There’s a shift in Australia at the moment away from organisations using high-end, expensive MPLS network services from the big providers, towards consumer grade internet services for enterprise WAN connectivity.
Configuring, maintaining and changing WAN infrastructure can be a nightmare given the distributed nature of the beast and all the remote touch points, but emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools promise to make these operations more efficient.
Bauer Media has broken from Nine Entertainment Group shared services with a new stand-alone network from Azzurri Communications.
The Northern Territory government has extended three networking contracts with NEC Australia for 12 months.
While much of the hype for software-defined networking is focused on large-scale data center deployments, some companies are taking a different angle.
There comes a time in most businesses when circumstances dictate that one or more users work from home either full- or part-time. In other cases, it may simply be convenient for business owners and employees to be able to use company resources from home or (unfortunately) while on vacation.
The chief executive of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) said today that any transfer of IPv4 addresses from one organization to another will need to be compliant with established ARIN policy.
Construction company McNab has moved to upgrade its WAN and LAN after an increased need to scale its IT systems emerged.
A decision to replace its IT network 18 months ago proved fortuitous for Victorian-based Catholic social services organisation, Centacare, when the heavens opened over the state in January.
There are basically two ways to cut WAN costs: reduce the amount of bandwidth used or find somebody who sells cheaper bandwidth.
The expansion of engineering consulting firm Aurecon’s global wide area network (WAN) has been vital to the company’s international reach, according to its global CIO.
Verizon is tripling the top speed of its FiOS broadband to 150Mbps. The move makes Verizon FiOS the fastest broadband service available, and opens up new possibilities for small and medium businesses that rely on consumer-grade broadband connections.
Telstra has won a five-year, $62.5 million contract to provide a new managed IP data network, Wide Area Network (WAN)and managed network security to AGL Energy. The IP data network will become the backbone of the contract and the new WAN, which will replace AGL’s three incumbent data networks, will connect to Telstra’s Next G network. It is expected to increase the energy company’s capacity between its 12 mains sites by four to 10 times and will simultaneously support data, voice and video communications.
IT managers who are getting started with -- or even pushing the limits of -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their LANs and data centers won't have to wait long for higher speed connectivity.
Guaranteeing application performance over a WAN is hard enough. Now try doing it in a virtual environment.