Nortel Networks was disappointed to miss out in Telstra's recent round of billion dollar networking hardware contracts, but last week warned the winners they had better shape up or face being shipped out.
Networking equipment supplier Nortel's Australian operations are expected to escape the global job cuts flagged overnight, according to Australia and New Zealand president Mark Stevens.
Sydney's Macquarie University recently spent AU$1 million upgrading its network security and found the best solution was to remove the perimeter firewall.
Nortel Networks said it is eyeing more cost cuts to hit profit targets as investors wait to see up-to-date earnings for the telecommunications gear maker.
Networking equipment vendor Nortel will seek to do more business with Cisco stalwart Alphawest, capitalising on what Nortel says is a good relationship with the services company's new owner Optus.
Tennis Australia has admitted it paid a "hefty fee" to a scalper of the domain name kind in order to obtain the web address it wanted as part of a rebranding campaign.
Sydney-based optical components company, Photonic Technologies, has been wholly bought by Nortel Networks, exactly two years after Nortel acquired a one third stake in the company.
Lucent Technologies has reorganised into two main product divisions, part of the struggling company's effort to revitalise sales.
Over the past couple of months there have been both rumours and confirmations surfacing in Australia's tech sector of layoffs, downsizing, and redeployment. Is this just the start?
George Gilder is known for predicting the future of technology five to ten years ahead. His latest prediction is that communications will be the stocks to soar. According to Gilder, in the 'telecosmic' universe, a coming abundance of bandwidth will make optics companies "the Intels" of the future.
Lucent Technologies has given Wall Street indications that there may be light at the end of the tunnel for the financially besieged company, but some analysts wonder if the worst is yet to come.
Six years after the federal government proposed creating a second internet that would leapfrog the first with speed and technology, most users - business and consumer - are still saddled with the low speeds, transmission delays and the other quirks of today's Net
The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
Chasing Ballmer in Sydney
Where's Ballmer? In this video, ZDNet.com.au journalist Liam Tung chases Steve Ballmer around the stree… Watch it now
Footy Club Switches to Single Business Communications Solution
Proven data storage and protection solutions
Driving Business Growth Through Enterprise IT Management
NBN needs workers on board
D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
Opening the floodgates on missing drives
Footy Club switches to Single Business Communications Solution
Connect growing business demands using Next Dimension Working™
Click here to find out more about Telstra's single solution vendor capabilities
Find out how to combine network connectivity with mobile broadband and IP telephony
'At The Whiteboard' Video Series
Click here to learn more about Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V technology.
Click here for more.
CXO's Unplugged - Real Business Insight
Phil Dobbie interviews business leaders to reveal their thoughts on various management challenges.
Click here to see the latest video.
Printer Superguide
Looking to buy a printer? Our superguide rates the latest printers and shines a light into the industry.
Click here for more.
