Posted on September 14, 2018
It’s taken almost two years to construct; involved more than five years of planning; seen 4,600km of undersea cable laid, at times kilometres down to the ocean bed; cost $US170m; and involved over 60 staff but today marks the fully operational start of Australia’s newest, fastest and most direct connectivity…
Posted on September 12, 2018
Vocus’ commitment to infrastructure that will secure Australia’s digital future was the focus of a Canberra parliamentary briefing, hosted by company Chairman Bob Mansfield AO. The Hon Mitch Fifield, Minister for Communications and the Arts and The Hon Sussan Ley, Assistant Minister for Regional Development…
Posted on September 05, 2018
Vocus confirmed today that its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) has been put into early service following a major service disruption on the Sea-Me-We3 (SMW-3) submarine cable between Perth and Singapore. In order to minimise customer impacts due to the SMW-3 outage, Vocus has implemented an emergency…
Posted on August 06, 2018
It seems that millennials are almost born with a mobile phone or tablet in their hands. The current generation is hooked on mobile technology, with 88 percent of Australians owning a smartphone and 66 percent of domestic households using a tablet to access the internet. This translates to our working…
Posted on August 02, 2018
Vocus Communications has been chosen as one of the preferred suppliers to the NSW Government for data, fixed voice and internet services, as part of the Telecommunications Purchasing Arrangements (TPAs) panel. Vocus National General Manager, Government & Strategic Projects Michael Ackland…
Posted on May 30, 2018
The modern data-driven business For businesses that manage their own data and application needs end-to-end in-house, there is an approximately 50/50 split between logical or cyber threats and natural or physical threats. This model also places the entire risk for both types of threats on the shoulders…
Posted on January 22, 2018
Vocus Communications is in the process of upgrading our core domestic infrastructure to support the early customer demand for Australia Singapore Cable (“ASC”), as the project’s ready for service date draws closer. The planned upgrade is designed to deliver an additional 8TBps of capacity across the…
Posted on October 12, 2017
Vocus Group Limited is pleased to announce the successful connection of its high-speed fibre-optic North-West Cable System (NWCS), to the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project and Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility located off the north-west coast of Australia. The North-West Cable System, recently constructed…
Posted on July 20, 2017
These questions were top of mind during a Roundtable for ICT and leadership representatives from mining, construction, education, banking and government recently. They joined Vocus and Business News to discuss where they perceived success in the future of cloud and connectivity was heading. The…
Posted on July 03, 2017
Vocus Communications has extended the capability of its NBN Network Connect product, fulfilling what we see as a major requirement for wholesale customers in the Australian market. Vocus’ NBN Ethernet Bitstream (NEBS) equivalent service now includes highly-demanded support for the IPoE protocol,…