try duct tape

    A new study by the Highway Loss Data Institute indicates that laws preventing motorists from texting or using handheld cell phones while driving haven't led to a large drop in the number of vehicle crashes.

  • Avaya launches post-Nortel roadmap

    Avaya’s post-Nortel acquisition product roadmap should provide clarity to Australian customers of both companies according to ANZ managing director, Rob Wells.

  • Queensland police, justice share data

    The Queensland Government is building a new high-speed network to improve access to data and information sharing across its police, judicial and corrective services.

  • Avaya lays out Nortel migration road map

    Avaya tomorrow will reveal a road map that shows how its customers – in particular its newly minted Nortel customers - can move to unified communications technologies without ripping out existing gear.

  • Date set for AusNOG-04 in Sydney

    The forth annual Australian Network Operators Group (AusNOG) conference has been set for September 16 and 17 this year in Sydney.

  • LG to demonstrate 100Mbps LTE modem

    LG Electronics MobileComm plans to demonstrate a next-generation cellular modem that can download data at speeds up to 100M bits per second.

  • Best practices for benchmarking SAN performance

    Storage-area network complexity can mask what might seem to be relatively benign issues that have the potential to build up and cause an outage or brownout. To identify trouble early, you need to create a SAN performance benchmark, an essential first step to setting up metrics to gauge infrastructure performance.

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