[AusNOG] Superloop to buy APEXnetworks for $5.8m

[Cameron Murray]

NMS is a great tool!

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Christopher Pollock <cpollock at twitch.tv>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chief Executive Officer
>>>>
>>>> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
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