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  • TelstraClear offers DDoS defence

    Internet service provider TelstraClear has partnered with US security solutions provider Arbor Networks, to protect local customers from managed distributed denial of service (DDoS). This is an attempt by hackers to render a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.
    In a statement Arbor Australia and New Zealand country manager Nick Race says the size and scope of the DDoS problem is overwhelming to businesses, with large service providers like TelstraClear claiming they are best positioned to deal with the issue.
    TelstraClear will receive benefits that include access to data from Atlas, a global threat analysis network. Arbor has embedded technology in the world’s largest ISP networks to sense and report on threats.
    Datacraft, Gen-i and Earthwave also offer Arbor's technology in New Zealand.

  • TelstraClear embarks on $1M compliance project

    Telecommunications provider TelstraClear is investing more than $1 million over two years to be one of first ISPs in New Zealand to be compliant with the PCI (Payments Card Industry) data security standards.

  • Mobile entrant Black+White pans report

    A report by investment bank Goldman Sachs JBWere stating the New Zealand Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) market has made little progress since the beginning of the year is being panned as “astounding” by operators.

  • Telstra CEO Trujillo stands by TelstraClear

    Telstra’s CEO, Sol Trujillo, has reiterated the importance of the company’s New Zealand and trans-Tasman business after the Australian incumbent reported its annual results last week.

  • 500 GPs back HealthLink, claims CEO

    HealthLink chief executive Tom Bowden says the company has received more than 500 letters of support from GPs over its revolt against an agreement to interconnect health networks.

  • Comcom delivers telecommunications verdict

    The Commerce Commission has delivered its fifth quarterly telecommunications monitoring report, for the first time benchmarking Vodafone’s fixed line residential phone plans and its home phone plus national plan that uses its mobile network. 

  • Cunliffe may yet weigh in on internet peering

    ICT Minister David Cunliffe may yet force internet service providers to restore full peering — to improve broadband efficiency — if more of them don’t move of their own accord.

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