In what it says is its biggest announcement in its 12 year history, Juniper Networks has unveiled: new silicon claimed to offer dramatic performance increases in its switching and routing products; new edge routers incorporating the new chipsets, a network application platform to enable Juniper and third parties to build applications on its Junos operating system; partnerships with key vendors to help it realise its vision, and a new brand identity to help it promote its sharpened focus on Junos and its expansion into the enterprise market.
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Avaya has announced the regional launch of Avaya Connect, the global revamp of its channel partner strategy.
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The ACMA has issued a discussion paper proposing the release of spectrum in the 5.9GHz band to permit the introduction of intelligent transport systems (ITS) for road users in Australia.
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Communications Alliance has announced further progress in its work to develop an architecture model for the National Broadband Network.
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Dell and Juniper Networks have formed a partnership that will extend Dell's data centre virtualisation strategy by enabling it to OEM Juniper routing, switching and network security products under it PowerConnect network equipment brand.
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Competitive carriers have turned up the pressure on Senators not to delay the passage of Government's telecommunications reforms, releasing survey results that they say demonstrate support for the measures among regional Australians.
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Telstra is almost certainly looking for potential buyers of its network assets outside of the NBN Company in a structurally separated scenario that would work against Government’s objectives for the telecommunications sector, analysts say.
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Telstra chief executive David Thodey has reaffirmed financial guidance for 2009-10 with low single digit growth and says the company is on target to achieve free cash flow of $6 billion for the year.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has accepted responsibility in the Senate for mistakenly releasing confidential information on the value of the Telstra network, and has today spoken directly to Telstra chief executive David Thodey on the issue.
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The existing Telstra copper network is worth between $8 billion and $33 billion – and the yawning gap is the difference between the buyer and seller.
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ICANN and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) have reached an in principle agreement for the UPU to sponsor the .post top-level domain.
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Shadow communications spokesman Nick Minchin has lashed the majority membership of a Senate committee that recommended telecommunications reform legislation be passed, calling its report arrogant, hostile and unprecedented.
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The Senate has called on the market regulator to investigate whether the Future Fund was tipped off about impending regulatory changes in the communications sector just weeks before offloading huge numbers of Telstra shares.
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The Senate committee investigating controversial regulatory reforms in the telecommunications sector has recommended the legislation be passed without delay, but not before Coalition senators put forward substantial objections in a dissenting report.
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Users of mobile phones and 3G wireless broadband services expect to be able to roam internationally, even if they don't like the charges. The first demo of international WiMAX roaming shows how far away the equivalent is in the WiMAX world.
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Government would have little choice but to introduce new regulations for the telecommunications sector if service levels did not improve, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told the Senate today.
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