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Network hardware

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  What's the solution to Tech City’s lack of superfast broadband?

  Reports of poor internet connectivity for startup tech companies in London’s Tech City have been circulating for some time

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  BT Business brings 4G to SMEs

  BT Business has launched a range of plans for small businesses that include free access to 4G and unlimited BT Wi-Fi

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Openreach CEO Joe Garner sets out broadband game plan

  Joe Garner, the new CEO at Openreach, talks about his plans to make the organisation more open, visible and responsive

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  IT needs to improve network infrastructure for future of retail

  IT departments need to up their game and improve networks for the retail sector which is on the brink of massive technology change

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  BT forges on with fibre roll-out but customer uptake weak

  BT rolls out fibre optic broadband across the UK at a steady pace but only 15% of fibre-ready premises sign up for the superfast internet service

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Yorkshire councils upgrade networks for Tour de France

  IP telephony and Wi-Fi upgrades help North Yorkshire and Leeds City Councils meet the demands of the Tour de France

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Vince Cable welcomes £135m datacentre investment in Docklands

  Telehouse, London's colo and datacentre provider, to build a mission-critical datacentre in Docklands with £135m from parent firm KDDI

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

  BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  The SDN state of play: first steps for the enterprise

  Software-defined networking experts say telcos will be first to push SDN ahead of enterprises and suggest how CIOs can prepare

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Alcatel-Lucent demos 10Gbps internet over copper

  Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s R&D arm, has claimed a new world broadband speed record using traditional copper phone lines

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Government invites tenders for Emergency Services Network

  Incumbent Airwave Solutions among several businesses invited to tender on the four lots of the new Emergency Services Network

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

  Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Internet of Things already stretching networks to capacity

  A new study reveals the scale of the challenges facing network managers as the Internet of Things becomes a reality

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  BT sorry after broadband customers hit by mystery outage

  BT has apologised after a network incident left thousands of its customers without internet access on Saturday

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

  Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes