Cisco has sunk its claws deeper into NBNCo, after the networking giant picked up a tender to provide routers for the NBN's operational networks. Cisco is already embedded in NBNCo's data centres, where its servers and networking kit sit alongside VMware software and EMC arrays. The new deal will see routers running multi- …

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Tuesday 25th September 2012 05:19 GMT solidsoup

This is pocket change

Providing connectivity for national broadband backbone? Bah! Filtering and data mining - that's where the money (from Oz gubermint) is.

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1. Tuesday 25th September 2012 05:39 GMT Simon_Sharwood_Reg_APAC_Editor
  
  Re: This is pocket change
  
  But you don't get to put out press releases saying you've won that kind of work
  
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Tuesday 25th September 2012 06:46 GMT Goat Jam

"MPLS routers, switches and firewalls will power Australia's NBN"

Yes, but who will protect Australians from the NBN?

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Wednesday 26th September 2012 07:19 GMT mhenriday

An amazing victory !

Or was this one of the contracts on which companies like Huawei and ZTE were not allowed to bid, for «security reasons» (good to know that it's only the US government that can spy on its vassal), so that in effect, there was no competition ?...

Henri

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