The complexity of today’s networks seems to be in a constant state of flux, with TCP/IP and Ethernet networks designed and implemented to support data traffic now expected also to carry voice, video, fax and images. Network administrators also need to ensure that their traffic is secure.

Australia’s new government created national broadband company, NBN Co, has signed its 4000th customer, and while the company’s own internal projections had user numbers around ten times larger, the fact a government program hasn’t as yet lived up to its own projected milestones is a fact of life these days.

Melbourne – December 16, 2011. Gigamon®, the world leader in traffic visibility networking solutions, announced that 2011 was a record year for the company. Over the past 12 months, the company experienced significant revenue growth due to increasing demand for its traffic visibility solutions.

Global networking solutions vendor, Brocade has appointed industry veteran, Doug Ingraham to the position of vice president of alliances, with the responsibility for securing new business and overseeing the establishment of a program framework for the development of the company’s cloud ecosystem alliance partners.

SYDNEY, Dec. 6, 2011. Gigamon®, the world leader in Traffic Visibility Networking solutions, today announced that its GigaVUE® 7.2.29 has been evaluated by Booz Allen Hamilton CCTL and officially validated by the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) at EAL2+.

Honda in Australia has deployed Nimsoft’s monitoring solution to enable the company to increase the company’s visibility into the performance of its applications, network devices and virtual hosts and servers.

A student from Australia’s National Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence (NICTA) has been awarded for his work in developing a novel, low-cost transmission option for shorthaul optical links required for future infrastructure like cloud computing and video-on-demand from data centres and storage networks.

Sports footwear and performance apparel company, ASICS, has successfully deployed a highly-integrated security, routing and switching solution in its Australian business running the Juniper Networks Junos operating system.

Juniper has made available a new virtual environment that it claims revolutionises the way service providers and enterprises design, test and operate networks. It also claims the ‘first-of-its-kind cloud offering’ – Junosphere Lab -  allows network operators to create and run networks on-demand, enabling network modelling, testing and planning at a scale that is practically impossible to achieve.

Juniper has made available a new virtual environment that it claims revolutionises the way service providers and enterprises design, test and operate networks. It also claims the ‘first-of-its-kind cloud offering’ – Junosphere Lab -  allows network operators to create and run networks on-demand, enabling network modelling, testing and planning at a scale that is practically impossible to achieve.