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Pacific Internet (Australia) has re-signed the Hunter Urban Division of General Practice (HUDGP) under stage two of the Federal Government's Broadband for Health (BFH) programme and will now deliver managed network security on top of the broadband services already supplied to local general practitioners.
Pacific Internet has provided broadband to HUDGP - a representative body for GPs in the Newcastle and Hunter area - since November 2004. The group will now increase its investment in security, and has selected tailored Pacific Internet broadband plans featuring a managed network security component powered by Cisco hardware, called PacNet SecureSite.
Pacific Internet launched SecureSite in August 2005. It was billed by Cisco as "Australia's first managed end-to-end IP connectivity and security service to small and medium-sized businesses based on the Cisco Integrated Services Router."
For the service, Pacific Internet offers customers the Cisco 800 and 1800 series Integrated Services Routers as customer premises devices and provides a range of security services which reduce the amount of work and maintenance customers have to perform. Services supported by the Cisco IRS include enterprise-grade stateful inspection firewalling and an inline intrusion protection system with dynamic signature updates.
Pacific Internet said at the time that the service was the result of "six months of intensive trials and testing to identify products that were appropriate for both their smallest and largest clients".
HUDGP CIO, Chris Scott said that Pacific Internet was becoming more involved in HUDGP's Internet security, leaving HUDGP's Information Management and Technology team free to focus on GP's individual system needs.
"In stage one, my IM&T team were configuring and managing the Cisco routers supplied, but Pacific Internet has now taken on responsibility for delivering the managed security system, as well as 24/7 connectivity support, which we've been taking care of up till now."
Scott said HUDGP's three-year plan was to obtain funding under the recently-announced Managed Health Network, to create a community-managed health network that would link different health sectors in the area, including aged-care services, GPs, specialists, and the Hunter New England Area Health Service.
David Bass
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