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BankWest has a signed $2.5 million contract to outsource network monitoring for more than 1500 devices over two years.

Telstra has opened its new managed network operations centre (NOC) in Sydney’s CBD to manage some 1100 corporate networks for its enterprise and government customers.

Verizon Business is expanding its network capacity to support the evolving voice and data needs of its multinational customers based in, or operating in, Australia.

Australian ISP Internode is restructuring its top-level management in a bid to boost its growth rate. The South-Australian based company also announced it is preparing to “change gears” with the delivery of a range of new, as yet unspecified, video-based services.

There has been interest in carrier Ethernet for a decade or more and -- let's be honest --more than a little hype, too. In the early days, the focus was on how Ethernet was going to displace SONET and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy as a low-level optical technology.

Australian clothing retailer M Webster Holdings has completely overhauled its network moving away from a legacy PSTN dial-up service to an Ethernet WAN which has facilitated trials of VoIP, CCTV and door counter technology.