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Optus has submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications a full account on what it thinks caused the massive outage last 8 November that crippled its subscribers: 90 Cisco provider edge routers automatically self-isolated to protect themselves from an overload of IP routing information.

A project  led by Monash University researchers has paved the way to help guide the energy industry to meet the needs and expectations of Australians well into the future, according to Monash’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab.

Monash University is undertaking a $2.3 million research project  in partnership with the energy industry looking at how emerging technologies are helping to shape the future energy needs of Australian households.

ICT services consultancy UXC has secured multi-year contracts with a combined value of more than $25 million with two New South Wales Government owned electricity companies, Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy.

NBN Co has confirmed it will use the special powers of the Telecommunications Act to enable it to access Ausgrid’s electricity distribution infrastructure for the NBN roll out, even though it and Ausgrid have failed to come to terms. Ausgrid is not happy.

Ausgrid MD George Maltabarow will deliver the opening keynote at the meeting of some 600 top utility professionals from around Australia and New Zealand in Sydney from Tuesday 8-10 November.

Australia and New Zealand's top utility professionals will meet in Sydney in November to explore new ways to improve reliability, quality and security of water and electricity supply in a cost-efficient and customer-friendly way. This year's Smart Utilities Australia and New Zealand conference and exhibition will particularly focus on smart metering and smart grids developments and feature real life practical insights based on recent trial results and lessons learnt from the region and abroad.

IBM, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Ausgrid (formerly EnergyAustralia) have launched an education program in smart grids at UNSW aimed at IT professionals, telecommunications engineers and electrical power engineers