One of the most radical developments in the mobile phone industry was revealed during the GSMA Macau show last month, with Bharti Airtel CEO Manoj Kohli saying that the operator has literally outsourced everything except the marketing of services.
Faced with limited disposable income from India’s population, Bharti Airtel has had to develop a new […]

The proliferation of video and other forms of rich media is changing the nature of networks today, a trend that calls for a new generation of equipment and technologies at the network level, says Cisco.
The company announced at its C-Scape annual analysts briefing event yesterday, what it calls its medianet strategy, which will provide the […]

The emergence of cloud and grid computing across the globe is giving birth to a new business, one that registered and connects massive networks of computing resources with organizations that require those resources.
In an article published by International Science Grid This Week, author Danielle Venton at EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-Science), an European Commission co-funded […]

By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay
New research has warned that increasing demands for broadband capacity will lead to surging energy requirements, threatening to choke internet speeds. The internet power consumption model developed by the University of Melbourne also suggested that the situation can be averted – but only if industry and governments begin to act now.
Presented at […]

Increased flexibility and efficiency, as well as disaster recovery requirements will drive the adoption of its newly launched Synaptic Hosting platform in Singapore, says AT&T.
As part of a US$1 billion investment commitment for 2008 to its global network infrastructure, AT&T recently upgraded its Singapore data centre to a so-called, Super IDC (Internet data centre), which […]

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 […]

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 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 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 […]