• Efficient and profitable content delivery for network service providers

    Service providers are striving to deliver the already massive and rapidly growing volumes of online video with efficiency and quality. In addition to these efforts, providers are seeking ways to control both OpEx and CapEx while creating new revenue opportunities.

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  • Building superior mobile networks

    Understanding and meeting customer expectations will reward operators with superior mobile broadband networks.

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  • Ciena: The Lean Packet Advantage

    Over the next five to 10 years, networks will need to handle 10 to 100 times the traffic they do today. The aim of OPn Ciena’s deployable network architecture and vision of how networks should evolve, is to bend the cost curve of networking down in the face of this ...

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  • Announcing the 2013 ACOMMS finalists

    A host of new telco players have become short-listed finalists in the communications industry’s premier awards for excellence, the ACOMMS – highlighting the changing face of the communications sector. Communications Alliance and Communications Day today announced the finalists for the ACOMMS 2013, which recognise exemplary achievement across 10 categories of endeavour. The ...

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  • Today's issue of CommsDay - available here for those affected by server issues

    Due to email server issues, some readers may not have received their issue of CommsDay in a timely manner this morning. So we have made it available here. In today's issue: A Senate communications committee has recommended legislation that could lead to periodic independent public reviews of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman scheme. ...

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  • CommsDay Wholesale + Data Centre Summit 2013: the full programme

    WHEN: 17 JULY 2013 WHERE: Heritage Room, Westin Hotel Sydney Australia’s telecommunications market is set to explode as LTE and FTTx access becomes pervasive across the nation. And the two largest beneficiaries of that are expected to be data centres and wholesalers: collectively a $6 billion market currently and set to surge ...

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  • This week's Crosstalk podcast: time to bring mobile into public policy?

    The NBN has dominated discussions on government policy, almost to the total exclusion of other telecommunications initiatives. Whilst the government has pursued its gold plated fixed line solution, Australia has become one of the world’s fastest adopters of smart phones. The mobile industry did this with little in the way of ...

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  • This week's "Crosstalk" podcast: Can Turnbull do a two-step?

    If Malcolm Turnbull sees fibre as the ultimate solution he will ensure his fibre to the node network is designed for what follows it. We know deploying fibre to every home is complicated. The ACCC’s involvement in copper pull- throughs is an example of that. Commissioner Ed Willet helps explain in ...

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  • COMMSDAY SUMMIT 2013: DOWNLOAD POWERPOINTS

    CommsDay Summit is over for another year but you can re-visit the powerpoints here. Southern Cross Cable Ciena Booz and Company Maddocks Vertel eintellego Adtran Equinix Telcoinabox Callpoint Spatial Verizon Juniper Networks Communications Alliance Optus (David Epstein) Amaysim Telstra Wholesale Kordia Solutions Sandvine AMTA Cisco LiveConnected F5 Networks Simon Hackett ACCAN Bob Horton Peter Moon (TCP Code) Ovum Squire Sanders ADVA Optical Networking Come back for more as we upload them                                          

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  • COMMENT: Why 5G will not go the way of LMDS

    Yesterday’s announcement by Samsung of a 5G wireless breakthrough in the 28GHz millimetre wave band likely brought wry smiles to industry students of historic hype cycles. It was nigh on 20 years ago that the same 28GHz band was similarly in play as the likely launch pad for a wave of ...

  • CROSSTALK PODCAST: Life in the old copper...

    Malcolm Turnbull has a point about FTTN. Copper is showing itself to be more resilient than many would have you believe. Copper is more than cable of delivering speeds up to 100 Mbps on a fibre to the node network, if vectoring is applied. That’s the claim on this week’s ...

  • This week's Crosstalk podcast: time to bring...

    The NBN has dominated discussions on government policy, almost to the total exclusion of other telecommunications initiatives. Whilst the government has pursued its gold plated fixed line solution, Australia has become one of the world’s fastest adopters of smart phones. The mobile industry did this with little in the way of ...

  • PAUL FLETCHER COMMENT: Finding the real cost...

    NBN Co budgeted $11.3 billion to build the network past 10.2 million existing (or ‘brownfields’) premises by 2021: that’s a cost per premises of $1100. The Coalition has been pressing NBN Co for some time to reveal its actual cost per premises on the parts of the network built to date. The ...

  • CROSSTALK: How to fix NBN Co's deployment...

    This week, with the Coalition’s broadband policy just around the corner, NBN Co’s rollout seems fraught with delays. Mind you, it wouldn’t be the first government sponsored initiative to run behind schedule. Yet, in this week’s CrossTalk podcast, Liberal MP Paul Fletcher asks whether the NBN Co management team really understands ...

  • COMMENT: Why FTTN is cheaper now than in 2007

    An article published on the ABC’s Technology+Games website yesterday has inadvertently emphasised how much of a winner Malcolm Turnbull might be on to when he releases his alternative NBN policy, possibly as soon as next month. The article, written by Richard Chirgwin, is headed “21 billion dollars: The cost of upgrading ...

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