With the news the other week that 2e2 the disti, sorry box shifter, no I mean ‘ICT Lifecycle Services Provider’ has hit administration it has left a number of businesses evaluating exactly…
The future? Augmented Reality and 3D printing apparently.
Last week I had the pleasure of joining a number of contemporaries from the industry at the Innovation and Growth seminar hosted by Royal Bank of Scotland at their Bishopsgate office in…
The next generation isn’t necessarily better
With today being the day that Everything Everywhere has launched their 4G services in the UK (albeit it a handful of cities) I have decided to break my media silence. I hadn’t…
Data to take over Voice
Interesting piece in the FT today on the future of the mobile network operators and how over the next five years it is expected that data traffic over the airwaves will grow…
IPv4 hanging in there
After many false starts it looks like IPv4 is finally exhausting with RIPE today issuing notice that they now have 1 months’ worth of IPv4 space left before they have to start…
Cynicism turns to Optimism
With the Olympics truly underway we can see that while we have experienced overall growth of traffic over our network as people tune in using the Internet, it hasn’t been anywhere near…
So far so normal
With the Olympics in full swing everything seems to be rather normal. This of course is a good thing but with months of meetings and contingency planning on how staff would get…
New network starts to take shape
A few months ago we announced to much fanfare that we were investing nearly £2.5m into new hardware across our network. Last week saw the first of ten new chassis being deployed…
Don’t put that there
As I have mentioned before the sight of one of BT’s new street cabinets, used in the delivery of Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC), is significant especially when compared to the small…
The power of cloud
With all the talk of cloud I think it is easy to get swept up in the enthusiasm for it with little consideration for those who don’t work in our industry and…
When will our industry learn?
Interesting but not exactly unexpected news that BT and TalkTalk are not advising customers correctly on what their broadband speeds might be post installation. Obviously it is somewhat of a dark art,…
BT delivers some innovation at long last
With all the talk of BT’s Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) service, and the incorrect advertising of providing homes and businesses with ‘fibre internet’, their actual true Fibre to the Premises (FTTP)…
How much?!
I was intrigued with the news that Facebook has valued and bought a company at a $1bn valuation when it has only 13 staff and never made a profit. For those of…
Support to ISPs will surely rocket?
I had an interesting lunch with a supplier last week and we got talking about the advances in televisions and that now it is common for new TVs to have network ports…
Djokovic vs Murray burns network traffic
With the Olympics just around the corner network providers have been worried about the potential increase in traffic as more of the games will be consumed over IP than ever before. As…