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Telecoms networks and broadband communications

• May 10, 2012 10 May'12

  BT revenues fail to impress

  BT today revealed its results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, showing a number of its divisions with falling incomes

• May 08, 2012 08 May'12

  BT pays out £90m bonus package

  BT will hand out bonuses of nearly £90m after a scheme to improve the company’s struggling global services division paid off

• April 23, 2012 23 Apr'12

  John Lewis pilots virtual fashion mirrors

  John Lewis is using augmented reality to enable customers to try clothes on virtually, as part of its multichannel offering.  

• March 08, 2012 08 Mar'12

  Councils meet first superfast broadband deadline

  All but two local authorities have met government deadlines to submit plans to roll out superfast broadband

• March 01, 2012 01 Mar'12

  RSA 2012: IT security experts urge enterprises to ban smartphone BYOD schemes

  Enterprises should ban employees from using their own smartphones for work, a panel of IT security practitioners told the RSA Conference 2012

• February 24, 2012 24 Feb'12

  Countryside worst affected by slow broadband

  A third of UK homes have broadband speeds well below the national average, but rural areas fare the worst, according to research.

• February 02, 2012 02 Feb'12

  Ofcom reports UK improvement in broadband

  Boris Johnson says people should go to the pub to avoid massive rush-hour delays during the Olympics, but perhaps teleworking would be better for business

• January 18, 2012 18 Jan'12

  UK networkers look to wireless networks and IP telephony for 2012

  Wireless networks and IP telephony are set to be the most common networking initiatives implemented by UK users in 2012, according to TechTarget’s 2012 IT Priorities Survey

• January 03, 2012 03 Jan'12

  Hacktivists plan to use satellites to by-pass internet censorship

  Hacker activists plan to launch communication satellites to overcome the threat of internet censorship.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Everything Everywhere spends £1.5bn on network expansion: News briefs

  SearchNetworkingUK briefs provide a summary of the week’s new product, services and appointment announcements. This week is filled with signs of network expansion.

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  Network reliability to win over innovation in 2012, says Cisco survey

  Cisco’s first TechWatch 2012 report finds network reliability as opposed to innovation or performance is the most important factor for network architects in the new year ahead.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  Are network performance monitoring tools ready to meet new challenges?

  Network performance monitoring tools must adapt to handle virtual infrastructure, new applications and hybrid cloud environments. Are they ready?

• October 24, 2011 24 Oct'11

  UK broadband speeds increase, but thousands left in the slow lane

  Thirty percent of UK internet traffic is now at speeds above 5Mbps, an increase of 70% compared to last year.

• August 08, 2011 08 Aug'11

  Who needs MPLS? A dark fibre network saves York Council

  The City of York Council set out to rethink its Internet and voice network services and ended up building a dark fibre network that will support city-wide free wireless.

• July 18, 2011 18 Jul'11

  Cloud network design: Your apps are ready, but is your infrastructure?

  Cloud network design means creating a flat infrastructure for horizontal virtual machine traffic flow along with distributed applications for bandwidth optimisation.

• July 01, 2011 01 Jul'11

  Overcoming mobile cloud computing challenges with distributed apps

  Mobile cloud computing solutions are challenged by network latency and delay, but distributing mobile cloud applications so they're closer to users may be an answer to the problem.

• May 26, 2011 26 May'11

  For cloud automation, think flat networks and Ethernet fabric

  For cloud automation, vendors are preaching flat cloud networks based on Ethernet fabrics and open network software that enable engineers to build in cloud management tools.

• May 12, 2011 12 May'11

  SME technology trends in 2011: Analysys Mason talks cloud and mobility

  European SME technology trends in 2011 will see the rise of cloud-based services and mobility applications, predicts Steve Hilton, principal analyst for Analysys Mason.

• April 26, 2011 26 Apr'11

  Hybrid cloud model saves university money on a data centre upgrade

  Loughborough University implemented a hybrid cloud model and saved money on upgrading its data centre infrastructure, networks and collaborative applications.

• February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  UK cloud computing trends: Are IT shops buying in?

  UK cloud computing trends show that IT shops are buying into the technology to complement in-house applications and that security is not the most pressing challenge.

• February 05, 2011 05 Feb'11

  Real-time analytics bring voice calls back in vogue

  By combining the personal touch of voice calls with the real-time analytics of Web applications, a telecoms startup hopes to make chatting on the phone more common, and more profitable.

• December 04, 2008 04 Dec'08

  Cisco calls on Obama to prioritise broadband strategy

  Cisco has called on president-elect Barack Obama's incoming administration to deliver a national broadband strategy for the US.

• October 22, 2007 22 Oct'07

  Coventry council builds £10m fibre broadband network

  Coventry City Council has undertaken a £10m upgrade of its communications wide area network to deliver increased broadband capabilities to its citizens, businesses, schools and council services.

• July 23, 2007 23 Jul'07

  Silver surfers lead way in online buying

  Silver surfers buy more online than younger internet users and form the biggest area of growth in broadband usage.

• October 26, 2005 26 Oct'05

  BT to start trials of 8mbps broadband

  BT is planning to quadruple basic broadband connectivity speeds to 8mbps nationwide.

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  Broadband use soars

  There was an 86.2% increase in the number of internet users with broadband connections between January 2004 and January 2005,...

• November 18, 2004 18 Nov'04

  Spain joins WiMax network

  Spain is the latest country to embrace the emerging high-end broadband wireless technology, following recent deployments in...

• October 06, 2004 06 Oct'04

  Broadband heads east

  Proxim’s wireless networking equipment has brought broadband-speed internet to the rural community of Stock in East Anglia.

• June 18, 2004 18 Jun'04

  Sky Pilot offers low-cost wireless broadband

  Sky Pilot Network aims to deliver long range and service quality similar to WiMax wireless broadband technology by implementing...

• June 11, 2004 11 Jun'04

  Chinese cities team with Intel to deploy WiMax

  Intel has signed agreements with two Chinese cities related to the roll-out of WiMax wireless broadband services.

• June 01, 2004 01 Jun'04

  Cable & Wireless buys Bulldog

  Cable & Wireless has acquired broadband ISP Bulldog Broadband UK for £18.6m.

• October 17, 2003 17 Oct'03

  WLan will appeal to homes and offices

  Executives from major suppliers and mobile operators have predicted that wireless broadband networks will play a much larger role...

• February 10, 2003 10 Feb'03

  Public does not want broadband

  Three-quarters of the UK public have no plans to buy broadband Internet access, according to Computer Weekly research.

• May 30, 2002 30 May'02

  EU sets Net goals

  The European Commission has set new targets for broadband Internet penetration in the European Union, especially in the public...

• May 23, 2002 23 May'02

  Content is key to broadband take up

  Creating compelling content is the only way to boost consumer interest in high-speed Internet services, according to Sandip...

• February 26, 2002 26 Feb'02

  British Telecom finally cuts broadband prices

  British Telecom is slashing broadband wholesale prices by £10 a month in a bid to boost demand for high speed Internet services.