Date: 06/03/2017
NBN Co starts replacing FTTN in network rollout
ITNEWS, 6 March, 2017 – NBN Co is starting to abandon future FTTN deployments in favour of newer fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) technology. Updates of its online maps – captured by iTnews as part of a full reconstruction of the company’s three-year plan – show how FTTC is to be used outside of the Optus HFC footprint […]
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Date: 21/02/2017
The cloud is growing 7 times faster than the rest of IT
NETWORK WORLD, 21 February, 2017 – The public cloud just keeps on growing, with increases in spending on cloud services and infrastructure easily outpacing overall IT spending. And it isn’t even close. The latest update to International Data Corporation’s Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide projects worldwide investments in the public cloud “will reach […]
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Date: 13/02/2017
Australia finally has mandatory data breach notification
ITNEWS, 13 February, 2017 – Australia will have a mandatory data breach notification scheme in place within the year after several aborted attempts, following the passage of legislation through the senate today. The Labor and Liberal parties today united to pass the government’s Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 into law. Learn what the […]
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Date: 08/11/2016
NBN passes 1 million FTTN/B premises
ITNEWS, 8 November, 2016 – NBN Co has passed a milestone for premises connected to its fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-basement networks, with more than 1 million homes and business now able to take up a service. At its first quarter results briefing today, NBN Co revealed it had passed 338,000 total premises during the three-month period, and welcomed 280,000 […]
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Date: 25/10/2016
Australian IT spending to hit $85b in 2017: Gartner
ITWIRE, 25 October, 2016 – Growth in the software and IT services market is driving up IT spending in Australia to a forecast total spend of almost $85 billion in 2017 on the back of organisations undertaking major digital platform transformations. According to Gartner, the forecast figure of $85 billion (A$) represents a 2.8% increase in […]
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Date: 21/10/2016
NBN Co reveals ambition to become IoT player
ITNEWS, 21 October, 2016 – NBN Co has revealed it is looking beyond its government mandate to create an internet of things (IoT) business, connecting “non-premises infrastructure” like traffic lights and potentially offering wholesale compute and storage services. Principal technology officer for FTTx Daniel Willis told the Broadband World Forum in London overnight that NBN Co was […]
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