Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that Christchurch City has deployed one of New Zealand’s first major metropolitan local area networks (LAN) offering businesses, schools and health organisations affordable optical fibre connections.

Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today released a vision of the network architecture required to deliver a broad range of network, application and content services to end users in its paper, NBN Reference Architecture: High Level Architecture Options for the NBN.

DViCO today announced the Australian launch of one of the most advanced high definition (HD) jukeboxes on the planet, the TViX M-6600N Personal Video Recorder (PVR). The TViX M-6600N is the only PVR to offer full 1080P HD and HDMI 1.3 out. It’s also the world’s first PVR to include built-in 802.11n wireless capability which allows streaming of audio and video content from any PC on the home network. The TViX M-6600N will be distributed exclusively in Australia by Also Technology.

Australian technology distributor IPL Communications today announced the new compact LifeSize® Passport™ video conferencing system, ideal for SMEs, SOHO and teleworkers, will land in Australia in November.

The ABA’s Digital Watchdog Committee, formed following the launch of the ABA Web Audit Service in July, held its inaugural meeting on September 30, 2009. The committee members debated the standards by which online publishers are audited, and how web audience data is reported, and has subsequently released new measurement Rules and Guidelines.

AD2ONE, the global digital group, announced today that it will be the exclusive representative for the advertising sales in Australia of Reuters.com, the world’s leading news and financial information website.

PIPE International’s submarine cable, PPC-1, which has been built from Sydney to the telecommunications interconnection hub of Guam, was officially switched-on today at a special event at Sydney’s Australian Technology Park. The successful completion of Australia’s first independent submarine cable was two years in the making and cost $200m.

Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today named Dr Paul Brooks as its new NBN Lead Consultant. Dr Brooks succeeds Gary McLaren who has been appointed Chief Technology Officer of NBN Co.

Niche publishers have raced to take advantage of the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s Web Audit Service, with the number of Australian online sites submitting for audit more than doubled in the last month with over three million unique browsers per month now audited. In an industry first, sites that have met the stringent measurement rules prescribed by the ABA now appear in the Nielsen Market Intelligence screens with a green verification tick to indicate they are ABA compliant and their traffic is being accurately recorded.

As a result of the NBN and proposed restructuring of telecommunications in Australia, Australian businesses will have opportunities to manage more efficiently, develop new applications, attract new customers, offer better service & widen their markets.

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today announced an update to its expected financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2010, which ends October 3, 2009.

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced worldwide availability of the Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives. Products with the Seagate Secure option include: Savvio™ 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation™ and Cheetah™ 15K.7 drives.

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today it is expanding its global Alliance Partner Network with new channel programs designed to attract storage and IP networking channel resellers with more selective and profitable professional services, support, and warranty offerings.

Australia’s online advertising agencies Sapient Nitro, JWT Australia and ZenithOptimedia and Soap Creative have dominated the IAB’s fifth annual MIXX Awards in New York, collecting eight awards between them. The agencies, which were all successful at IAB Australia’s awards in July 2009, faced fierce global competition for the Awards which honour innovation and impact.

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today began global shipments of the world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive – Barracuda® XT, a 7200RPM product featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. The 3.5-inch desktop drive, the industry’s first to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface, meets the capacity demands of gaming, digital video-environments and other storage-hungry desktop computing applications while delivering the highest performance in its class.

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today it has further strengthened its industry-leading, next-generation Brocade DCX® Backbone family with the introduction of two new modular solutions. The Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade which is designed to connect two or more data centres to enhance business continuity and disaster recovery; and the Brocade FCoE10-24 Blade, which provides Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities for server I/O consolidation in the data centre.

Analysis released today by Millward Brown Optimor reveals that the BrandZ Portfolio, created from the world's top 100 most valuable brands, is recovering faster than the S&P 500 as a whole. The BrandZ Portfolio is now worth 28 percent more than the S&P 500, and it has returned to profit ahead of the market.

On 15th September 2009, the Communications Alliance hosted a media conference call following the NBN Industry Connection Forum #3 in Brisbane. The call featured Anne Hurley, CEO, Communications Alliance, Gary McLaren, NBN Lead Consultant, Communications Alliance and Mike Quigley, Executive Chair, NBN Co Limited.

NBN Co today named industry engagement as one of its key responsibilities at the Communications Alliance Industry Connection Forum in Brisbane.

The chief executives of a number of leading Australian telecommunications companies and internet service providers today reunited to call for a pro-competitive approach to upgrading Australia’s national broadband infrastructure.