The St Vincent de Paul Society has upgraded its WAN infrastructure to improve support to its members in their service of people in need. The society has used national IP service provider Via IP to upgrade the data network.

Sydney-based Gizmo, a provider of technical support for a wide range of computer-related technologies, has successfully migrated to a fully fault-tolerant Mitel unified communications solution to support the company’s rapid growth and improve the efficiency of its 10 Australian offices and large field services workforce.

Salmat, a communications specialist company that engages consumers through one-to-one communications, has deployed the Websense Web Security Gateway to provide it with real-time security protection from dynamic Web 2.0 threats.

Telstra has transformed its core infrastructure onto a single internet protocol (IP) backbone to carry voice, video and data traffic, improve network efficiency and reduce costs.

Norfolk Island is located in the Pacific Ocean between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It covers just over 34 square kilometres and was settled in 1856 by descendents of the Bounty mutineers who moved there from Pitcairn Island

Western Australian electricity retailer Synergy was established in 2006 when Western Power was disaggregated into separate electricity generation, electricity transmission and electricity retail organisations. While there is a contestable market for large electricity users, Synergy has an effective monopoly over electricity retail to small and medium enterprises and domestic users in South-West Western Australia.

Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI) has upgraded the capacity and security of its international network with several routers and security gateways.

ANZ-based chemical importer Redox has deployed a new communications system to improve coordination of its staff across offices and between countries.

The NSW Teachers Credit Union has upgraded the security of its internet banking facilities with a multi-factor authentication system.

Wesley College Melbourne has deployed a web security appliance to cope with increasing volumes of staff and student web-browsing.

In an effort to curtail a growing stream of spam, Brisbane Grammar has outsourced its email and web security.

The Victorian City of Boroondara has implemented a unified threat management (UTM) solution to reduce teleworking support costs and improve security measures for access to both information and applications.

New England Credit Union (NECU) will soon deploy a unified communications solution in order to improve customer service and reduce operating costs.

Fitness First, Australia’s largest chain of health clubs, now offers members access to gym and class information from their mobile phones through a website developed especially for mobiles. This service also allows car manufacturer Hyundai to target Fitness First members through their mobiles.

Virgin Blue is set to deploy a unified communications system to improve its customer service, as part of its New World Carrier strategy.