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| | News @ Cisco: Swinburne University of Technology Teams With Cisco Systems To Implement 11,000-seat IP Telephony Network |
 | | MELBOURNE, 12 March 2001 -Cisco Systems today announced that Swinburne University of Technology is implementing a single Internet Protocol-based communications network to provide voice, video and data services to more than 45,000 students and 4,500 staff using the latest technology based on Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data). |
 | | Swinburne Vice-Chancellor Professor Iain Wallace said the university was "looking for a reliable and robust network that was flexible enough to meet our needs now and for the future". |
 | | Richard Constantine, Director of IT Services at Swinburne said, "High availability was one of the key criteria in moving to a gigabit backbone, with redundancy and fault-tolerance at both a hardware and system level." Cisco Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand, Terry Walsh said there were two key aspects to the Swinburne deal. |
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