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• Cisco reportedly taps Microsoft exec to head collaboration

  Cisco is reportedly tapping a high ranking Microsoft executive to be the new head of its collaboration software group.

• Avaya promises near-term support for Nortel gear

  Nortel enterprise customers will be able to buy the company's current line of products for 12 to 18 months after Avaya officially takes ownership of Nortel's enterprise division that it won at auction for $US900 million.

• Unifying forces

  The shimmering oasis called "unified communications" has been on IT horizons for so long, it's almost surreal to think we might actually arrive there one day.

• Microsoft pips Google to secure student email deal at Curtin

  Western Australia-based Curtin University of Technology will soon begin its roll-out of Microsoft’s Live@edu hosted email platform, taking over 192,252 students and alumni across 11 global campuses, into the cloud for a future collaborative learning environment.

• Inside Cisco’s Sydney data and technical support centre

  Networking giant Cisco Systems has a secret gem hidden within its global operations – a $120 million technical assistance centre (TAC) in the northern Sydney suburb of Chatswood. One of only four such centres in the world, the Sydney TAC handles Cisco’s customer support load for six hours of every day. The Sydney location also has a data centre which is used for development, problem solving and interoperability testing. The data centre is the first in Australia to demonstrate Cisco’s entrance into the server space - the Unified Computing System.

• Cisco Unified Computing shakes up how IT buys hardware

  Cisco Systems just might be charting the course to a new way for IT to buy servers, storage, and networking hardware.

• Optus inks $143M VoIP contract for Immigration

  The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has called on Optus to roll out Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to more than 7000 seats and upgrade its aging network. The deal is worth $143 million over the next four years.