Stories by: David Braue

Once the exclusive domain of telecommunications carriers, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) is fast becoming a necessary tool for post-production and release printing house Atlab.

Voice over IP (VoIP) and IP telephony may be all the rage amongst networking vendors, but lingering hesitation about the new technology is keeping many potential customers from pulling the plug on their old systems just yet. The result: many find they need to vendors pause in their endless pursuit of the VoIP future to make sure they leave doors open behind them for technology laggards to follow.

Latency issues and increasing data volumes mean attempts to shoehorn demanding new communications technologies onto existing networks will lead network engineers to trouble, a Gartner analyst warned yesterday.

Even as the Australian government tries to talk up the potential share price in its looming Telstra share sale, a regional telecommunications executive has warned that turning around the stagnating telecommunications giant will require a lot more than grudging concessions.

Budget airline Jetstar is taking the wireless office to new heights with a thin-client rollout, supported by wireless wide-area network connections at many new locations.

If you thought the snow was a place to get away from it all, think again: Victoria's Mt Buller has used a mesh WLAN to blanket the peak with Internet access from the base lodge to the summit last week.

The Department of Defence (DoD) will radically upgrade its worldwide logistics operations by undertaking a $20 million pilot project that will see RFID technology rolled out in more than two dozen locations around the globe.

This fast-growing building firm may have grudgingly adopted a Windows application after years of Solaris, but thin-client technology has helped it keep its costs down.

How can a highly diversified manufacturer and service provider consolidate its many operations onto a single ERP system? Carefully and deliberately.

Extreme traffic loads require extreme measures, as Microsoft found out while building the official Commonwealth Games Web site over the past year.

Voice over IP's popularity may be surging, but incorrect implementations challenge many companies which are running into bigger problems than ever.