Networking providers feel left out

Construction of the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) may be a boon for the services economy, but local networking providers feel left out with two companies saying the government-owned business isn't doing enough for industry development, states Tech World.

Last week the Australian-owned Broadband Network Communications revealed that it is introducing broadband deployment technology which could be used by the NBN to save upwards of $10 billion.

At Melbourne-based networking equipment vendor Haliplex, CTO and founder Anthony Merry says local companies could have been engaged with more during the NBN planning stages, but “the whole thing was a secretive exercise”.

Profitability.net, a collocation provider, has selected solutions from Extreme Networks to roll out its Appica.com cloud service, writes TMCnet.

Extreme Networks' virtualised 10Gb data centre, cloud and storage networking solutions based on its four-pillar data centre strategy has been selected for the same.

Public and private cloud servers and storage will be provided with the release of Appica.com.

Exinda has released a new network appliance designed to address bandwidth problems in large-volume educational networks, the Journal says.

Exinda also entered a new partnership with Replify to extend the feature base of its new software release.

Large school districts or institutions with multiple campuses experiencing a lack of bandwidth for Internet access can either purchase more bandwidth infrastructure directly or turn to a generally less expensive optimisation solution.