The global financial market meltdown is driving mobile operators to optimise their assets, according to network performance management tools vendor Aircom.
“With the credit crunch, there’s been a little bit of a change of what we’ve been demand for,” said Margaret Rice-Jones, CEO at Aircom. “There’s far more demand for things that make the most of [...]
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AT&T threw open the doors of its Singapore super IDC yesterday, evolving a previous installation into a regional Internet gateway and local base for its Synaptic Hosting operations.
The carrier said the launch is part of a previously announced $1 billion plan to augment capacity at its 38 international data centers. It marks the first [...]
By Sonia Han, CommsDay
NEC Australia has launched an integrated SaaS application store, ‘Applications Net’, which provides third party and NEC-developed software and telephony services via a single portal targeting small and mid-sized businesses. Independent application vendors and developers will be able to add their software to the service.
The portal was developed at NEC’s Applications Centre [...]
IT infrastructure and services company Digital Sense has opened the first part of a new data centre in Brisbane, Australia which, it says, will eventually make up the largest and highest density data complex across the world.
Digital Sense claims that the Kenmore facility will be able to support the load of ten typical data centres [...]
By Sonia Han, CommsDay
Telstra has launched a new monthly capped plan for its enterprise and government customers which allows them to bundle their video conferencing with hardware, data access, connectivity and usage.
The service will initially be available for metro sites with plans to roll out to regional Australia in 2009. The new approach to HD [...]
By Sonia Han, CommsDay
NEC Australia has launched an integrated SaaS application store, ‘Applications Net’, which provides third party and NEC-developed software and telephony services via a single portal targeting small and mid-sized businesses. Independent application vendors and developers will be able to add their software to the service.
The portal was developed at NEC’s Applications Centre [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
Huawei has joined an environmental group for the ICT sector, making the Chinese firm the only Asian member of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative. With the move, Huawei hopes to influence the development of the global ICT industry together with other major players outside Asia.
“As people around the world are becoming increasingly concerned [...]
By Sonia Han, CommsDay
Hosted contact centre provider Global Speech Networks has said that hosted services can thrive in the economic downturn where retaining customers becomes a priority.
The company MD Nick Rodda told CommsDay that it isn’t all doom and gloom for the Australian ICT industry in the financial crisis. He said that despite ICT budget [...]
Cisco Systems plans to launch a consumer version of its HD teleconferencing solution next year. CEO John Chambers told reporters the company was confident it could crack the consumer market with “high definition capabilities for TelePresence into the home” by next winter despite a faltering global economy. But he may be optimistic.
The enterprise version of [...]
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Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]