Telstra and Telkom Indonesia Enter Joint Venture

Telstra and Telkom Indonesia will form a new joint venture to provide network services in South East Asia. The proposed joint venture will be the exclusive provider of Network Applications and Services (NAS) in Indonesia for Telstra and Telkom Indonesia giving both companies the opportunity to build market share in the fast growing NAS market in the region. Specifically, the JV would deliver enterprise and business customers with managed network...

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New Cable to Link Vanuatu to Papua New Guinea

Iterchange Limited, a Vanuatu-based company, is expanding its undersea infrastructure with a new cable system spanning more than 3000km that will link the Pacific islands of Vanuatu, the Solomons and Papua New Guinea.  The new system, which will use Alcatel-Lucent’s submarine systems, will connect Port Vila, Vanuatu, to Port Moresby, PNG, with branches to Luganville, Vanuatu, and Honiara in the Solomon islands. The cable will initially operate...

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Telstra Tests 700MHz LTE with Ericsson.

Telstra has successfully test APT700 (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity 700MHz) spectrum using Ericsson’s new APT700 radio equipment. This marks another important milestone in the introduction of new low band LTE frequencies and the development of the LTE ecosystem. The first call on 700MHz was made on Telstra’s live network across two test sites in a regional location in Australia using a pre-release smartphone. Mike Wright, Telstra Executive Director...

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BT Increases its Fiber Rollout by £50 million

BT will invest a further £50 million into its commercial fibre broadband programme over the next three years. The funds, which are in addition to the  more than £3 billion already committed to deploying fibre broadband , will benefit more than 30 cities, helping to make high speed broadband available to more than 400,000 additional premises. Mike Galvin, MD Network Investment at Openreach said: “Our fibre programme is going extremely well...

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Swiss National Railway Implements HP TippingPoint IPS

Swiss Federal Railways has deployed HP TippingPoint technology to secure the national railway’s network infrastructure.  The deployment uses the HP TippingPoint 7500NX platform and HP TippingPoint SMS XL Appliance for next-generation intrusion prevention system (NGIPS).  “Even with strong security measures already in place, the highly sensitive nature of the railway’s network, along with the escalation of cyberthreats, presented a need...

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Google Cites Software Configuration for Friday Outage

Google blamed an internal system that generates configurations for a brief outage on Friday of its Gmail, Google +, Calendar and other online services. The disruption lasted 25 minutes for most users before engineers on Google's Site Reliability team were able to clear the error. An explanation and apology is posted here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/todays-outage-for-several-google.html#mo...

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Cisco Supplies 100G to Russia's Bashinformsvyaz

Bashinformsvyaz JSC, one of the largest service providers in the Urals region and in Russia at large, has deployed the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) and Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers in key traffic nodes. As a result, new coherent transponders were installed on DWDM-network multiplexors, ensuring data transmission at the rate of 100 gigabits per second per wavelength. Cisco said this type of transponder...

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Cisco to Expand Its Presence in Mexico

At a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Cisco CEO John Chambers confirmed plans to expand Cisco's presence in Mexico, including the recently announced Cisco Support Center, the expansion of manufacturing of advanced technology products, and the expansion of the Cisco Networking Academy program. Cisco anticipates direct and indirect investment of up to US $1.35 billion during 2014. Cisco will expand sourcing of advanced technology...

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