Wellington gets WiMax service
Wireless internet provider nzwireless has launched a WiMax service in central Wellington and the Hutt Valley, following a six-month trial involving new and existing customers.
View ArticleTelecom’s rivals prepare for a new market
Telecom may have gone quiet on its plans ahead of Communications Minister David Cunliffe’s industry regulations coming into effect, but its smaller ISP rivals are in a frantic spin trying to bump up...
View ArticleThe wacky, weird world of not peering
Would it make sense for courier packages being sent overnight across Wellington City to travel via Auckland, or to Australia — or even the US and back, before delivery? It makes no more sense for...
View ArticleSmart buildings need smart networks: vendor
Network managers could miss out on significant energy and infrastructure savings by not planning for convergence beyond data, voice and video, a network supplier has claimed.
View ArticleBusiness hails revamped government IP policy
Local development shops have received a late Christmas present from the State Services Commission in the form of a government policy vesting intellectual property developed during IT contracts with...
View ArticleCisco touts IP-based emergency systems
During a major emergency, the first 72 hours are the most critical time for communications, says Jeff Critser, Cisco’s senior advisor for homeland security and a keynote speaker at a recent emergency...
View ArticleOur digital age is turning into an IP land-grab
This week the paper is full of stories about copyright and intellectual property. We have more on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations (pages 1 and 9) and an...
View ArticleReconciling IP regimes difficult, says ACTA negotiator
There will be problems accommodating national differences in intellectual property legislation to develop an international anti-counterfeiting treaty, says George Wardle, the Ministry of Economic...
View ArticleACTA submitters split over IP protection
Submissions to the Ministry of Economic Development on the controversial proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) differ over the effect of counterfeiting and piracy on the economy.
View ArticleVodafone NZ plans hetnet and VoLTE trials soon
Vodafone NZ plans on trialling self-optimising networks and heterogeneous networks (hetnet) in this fiscal year.
View ArticleVodafone: 100% population coverage in NZ with current terrestrial technology...
Tony Baird, head of networks at Vodafone NZ paints a picture of how the provider's services could improve in the future, and the ways in which the company is working to improve telecommunications skill...
View ArticleNetworks not up to speed as Kiwi businesses move to the cloud
“The role of IT is changing from being an administrator of infrastructure to becoming an enabler of the business."
View ArticleCisco NZ: Opportunities aplenty as Kiwi businesses prepare for data onslaught
By 2019 New Zealand’s IP traffic will more than double, and there will be 35 million connected devices.
View ArticleINSIGHT: How Kiwi organisations can protect business IP
As online threats become more ubiquitous and damaging, protecting sensitive data such as intellectual property (IP) is becoming increasingly difficult.
View ArticleFather of the Internet Vint Cerf: IPv4 was never the ‘production version’
Back in the ’70s, researchers in the US Defence Department’s internetworking program needed to decide how much address space computers on “this Internet thing” were going to need.
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