BigPond
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In Australia, BigPond is Telstra's brand name for consumer broadband ADSL, cable modem, dial up, satellite Internet services and Wireless Broadband (EV-DO) via the Telstra Internet national backbone. Frame Relay, SDH, ADSL/SDSL and permanent dialup services are sold to businesses by Telstra under the Telstra Internet Direct brand name.
Bigpond also provides major content channels: BigPond Sport (with V8Supercars, AFL.com.au,NRL.com.au and BigPond Racing), BigPond Movies, an online movie download and DVD-by-mail rental service, BigPond Games with GameArena and GameNow, BigPond Music, an online music store, from which customers can download music in an encrypted WMA format that uses DRM and BigPond TV an online viewer for BigPond's video content. In February 2006 BigPond commenced webcasting of Sydney Symphony performances, both live and 'on demand'. All files downloaded from any of Bigpond's network are unmetered for it's ADSL and Cable customers.
Bigpond's broadband market share is 43%. (Source: Telstra Half Yearly Result December 31, 2005) http://www.telstra.com.au/abouttelstra/investor/docs/media_release.pdf
Telstra formerly offered a dialup internet service called "BigPond" in Cambodia, but some time in 2002 it was sold to a Cambodian ISP OnlineCom.
In November 2004 a new team was put together within BigPond to commence work on an in-house developed OSS/NMS platform, soon to be called BigPondLive. It has quickly been adopted as 'the' OSS/NMS platform used within BigPond. BigPondLive is built entirely utilising FOSS such as Linux, Apache webserver, MySQL database, PHP and Perl and provides complete multi-vendor support for Network Management and performance graphing. It is still in active development today and could easily be made to fit any IP network.
External links
- [Telstra BigPond Homepage]
- [BigPond Movies]
- [BigPond Music]
- [Telstra BigPond GameArena]
- [Telstra BigPond File Library]
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