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Congestion, and outages across the national broadband network have remained at low levels, with no material increase compared to previous months due to increased usage across the network during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to NBN Co chief executive Stephen Rue.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Coad, Cohesity: The growth and development of cloud platforms and services has had a profound and long-lasting impact on corporate IT. Rather than having to deploy and manage complex infrastructures, organisations are now able to ‘rent’ capacity and capability as required.

GUEST OPINION by Steve Coad, Cohesity: The growth and development of cloud platforms and services has had a profound and long-lasting impact on corporate IT. Rather than having to deploy and manage complex infrastructures, organisations are now able to ‘rent’ capacity and capability as required.

Telcos are required to do a welfare check on people who have tried to call during a large network outage of telecommunications systems, under newly legislated rules for emergency call services in Australia.

Bendigo Bank has been hit by a major IT outage which has put its online services and ATMs out action for most of today.

Telstra Internet subscribers, who are connected by the company's HFC cable network, suffered outages in western parts of Brisbane last month, and not NBN users, as claimed by a user in that area.

26 OCT 2017

By Nicki Pereira

Unplanned outages have a real business impact

Your business is impacted when IT disasters and system outages occur and these impacts have a direct or indirect cost associated with them.

Macquarie Telecom has deployed its SD-WAN service to Australian not-for-profit United Way, with the upgrade enabling United Way to consider new digital services it can launch with a simpler and more scalable network.

Queensland’s Redland City Council has deployed a new modular data centre from Vertiv as part of a strategy to reduce the risk of weather-related outages.

Queensland’s Fraser Coast Regional Council has deployed the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform to replace an outdated three-tier storage area network and blade server infrastructure in a move expected to reduce the risk of outages on its network.

Problems with applications used for in-branch transactions at Westpac branches around the country were resolved this evening, a bank spokesperson says.

Telstra has launched a new "Always On" service guarantee for Asia’s busiest subsea cable routes – Hong Kong to Singapore and Japan to Hong Kong.

ACMA notes that, despite taking mobile connectivity for granted, when we’re not connected, "it can have serious impacts on both our personal and business lives".

Digital transformation in Australia and New Zealand has taken something of a beating, as many companies in both countries hold back on taking the plunge into the new digital world due to poor performance of their IT networks and the need for network upgrades.

Telstra is investing $3 billion in its networks over the next three years as it attempts to win back the faith of disgruntled customers hit by a series of network outages over recent months.

Outages. When they’re expected, they’re annoying; when they’re unexpected, even more so, so what’s a good backup plan?

A number of big name web properties were hit when the severe weather in Sydney caused an outage at Amazon Web Services on Sunday evening.

Telstra has denied claims that faulty modem firmware updates to modems it supplies to NBN and ADSL broadband customers have been responsible for its spate of recent widespread outages.

iTWire has received a tip from an anonymous source over the weekend that claims that Telstra's horror run of outages in 2016 stems from bad firmware in Telstra supplied modems.

Three days of sporadic outages — now extended to four — in voice and data on NBN, data on ADSL, Telstra Internet Direct, its prepaid and recharge services down, MyAccount, and Telstra Wi-Fi off the air meant that May was not a very merry month this year.