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Vocus to buy Nextgen for $807 million
Vocus Communications is set to buy fibre network owner Nextgen in a deal worth $807 million. The deal will see Vocus pick up Nextgen's backhaul assets, including the North West Cable System (NWCS)...
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Schneider Electric, FKG Group ink MOU on Toowoomba data centre build
Queensland-based property industry construction, engineering and support services company, FKG Group, has engaged Schneider Electric to provide expertise for the development of its new Tier 3, 10...
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Megaport partners with Cologix in US, Canadian markets
US data centre company Cologix has deployed Megaport’s software defined networking (SDN) fabric in its data centres in major US and Canadian markets. Under the deal Cologix enterprise customers in...
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Trident selects Equinix data centres for Australia-Asia connectivity
Equinix international business exchange (IBX) data centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and Indonesia have been selected by Trident Subsea Cable for the cable’s Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in the...
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Spookfish driving national expansion in tie-up with NEXTDC
Geospatial imagery specialist firm Spookfish has signed a data centre co-location deal with NEXTDC to optimise its data processing costs and rapidly scale up to meet data the processing requirements of...
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Datacom launches ‘game changing’ data centre network
Datacom has launched a new national network connecting all of its data centres across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. The move, which Datacom says is a...
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Fibre and copper’s long term co-existence and common development
Will fibre ever replace copper cable? While intuitively you might say yes, the answer is that both will be around for quite some time yet. Telco site Networks Asia has republished a CommScope report on...
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Radient to ‘recycle wasted RF waves’ to recharge your battery
Imagine if your smartphone or tablet battery was smart enough to recharge itself using power from the radio waves it generates to go online. Radient says it can be done! Radient Micro-Tech. It’s a...
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Equinix completes ME1 expansion
Data centre operator Equinix has completed phase two of its IBX ME1 data centre in Melbourne. The US$28 million second phase in Port Melbourne provides an additional 1663 square metres (17,900 square...
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Oper8 teams with NEXTDC on colocation services deal
Oper8 has selected NEXTDC’s national data centre network for colocation services to provide its customers with complete, end-to-end IT solutions and access to secure, high speed networking across...
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Demand for data centre services pushes NextDC to profit
Strong demand for its data centre services has helped listed Data-Centre-as-a-Service provider NextDC (ASX:NXT) to achieve solid growth for the year to the end of June and to record a statutory net...
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Metronode seals data centre deal with ‘international’ customer
National data centre operator, Metronode, has sealed a deal with an unnamed, major international company, to provide 8MW of capacity at its Melbourne data centre. Metronode says the deal also provides...
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Bevan Slattery launches ‘Cloudscene’ data centre, cloud services directory
Tech entrepreneur Bevan Slattery has launched yet another new business, this time a directory of thousands of data centres and cloud and Internet service providers. Slattery, the founder of Megaport,...
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Telnyx partners with Equinix on next generation VoIP services expansion
VoIP wholesale service provider Telnyx has partnered with global data centre operator Equinix to expand Telnyx’s high-performance platform to Europe and Asia. Ian Reither, co-founder and chief...
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NextDC to build second Sydney data centre to meet growing demand
National data centre operator NextDC is planning to build a second Sydney data centre to meet what it says is growing demand in the Sydney market for data centre services. The company will fund the...
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TechnologyOne selects NetApp for its SaaS cloud offering
TechnologyOne has implemented NetApp Private Storage (NPS) on a FlexPod data centre platform with MetroCluster to help reduce costs and increase performance for its global customers. TechnologyOne,...
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Megaport, Digital Realty partner to enable ‘Service Exchange’
Megaport, the company founded by high-profile serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery, is to use its SDN-based elastic fabric interconnection solution to power Digital Realty’s Service Exchange, a solution...
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Startup Talk To You Soon using NextDC data centre to underpin growth
Sydney-based telecommunications services provider, Talk To You Soon, has set up a point of presence at NextDC’s Sydney data centre as the company looks to expand its infrastructure for future growth...
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Emerson back-up system helps protect data in SA power blackout
When the lights went out in South Australia and the entire state was hit by power outages, energy infrastructure provider Emerson Network Power required a rapid response to calls for assistance from...
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OVH to set up shop in Australia
France-based hosting company OVH is coming to Australia. OVH, which claims to be the world's number three hosting company, is moving into the Asia Pacific market with data centres in Sydney and...
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