[AusNOG] Superloop to buy APEXnetworks for $5.8m

[Christopher Pollock]

If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times - you cannot be a network
engineer in 2015 without being a developer.  Not even just a coder, an
actual developer.

I can't even count the number of people who've told me they'd buy Apex for
their NMS alone.  It's the kind of thing that you could throw tens of
thousands of development-hours into and still not achieve the result you're
looking for, because ultimately you need someone who intimately understands
the network /and/ the software to do it.  And there aren't many of those.

You could spent $10m on developers and still not get what Apex has.

$5.8m, and it comes with a free network?  Bargain.

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On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Cameron Ferdinands <cameron at jferdinands.com
> wrote:

> From: Cameron Ferdinands <cameron at jferdinands.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Superloop to buy APEXnetworks for $5.8m
> To: Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com>
> Cc: Nathan Brookfield <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au>,
> ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>
>
> Congrats Ryan! Well deserved!
>
> APEXnetworks has some AMAZING software on the back-end of things and
> front-end for channel partners, and anyone that's used it before can vouch
> for that. That alone would be a major competitive advantage for Superloop,
> unlike a lot of other providers still stuck in the dark ages of
> ordering/provisioning/billing/support etc.
>
> There seems to be a similar theme of software + service provider, is it
> too late to start the 'ISP 2.0' buzzword?
>
> Before anyone chimes in with 'Telstra has done this for years' can you
> really tell me that ordering ULL's with an ISDN line was easy? I'd take
> ordering a VXC via a RESTful API any day.
>
> The future for Network Engineers is code! Not only will we be able to
> configure our devices, but order our services too, it's an exciting time to
> be alive.
>
> On 8 October 2015 at 12:59, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at theispguy.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I saw it... I am still trying to process it.  I am not sure how the two
>> businesses align... seems like a strange move for Superloop.
>>
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Nathan Brookfield <
>> Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.itnews.com.au/news/superloop-to-buy-apexnetworks-for-58m-410240
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kindest Regards,
>>>
>>> Nathan Brookfield
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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