Many countries around the world are in perilous demographic shape, because there simply aren’t enough younger people to sustain markets and contribute to national productivity. With that fact in mind any population growth is welcome news. So the good news…
A team of researchers (including BICSI corporate member Modular Photonics [part of Macquarie University], from Australia, Japan, Holland and Italy have set a new speed record for an industry standard optical fibre, achieving 1.7 Petabits – the equivalent to the…
BICSI South Pacific will be chairing and exhibiting at the first Cloud & Datacenter Convention (CDC) in Western Australia, held on Thursday 29 June 2023 at The Crown in Perth; and have secured a limited number of complimentary passes for…
While the latest ‘Cable Outside Plant Equipment [OSP] Advanced Research Report’ from Dell’Oro summarises the US market, it does provide a good indication of global OSP trends that will impact our markets in the South Pacific. The reports notes that…
The ‘Final Report of the Review of Queensland’s Electrical Safety Act 2002’ (the Act) was recently published by the Queensland Government, and industry stakeholders (which includes many BICSI members) are now invited to comment on the Report’s recommendations via email…
According to a recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report, private new capital expenditure (capex) in Australia rose 2.4% in Q1 2023, up 6.3% on capex a year earlier in Q1 2022. Commenting on the report, Ben Dorber, ABS head…
According to IDC’s most recent ‘Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker’, Australia’s PC market declined by 19.1% year-on-year (YoY in Q1 2023 with 996,000 units shipped, due largely to the decline in consumer demand, growing inflation concerns, and excess inventory…
According to a recent Statista report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) adjusted its January projection down by a sliver in its latest World Economic Outlook. Three months ago, the IMF had first painted a slightly less gloomy picture of the…
According to a recent Uptime Institute Report, while high availability and resiliency (outage prevention and effective recovery) is a priority for all involved in the digital infrastructure supply chain, progress is gradual, hard-won and, when failures occur, increasingly expensive. The…
The Property Council of Australia has expressed concern over the latest building data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), showing building approvals have declined to their lowest level in a decade. Property Council’s Acting Executive Director Anita Hugo…
FASTER, FASTER NBN Co has awarded construction contracts to Ventia, Service Stream, Fulton Hogan Utilities, and Downer EDI to enable one million homes and businesses to upgrade to full fibre by ordering an eligible wholesale higher speed tier. These…
Congratulations to Stuart Wilson, Managing Director of Bhamtech Data and Electrical in Sydney in recently securing his Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) credential. We were delighted to hear from Stuart just after he received notification that he passed his exam…
75% OF ORGANISATIONS WILL HAVE A DATA CENTRE INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM BY 2027 ACCORDING TO GARTNER Gartner will run its IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney, on May 15-16, just a day before our BICSI Net-Zero…
Machine vision is an improving technology that’s likely to be implemented in more and more applications. And there are increasing demands placed upon the processing of images gathered by cameras in all applications including industrial machine vision. The Industry IoT…
HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY – SOMETIMES In an interview with Bloomberg, IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna said that he can see AI and automation replacing as many as 7.800 employees over the next five years. These would be so-called back-office…