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 10, 2018
Remember latency? Around five years ago, as improvements to WordPress and other blogging platforms led to a mini-explosion in website numbers, latency was all the rage. The speed at which your website loaded was crucial to your online presence, businesses were told. This was old news for many larger…
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 September 03, 2018
Vocus Group Ltd (ASX: VOC) welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with the Northern Territory Government to construct a new fibre optic cable link between Darwin and the Tiwi Islands. For the first time, communities located on Melville and Bathurst Islands will have access to a reliable, high capacity…
Posted on August 29, 2018
Gone are the days where dialling into businesses meant going through a large switchboard, hoping the person you wanted to speak to wasn’t already busy talking on the phone to someone else. Nowadays people want video calling and collaboration, particularly in the era of remote working and fragmented organisations. Since…
Posted on August 27, 2018
Glass comes in many forms—glassware, mirrors, windows. But did you know it also comes in cables? And one cable in particular is going to dramatically increase data capacity flowing in and out of Australia. What is the ASC?The Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) is a 4600km submarine cable system…
Posted on August 24, 2018
Artificial intelligence was once the domain of science fiction movies, but in the modern world AI applications are rapidly becoming fact. Technology is evolving to the point where self-driving cars and smart digital assistants are becoming a reality, with many applications being designed to assist business…
Posted on August 22, 2018
It’s no secret that Cloud services are rapidly being adopted in Australia. From 2016 to 2017, the volume of domestic businesses adopting cloud computing services rose 19 per cent with almost one-third of enterprises moving to the cloud.This means there has also been a rise in the volume of cloud…
Posted on August 20, 2018
Malware, ransomware and other cyber security threats dominate the headlines while other regulatory deadlines, such as the Mandatory Data Breach Reporting Scheme are keeping CISOs up at night. So how can a CISO prioritise what to address first? The answer is different from most other IT projects,…