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The Tasmanian Government announced at media event yesterday that the $763 million Tasmanian Government Radio Network (TasGRN), powered by telco provider Telstra and Motorola Solutions, is ready for operational use.

Australian OT cyber security provider Secolve has appointed an advisory board comprising Energy Australia CISO Catherine Buhler, former PepsiCo and Oil Search CIO Jackie Montado, Seqwater head of cyber security Patrick Dunstan and former TasNetworks CISO Steve Mason.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has allocated $1.6 million in funding to energy infrastructure company Jemena to undertake a residential electric vehicle (EV) managed charging trial with four other electricity networks in the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.

Energy provider TasNetworks arose out of the merger of Transend Networks and Aurora Energy’s electricity distribution business. The combined business inherited a myriad of duplicated IT platforms, data centres and applications. Salvation came in the form of NetApp's intelligent storage.

Telstra has completed a $5.2 million upgrade of its network on Tasmania’s west coast, with the project completed more than a year ahead of schedule.

Tasmanian electricity transmission and distribution network provider TasNetworks has selected networking systems and services vendor Ciena to address rising bandwidth requirements driven by IoT, 5G and data centre services.

In what is billed a Tasmanian first, Telstra has announced it would "trial the installation of small cell mobile technology on TasNetworks infrastructure to help fill some of Tasmania’s mobile black spots".

Fujitsu has completed a major upgrade to TasNetworks' microwave radio network, commissioning 18 FRX-3 Microwave radio links.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency and TasNetworks will explore a more detailed feasibility and business case for a second Bass Strait interconnector connecting grids.