Australia/New Zealand Defence Force
Keeping up with the ever changing face of Telecommunications
Situation:
The joint Defence Forces in both Australia and New Zealand required a telecommunications technology and market update course to be delivered annually to keep their senior officers in the Communications and Signalling sections up to date with what is going on in the commercial ICT industry. The course needed to cover market trends, competitive analysis plus new and upcoming technologies and developments.
Solution:
CommsLearning designed a custom 5 day course for the ADF/NZDF based on exact requirements agreed with the client. They requested particular technologies to be focused on and how they relate to the different military telecommunications systems. The course, called “Technology Systems Update”, covered subjects such as AUS or NZ Telecommunications market update and discussions around recent developments and trends, new technologies such as “New SDH, Metro Ethernet & GSM/UMTS Mobile networks”, new applications such as BlackBerry and VPN’s, plus an organized tour of a commercial installation such as the “Southern Cross” cable landing station. These courses have been successfully delivered for 6 years now, at various locations around the country.
Benefits:
This program allowed the Senior Officers of the joint forces to be aware of what is happening in the commercial sector and what technologies could be applied to the military and their own telecommunications networks (e.g. VoIP).
“CommsLearning showed a high level of professionalism and knowledgeable instruction. They catered excellently to the multi-levels of knowledge and experience in the group. The coverage of a broad range of topics and the depth discussed made it easy to understand the latest technology and to put it all together to understand the bigger picture.”
Joint Forces Feedback – 2007
