01 September 2010
There still seems little chance that the UK will see 4G wireless services launched anytime soon, but anyone planning to travel down under for the Ashes will get the chance to see live HSPA+ - courtesy of Telstra.
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03 August 2010
Microsoft’s latest desktop OS is topping corporate IT spending plans, but desktop virtualisation and unified comms are also in the mix.
Posted in Virtualization, Virtualization Management, Wireless & Mobility, Wireless Infrastructure0 Comments
21 June 2010
60 of the best presentations from IP EXPO 2009 archived and presented on demand. This gives you a taste of things to come for the 2010 event which truly will be the biggest techfest in the UK this October. It will have over 240 presentations over two days with a similar amount of exhibiting companies. [...]
Posted in 2009 Presentations, Cloud Computing, Featured Home Page, IP Networks, IP Networks Security, Storage & Data, Virtualization, Wireless & Mobility0 Comments
23 September 2009
As we all know, the trend towards mobile communications among workers, students, and guests has pressed for the rapid migration from Wi-Fi hot spots for a handful of casual users to Wi-Fi networks for high performance users. When selecting the Wi-Fi solution for your organization, you need to make certain the architecture is powerful and [...]
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21 August 2009
FMC (Fixed-Mobile Convergence) is the Kevin Pietersen of the telecommunications industry: so much promise, some amazing performances but engendering so many conflicting opinions as to leave cricket lovers frustrated up to now: you’ve got the talent, Kevin, for goodness sake settle down and use it properly! FMC is the coming together of wired and wireless [...]
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08 July 2009
Workers differ in their mobility needs, from sales force road warriors to board directors and IT support staff. When assessing enterprise mobility, consider: - The need for individual and team productivity Work/life balance objectives Business continuity requirements The adverse weather in January in the UK was a good test: could your people work remotely at short [...]
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01 July 2009
802.11n is the most significant change since the 802.11 standard emerged, with across the board changes, including the physical and MAC layers, modulation and antennas. Enabling the standard is an Herculean task, with proposals from the volunteer group meetings eliciting thousands of comments, each resolved either by a written response declining it or text explaining [...]
Posted in IP Networks, Wireless & Mobility0 Comments
17 June 2009
Matt Perry, technical director at Aerohive reckons that wireless network controllers were not put in place for management reasons: “In any enterprise wireless network of any reasonable size, there will be multiple controllers – another layer of complexity: Access Points (APs), controllers and a separate management system. We see it as inevitable that controllers are [...]
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10 June 2009
With a host of technologies out there for the provision of mobile communications, which route should an enterprise take? In the current climate, organisations are seeking at best to grow and at worst stabilise their revenues. They are seeking to reduce latencies in their processes and speed up the time to market of their products [...]
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04 June 2009
Fourth Generation Wireless (4GW) is designed to overcome the constraints of older wireless deployments. A decade and more ago wireless implementations were, of necessity, based on non-standard proprietary technologies. With the emergence of the initial IEEE 802.11 family of standards, manufacturers focused on interoperability. Wireless equipment prices plummeted and the concept became far more viable [...]
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