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• Snow Kidding - I come back to ski season and FTTH... Plus Wine!

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 23 Dec 2009

Back from yet more travels.Escaped the UK just as the snow started to fall. Got back to Andorra to a sparking sunny day... it didn't last - heavy snow fell during the night and hasn't stopped much ...

• What Cost An Enterprise Firewall?

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 23 Nov 2009

Networking products and services typically have three stages in life - technology, commodity and freebie. Then a slow, lingering death.In the case of the firewall, the "personal" edition has been - ...

• ZeroCom

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 12 Nov 2009

So it looks like the end of another era - that of 3Com - with the announcement that HP is buying what was once THE shining light of Ethernet(working) for $2.7bn. Even if the company that the French ...

• Load-Balancing With That Tyson Feeling

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 09 Nov 2009

Following David Haye's Goliath-conquering exploits at the weekend it would be no surprise to see Mike Tyson attempt to come out of retirement once again, seeing a heavyweight champion whose head he ...

• That Bloke Mal Ware Is A Real Threat

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 28 Oct 2009

Was chatting with Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro about the, er, no pun intended, trends of malware and other threats earlier this week.Rik highlighted the seemingly exponential growth in ...

• Making The Point To Point

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 21 Oct 2009

No, we're not talking bizarre, middle-of-nowhere horsey meetings here but wireless broadband.

• How Trendy Clouds Can Minimise Your Ether Footprint

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 14 Oct 2009

Cloud Computing - all marketing guff or reality? And, if it is the latter, then is it really the future?

• No I'm Not Dead Honest, Just Suffering From Temporary Death By Travel...

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 09 Oct 2009

For anyone else who travels as much as I seem to at the moment, you have my deepest sympathies.Finally back "home" after over six weeks on the road, almost entirely in England. Well, at least I did ...

• Load-Balancer On A Stick

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 11 Sep 2009

Terry Pratchett created rat on a stick for his Discworld novels, but my mates at jetNEXUS have gone one better with a load-balancer on a stick... ...in the sense of a USB stick, or CD if you ...

• I'm On The Train...

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 10 Sep 2009

So.Yet more extensive travelling and lack of Internet (I can't rate McDonald's free WiFi very highly based on recent experience - like going back to 2.4kbps dial-up - but now I am with, not one, ...

• Still Summer - Still Cloudy...

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 21 Aug 2009

It's a very interesting scenario when you work for yourself and summer arrives.People go on holiday. Which is very annoying when:a) You're trying to finalise dates for the next series of test ...

• Virgin 50 meg Broadband - Hows it going?

  Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 Aug 2009

I know, it's been an age, and I have been very remiss. So how have things been going for me and my super fast connection?

• Bye Bye Nortel - Bye Bye Bay - Bye Bye Avaya? Bye Bye Vista!

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 06 Aug 2009

So it looks like the Enterprise networking division of Nortel is going to Avaya after all.Shame, 'cos I really liked the idea of it being bought out and Bay Networks being reinvented - from an ...

• Broadband speeds and broadband testing - get an SLA

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 29 Jul 2009

Broadband speeds and broadband testing - get an SLA

• And Now Save Money On Your Office Calls...

  Steve Broadhead - Broadband Testing 20 Jul 2009

From the man who roams the length and breadth of Europe - well certain parts of Andorra, France and the UK - searching for networking products with instant ROI...The latest is from a UK start-up ...