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• Vocus acquisition nets E3 Networks data centres

  Telecommunications wholesaler, Vocus Communications (ASX:VOC) has entered an agreement with E3 Networks to buy the company’s data centre business in Sydney and Melbourne.
  

• Vocus launches peering exchange

  Vocus Communications (ASX:VOC) has launched a “multilateral internet peering exchange” service, PacificIX, connecting Sydney and Auckland.

• Public Vocus scores record profits

  Four months after fibre wholesaler Vocus Communications Limited (ASX:VOC) sold for $20 million to a private equity firm and went public, the company has notched up a consolidated profit before tax of $5.69 million, some 501 per cent increase over the previous financial year’s earnings of under $1 million.

• Vocus Communications IPO oversubscribed

  Vocus Communications’ decision to sell itself to an ASX-listed private equity firm and undergo a public offering appears to have paid off, with the initial prospectus closing oversubscribed.
  

• Household brands could be NBN retail service providers

  Vocus Communications' new chairman, David Spence, has flagged the emergence of retail service providers on the National Broadband Network (NBN) as a growth opportunity as the company moves to list on the ASX.

• Vocus sells for $20m to investment fund

  Vocus Communications has been sold to an ASX-listed private equity firm for $20 million.

• ISP-level filter bad for industry

  The Federal Government's decision to implement mandatory ISP-level content filtering is a bad day for the industry, according to one of the founding members of the Australian Network Operators Group (Ausnog).

• Vocus renews warning on IPv4 addresses

  The call for ramping up the roll out of the IPv6 standard has been renewed with a warning the world could run out of IPv4 addresses by as early as 2011.