Networking

Image: NBN The company responsible for the National Broadband Network (NBN) announced on Tuesday it was spending AU$700 million to create 240 “business fibre zones” that will cover 700,000 business premises. Being part of a zone will allow businesses to get a full fibre Enterprise Ethernet connection, as well as ...

Image: Supplied Ericsson announced on Friday that it has acquired Cradlepoint in a deal that values the enterprise at $1.1 billion. The Swedish carrier equipment manufacturer said Cradlepoint had SEK1.2 billion in sales for 2019, which is approximately $137 million, with a margin of 61%. After dragging Ericsson’s margins down ...

Image: NBN Aussie Broadband has seen strong demand with around 5.5% of its customer base jumping onto the 1Gbps plans the ISP began to offer in May. “In our view, much stronger [demand] than we actually anticipated in those plans,” Britt told the Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband ...

Victorian-based ISP Aussie Broadband is giving any customers it had at September 7 a chance to purchase between 2,000 and 10,000 shares as part of its initial public offering (IPO). “This is an unusual offer for a company to make, but it aligns with our value of being good to ...

Singapore will begin installing its satellite-based Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) network from the first half of next year, which will eliminate the need for physical gantries that currently stand on local roads. However, “slimmer” gantries still will be erected to indicate toll charges.  The country’s next-generation Global Navigation Satellite System ...

Singapore will begin issuing COVID-19 contact tracing wearables to all residents and introduce additional safety measures as it looks to resume more public activities in the coming weeks. These new measures will include the mandatory use of the TraceTogether Tokens or contact tracing app TraceTogether to facilitate digital check-in procedures ...

An Optus 5G installation on a power pole in Sydney. Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet For those approximately 420,000 households lucky enough to be in the Optus 5G footprint, the telco has unveiled a pair of unlimited data plans on Thursday. The first is an uncapped download and speed plan delivered over ...

Mesh Wi-Fi systems were almost tailor-made for the remote-working era. There are millions of people now working from home and making daily video calls, while also competing for a slice of wireless bandwidth with a variety of smartphones, tablets and games consoles. Increased Wi-Fi use can put a strain on ...

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto At the end of March, the Australian government took the decision to end in-person citizen ceremonies, due to risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Since that time, over 80,000 people have become Australian citizens thanks to a video conference link, the Department of Home Affairs has said. ...

Image: Cisco // Composition: ZDNet Cisco warned on Saturday about two zero-day vulnerability impacting the Internetwork Operating System (IOS) that ships with its networking equipment. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-3566 and CVE-2020-3569, impact the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP) feature that ships with the IOS XR version of the ...