This Telsyte report, prepared for AAPT, has been designed to assist Australian mid-market and large enterprise companies by offering advice on best practices and trends in telecommunications technologies. Telsyte defines the mid-market and large enterprise as organisations with between 200-499 and 500+ employees respectively.

Telsyte forecast that, in aggregate, the data services market will grow by an average growth rate of just over 3% per annum between 2009 and 2013. In 2009, revenue is expected to increase by 2% to $3.04 billion.

Alcatel-Lucent today announced it has been selected by AAPT, one of Australia's three largest telecom companies, as the strategic partner for a network transformation project. Incorporating the Alcatel-Lucent terabit service routing portfolio into its network will enable AAPT to offer a wider range of services and higher performance to more customers, all with reduced physical real estate requirements.

AAPT will deploy VMware’s market-leading datacenter virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3), to dramatically reduce its server numbers from 300 to 13.

In a first for Australian businesses, AAPT has launched a new Internet service offering Ethernet access speeds across standard telephone lines.