Juniper Networks and Nokia Siemens Networks have received all regulatory approvals needed for their carrier ethernet joint venture, announced in June.
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Telstra Enterprise and Government has become an Alcatel-Lucent premium enterprise business partner and will offer Alcatel-Lucent's portfolio of converged communications products – IP telephony, unified communications and contact centre systems.
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Nokia Siemens Networks has demonstrated VDSL2 with download speeds of 25Mbps at a distance of up to 1500 metres from the local exchange by bonding two copper pairs, claiming it to be "a milestone in the industry." However the gains over ADSL2+ seem marginal.
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The Wireless Power Consortium has released a draft technical specification of its cellphone wireless charging standard ahead of interoperability testing scheduled for later this month. It could one day enable you to charge your cellphone simply by laying it on the table in the coffee shop.
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Although the 802.11n standard should receive final approval this Friday, there's more to come in wireless networking.
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People who repeatedly make non-genuine calls to Australia's triple zero emergency call number from their mobile phone now face the possibility of having it barred from making calls, except to 000, under new measures announced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
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Alcatel-Lucent is taking what it says is a major step to help service providers create a true multivendor gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) infrastructure, expected to be the technology that will be used for Australia's National Broadband Network.
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Alcatel-Lucent has demonstrated the next generation of its gigabit passive optical network technology, capable of delivering 10Gbps per node and its use to backhaul base stations supporting 3G LTE, the next iteration of today's wireless broadband technology.
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Nokia has released what it claims is the first modem designed for use with the next iteration of 3G wireless broadband technology - the Long Term Evolution, slated to deliver downstream bandwidths of up to 160Mbps.
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Optus has become the exclusive telecommunications sponsor of children's charity Starlight's Livewire initiative aimed at providing Internet access to chronically sick children, in hospitals and at home.
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ASX listed mobile content specialist, Mercury Mobility (ASX: MMY) is to merge with m.Net Corporation to produce "a new generation of mobile expertise and capabilities, targeting global mobile carriers, media companies and content and brand owners," and with their respective shareholders each holding about 50 percent of the merged entity.
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Azurn International (ASX: AZU) - a recently-listed Melbourne headquartered global company with a unique approach to unified communications and online publishing - has reached an agreement with one of the largest online retail groups in Europe, Freemans Grattan Holdings, to provide its Merlin and K2K collaboration products.
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According to Roland Dobbins, solutions architect for network security specialist Arbor Networks, distributed denial of service attacks are one of the must under-rated and ill-guarded against security threats to corporate IT, and in particular the biggest threat facing cloud computing.
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The Australian Government has published more than 30 submissions received in response to its call for industry input on the legislative framework for the National Broadband Network.
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According to telecoms market researcher, Heavy Reading, telcos will need to become much more sophisticated in the way they exploit the potential of all-IP networks to create service bundles for consumers: simply discounting the price for a bundle of services just won't cut it.
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gotalk says it has launched a national campaign to promote its new mobile service to the estimated 5.5 million people in Australia who were born or have at least one parent born overseas – a sector it claims has been neglected by the major mobile carriers.
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