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Australia Defence Signs With Verizon For High Level, High Speed Internet

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Thursday, April 21st, 2011

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Australia's Defence department has signed an industry contract to provide high level and high speed internet services to industry, government, service personnel, employees and the public. The contract, signed with Verizon Business, is worth approximately $54.5 million and will involve replacing Defence's existing single internet gateway with parallel managed services providing a five-fold increase in capacity. These gateways will be housed in separate locations further strengthening the system's reliability, eliminating the risks associated with a single gateway. As Defence's demand…

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