Telecommunications and data centre provider Macquarie Telecom Group is trumpeting the delivery of five successive years of profitable growth as it reports a 6% jump in 2019 full year revenue to $246.6 million from $233.6 million the previous year - but dampened by a 3% decrease in after tax net profit of $16.5 million compared to $17.0 million in 2018, due to depreciation.

By Sreeni Raghavan, CEO, TeleApps

For years, deploying a business telephony solution involved installing phone systems in comms rooms, dedihonycated cabling and handsets on desks. Controlled by a PBX in larger firms or operating as a key system for SMBs, this infrastructure delivered all that was required to support day-to-day activity.

UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology and US telecom Verizon say they have successfully showcased two-way inter carrier Software Defined Network network orchestration for the first time.