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Supagas upgrades network with new partner
outdated network, comprising pieces of
fiber, wireless, NBN and ADSL services. This
was hindering its ability to innovate and
transition to digital services.
As a leading supplier of LPG, industrial,
medical, specialty and helium gas bottles in
Australia, the company’s modern facilities
enable it to provide multiple gas types and
products as well as specialized laboratories
to mix and test specialty gases.
Fuso-aligned industrial gas supplier,
Supagas, has turned to Macquarie to
overhaul a complex, multi-provider network.
The Australian LPG services specialist will
partner with Macquarie Telecom as hybrid
cloud and emerging technologies beckon
Supagas, which has grown significantly with
several acquisitions and subsequent
sales to Japanese company, Taiyo Nippon
Sanso Corporation.
With distribution centers, branches and
agencies nationwide, Supagas, which
operates over 500 trucks and trailers
nationally, was left with a complicated and
Working with Macquarie Telecom to overhaul
the network and deploy its SD-WAN and
SIP services in all 41 sites, Supagas has seen
a smooth transition from 20 independent
phone systems and five different providers
into one company-wide VoIP service.
“Our customers’ ability to contact our
branches directly is the most essential part
of our business and supply chain, and it was
time to transition from traditional voice to a
cloud-based VoIP system,” said Peter Sudiro,
National IT Manager, Supagas.
Veea Edge platform enables augmented
reality for Smart City
Veea, a pioneer in smart Edge
connectivity and computing, has
announced that Seongnam, South
Korea’s Smart City project, is using Veea
Smart Edge Nodes to enhance its latest
cultural exhibits with Augmented Reality
(AR) technology. The Seongnam Cultural
Foundation’s Independent Activist
Webtoon Project exhibit uses AR to delight,
engage and educate visitors as they learn
about the lives and spirits of 100 historically
important activists.
AR software running on the Veea Platform
allows visitors to view and hear webtoon
animated characters as they move through
the exhibit. Doodleis, an AR application
development firm, worked with Veea to bring
animated 3D webtoon characters to life on
smartphone screens. Exhibit visitors can even
take selfies with the characters and view
giant 3D elephants and rabbits playing in
the exhibit plaza grass.
According to MarketsandMarkets Research,
the AR market will grow from US$10 billion
in 2019 to over US$70 billion in 2024.
Engaging AR applications must be hyperresponsive,
but processing performed in
cloud data centers located hundreds or
thousands of miles away from users adds
unacceptable delay. Local ‘Edge cloud’
processing is increasingly critical as AR
moves from novelty to necessity across a
broad swath of markets, including industrial,
education and healthcare.
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