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GUEST OPINION:  Nathan McGregor, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific, at Cradlepoint has written the below in response to the Federal Government announcing that there will be a surge in spending on the Better Connectivity Program from an estimated $102 million in the current financial year to $228 million next financial year.

Cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless network edge solutions provider Cradlepoint has launched the E100 5G enterprise router, suited for retail and small office markets.

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Aruba, a division of HPE, has unveiled news of Aruba Central NetConductor to automate and simplify the creation, deployment, and management of wired, wireless, and WAN networks all from one place, as well as news about GPS-enabled Aruba WiFi access points to provide greater location capabilities.

Juniper Networks has announced its new vision for the future of metro networks: Cloud Metro, a reimagining of metro networks that allows operators to “start overcoming their most pressing business and technical challenges and reinvent their role in the digital ecosystem.”

GUEST OPINION by David Hughes, founder of Silver Peak and senior vice president of the WAN business at Aruba: If enterprises are to realise the full promise of the cloud and digital transformation, while supporting a new work-from-anywhere normal, they must transform both their WAN and security architectures — not just one or the other.

Nearly 9 in 10 organisations (88%) in Australia surveyed by local technology analyst outfit Telsyte for LTE and 5G wireless network edge solutions provider Cradlepoint are either using or thinking of using LTE or 5G as the sole WAN link in branch locations.

An arrangement between cloud-first WAN company Aryaka and cloud communications provider 8x8 is intended to improve the performance of 8x8's Open Communications Platform.

IT solutions and services provider NEC Australia has secured a $39 million deal for transforming the WAN, LAN and IP telephony environments for the WA Police Force.

Network solutions provider Aruba has deployed its SD-WAN solution across 15 branch offices of Victorian local government body, the City of Whittlesea.

Optus has consolidated and expanded its services to government with the securing of a $6 million deal to provide the Australian Government’s Department of Health with telecommunications products and services, including Wide Area Network, mobile and voice services to the department’s 5000 users.

Telecommunications carrier Vertel and Nuage Networks, Nokia's software-defined network venture, are set to launch software-defined WAN services for Vertel's government, enterprise and service provider customers in July this year.

Cisco has announced a pair of products aimed at simplifying WAN management.

WAN optimisation specialist Riverbed Technology has deployed its networking solution across Queensland's largest law firm.

Brisbane-based IT services company Brennan IT has inked a partnership agreement with not-for-profit charity organisation, Endeavour Foundation, to provide WAN and co-location services.

By Zeus Kerravala, for Silver Peak *

A new service from Fusion Broadband makes building private WANs quicker and cheaper.

Broadband and hybrid wide area networks (WANs) company, Silver Peak, has appointed 20-year industry veteran Graham Schultz as sales director for Australia and New Zealand.

Broadband and hybrid wide area networks (WANs) company, Silver Peak, has appointed former Juniper Networks executive Anthony Sarkis as sales director for Australia and New Zealand.

Telstra has sealed a three-year multi-million dollar contract with Medibank as its exclusive partner for delivery of telecommunications services.