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November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12
Big Switch Networks enters SDN race

Silicon Valley start-up Big Switch Networks debuts its first software defined networking (SDN) products
November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12
ARM and C&WW backs Cambridge Weightless wireless standard

The Weightless standard wins the backing of industry heavyweights hoping to help it on its journey to creating the ‘internet of things’
November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12
Brocade boosts SDN presence with Vyatta buy

Networking giant Brocade buys network operating system pioneer Vyatta to bolster its software-defined networking (SDN) folio
November 02, 2012 02 Nov'12
Facebook swaps Wi-Fi for check-ins from SME customers

Social networking site Facebook is offering firms free Wi-Fi in exchange for directing customers to a Facebook page

October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12
Southwark Council outsources IT transformation

Southwark Council is upgrading all the IT that supports the delivery of council services, through a deal with Capita
October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12
'Digital skills as crucial to UK as superfast broadband,' says Vaizey

UK digital skills must improve to make most of the economic benefits of superfast broadband, said communications minister Ed Vaizey
October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12
SDN scares big network suppliers

Cisco, Juniper and Brocade have had to embrace software defined networking or risk their hold on the market, says Emulex’s Sean Walsh
October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12
Huawei admits to being monitored by GCHQ

Huawei has admitted to working closely with government security arm GCHQ as part of review into security practices
October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12
TalkTalk CEO calls for regulatory intervention on superfast broadband

Dido Harding, the CEO of TalkTalk, has called for regulatory intervention into the superfast broadband market to encourage greater competition
October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12
How will the 4G LTE roll-out benefit your business?

An EE survey of the business benefits of 4G LTE shows improved mobile working and innovation the main advantages of the superfast broadband

October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12
Datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016, predicts Cisco

Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, forecasts Cisco Systems’ Global Cloud Index
October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12
Interoute switches on 100GbE network

Network provider Interoute is using Infinera technology to bring bigger bandwidth to enterprise and service provider customers
October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12
Case study: Benetton rolls out shopper and staff Wi-Fi

The United Colours of Benetton stores offer secure access for staff and free browsing for customers with managed Wi-Fi networks from On Direct
October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12
Patchy uptake hinders Public Service Network roll-out

Key players involved in deploying the Public Service Network (PSN) say progress is being made, but different approaches are slowing it down
October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12
VMware tools up for software-defined datacentres

At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware addressed how it would tackle greater IT complexity through management and automation
October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12
HP revamps portfolio for software-defined networking

Supplier claims additions will bring capabilities of software-defined networking to infrastructure, control software and application layers
October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12
BT does deal to manage British American Tobacco network

BT will provide remote access, network security and supplier management for British American Tobacco’s wide area network
September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12
IPv4 address pool almost dry

The five Internet Registries now have just 16.8 millions IPv4 addresses left
September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12
O2 hopes to speed up 4G auction process

O2 is rushing to launch its own 4G service, following EE’s announcement of an imminent roll-out
September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12
Cut network complexity with Ethernet fabrics and SDN, says Brocade

Brocade says abstraction layers, such as Ethernet fabrics and software-defined networking (SDN), can eliminate complexity from the network
September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12
Huawei commits to spending £1.2bn in UK

Chinese telecoms company Huawei has promised to spend £1.2bn in investment and procurement in the UK over the next five years
September 07, 2012 07 Sep'12
Government invests into shared Janet education network

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills allocates £30m of funding for the Janet network to serve schools, colleges and universities
September 06, 2012 06 Sep'12
Interview: Dave Scammell, CEO of Sohonet

We speak to the head of Sohonet, a service provider built for the film and media industry in the centre of London
September 03, 2012 03 Sep'12
PwC examines Phoenix IT's financial irregularities

The cloud and networking firm suspends a manager as it prepares to reduce its net assets by £14m
August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12
Enterprise network kit continues to boom in recession

New research from IDC shows revenues for both Ethernet switches and routers are growing regardless of the economic climate
August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12
De Vere Group slashes Telecity server racks in switch to UCS

The hotel group has cut its hosting fees in a deal with ANS to migrate to a Cisco private cloud
August 15, 2012 15 Aug'12
HP touts software for moving virtual machines

The network virtualisation solution named EVI claims to speed up the process of moving virtual machines and data sets in cloud environments
July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12
Oracle acquires Xsigo

Silicon Valley giant Oracle buys into software-defined networking with the purchase of Xsigo
July 25, 2012 25 Jul'12
Huawei Technologies' first half profits drop 22%

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei saw profits fall 22% to CNY8.79bn (£0.9bn) in its first half of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011
July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12
VMware looks to SDN with $1.05bn Nicira acquisition

Software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Nicira vows commitment to open standards as VMware proposes $1.05bn acquisition
July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12
Cisco loses 1,300 jobs in another round of cost-cutting

Cisco Systems is to cut around 1,300 jobs – or 2% of its workforce – in continued efforts to cut costs and streamline decision making
July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12
Co-op uses Lloyds managed service in branch acquisition

The Co-operative bank will switch to Lloyds TSB's IT platform when it buys the 632 Lloyds TSB and Cheltenham and Gloucester branches
July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12
Tech firm iCity wins datacentre bid for Olympics media centre

IT company iCity has been awarded the contract to turn the Olympics media centre into a datacentre, for which it will hire 4,600 staff
July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12
Orange Business Services touts internet offload service

Orange Business Services (OBS) claims business applications can excel on VPNs by pushing non-critical applications onto local ISP networks
June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12
Dell says datacentre is ready for disruption

Dell’s head of networking Dario Zamarian tells Computer Weekly why the supplier is ready to stand on its own two feet in the networking space
June 18, 2012 18 Jun'12
Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers

Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology
June 15, 2012 15 Jun'12
Western Digital moves into router market

Western Digital, known for its external hard drives, takes a step into networking with the launch of its My Net routers
June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12
Tata Communications network links London to global financial hubs

Indian supplier Tata Communications unveils an Ethernet platform to connect financial firms from city to city
June 06, 2012 06 Jun'12
Top 10 tips for IPv6 security

Many organisations are being misled about the complexities surrounding IPv6 security, according to security firm Stonesoft
June 01, 2012 01 Jun'12
Cambridgeshire launches PSN to cut £1m per year

Cambridgeshire County Council will save £1m per year with the launch of its public services network (PSN)
May 31, 2012 31 May'12
Cisco Networking Academies forge networking careers for ex-offenders

Cisco’s Networking Academies are working with ex-offenders to prepare them for career paths in networking after leaving prison
May 16, 2012 16 May'12
Interview: Avaya EMEA president Michael Bayer

We talk upcoming launches, acquisitions and R&D with the head of Europe for Avaya
May 14, 2012 14 May'12
Lincolnshire County Council to save £2.5m a year with PSN

Lincolnshire County Council expects to save £2.5m a year in its network costs by joining the East Midlands Public Services Network.
May 10, 2012 10 May'12
European economy dents Cisco forecast

The stormy outlook for the European economy leads the networking firm to predict a weak quarter
May 08, 2012 08 May'12
Canary Wharf stress test underway ahead of London Olympic Games

Businesses in Canary Wharf are running two days of stress testing to prepare for the London Olympic Games, including flexible staff working
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
May 01, 2012 01 May'12
Cisco and IDA to invest €26m into R&D jobs

Cisco has announced the expansion of its research and development centre in Galway, thanks to funding from the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) in Ireland.
March 16, 2012 16 Mar'12
Janet education network extends BT relationship

UK education network Janet has extended a 20-year relationship with BT after agreeing a procurement framework for the next three years.
March 15, 2012 15 Mar'12
NATO signs £39m BT deal

NATO has signed a €47m (£39m) deal with BT for a communications network
March 12, 2012 12 Mar'12
BT speeds up fibre to the cabinet to boost UK broadband

BT is boosting its fibre to the cabinet broadband service to deliver 80 Mbps downlink and 20 Mbps uplink speeds.
March 08, 2012 08 Mar'12
IBM debuts prototype terabit optical chip “Holey Optochip”

IBM pushes data transfer rates to one trillion bits of information per second with a prototype terabit optical chip it calls “Holey Optochip”
March 08, 2012 08 Mar'12
Local authorities save £675,000 with real-time data-sharing

Councils in Gloucestershire and West Oxfordshire are to share real-time data through a fibre optic network in a move expected to save £675,000 a year
February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12
Does the PSN need to happen before the cloud?

The deployment of public services networks (PSN) will need to happen before widespread uptake of CloudStore services occur, IT heads said at a roundtable meeting.
February 23, 2012 23 Feb'12
Optical networking market gets unexpected boost

Global sales of optical networking in 2011 reached $15.59bn with Europe performing stronger than expected.
February 07, 2012 07 Feb'12
Cisco Live London: 40 and 100 GbE, souped up WLAN

At Cisco Live London, Cisco launched 40 and 100 GbE switching, a souped-up 4-antenna WLAN access point, and a host of network virtualisation technologies.
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 12, 2012 12 Jan'12
Brocade acquisition rumours return: Who's buying?

The For Sale sign appears to have gone up again at Brocade. But Brocade acquisition rumours have kicked around for years now. Is this time any different?
January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12
Robots play football to test wireless network load capabilities

Far from the days of remote control battles on national TV, engineers now use soccer-playing robots to test wireless network loads across varying frequencies.
January 10, 2012 10 Jan'12
How the NHBC uses cloud-based technology for VPN authentication

The National House-Building Council is using cloud-based technology to offer almost 70% of its workforce authenticated remote access to its VPN using SMS and hard tokens.
December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11
Networking 2012: Vendors predict what's ahead for the industry

Senior vendor executives offer SearchNetworkingUK their Networking 2012 predictions for the challenges ahead, including addressing the transition to a mobile workforce.
December 23, 2011 23 Dec'11
Networking 2012: Analysts predict what's ahead for the industry

Industry analysts offer SearchNetworkingUK their Networking 2012 predictions for the challenges ahead, including consumerisation and cloud computing adoption.
December 20, 2011 20 Dec'11
How v4.0 is a Bluetooth piconet test for enterprise wireless managers

Hailed as a “second revolution”, v4.0 introduces a host of new ‘smart’ Bluetooth piconet challenges for an enterprise wireless manager. SearchNetworkingUK investigates.
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.
December 09, 2011 09 Dec'11
100G optical networking extended by Alcatel-Lucent: SNUK news in brief

SearchNetworkingUK briefs provide a summary of the week’s new products, services and appointment announcements. This week includes optical networking and much more.
December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11
Euro 2012’s communications infrastructure to boost football technology

Orange and TP must deliver a communications infrastructure to ensure Euro 2012 is broadcast worldwide without glitches. SearchNetworkingUK discusses the challenges.
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?
August 22, 2011 22 Aug'11
Unified network management: Wired and wireless together for good?

With an integrated network management vision, two organizations improved security and reliability, and have made steps towards a fully integrated network. But will we get there?
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 22, 2011 22 Jul'11
Alcatel-Lucent enterprise sale: Who will buy?

What will an Alcatel-Lucent enterprise sale mean to European markets and for competition in networking and collaboration market segments specifically?
June 02, 2011 02 Jun'11
Using network management and monitoring systems across IT and buildings

Bolton College linked its buildings facilities to the campus network and is using a network monitoring and management system that sees both buildings and IT resources.
April 07, 2011 07 Apr'11
Copper-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet is arriving, but not on 10GBase-T

Forget the predictions that copper-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet would run on 10Gbase-T. Copper-based Ethernet is here, but SFP Direct Attach maybe the cabling of choice.
February 07, 2011 07 Feb'11
Powerline networking and Wi-Fi enable heritage networks

Historic and ancient buildings present unique challenges for network managers. Fortunately technologies like powerline networking and advanced Wi-Fi can help those designing and expanding heritage networks.
December 01, 2009 01 Dec'09
RailCorp to turn off ATM network, seeks IP switches

ATM seems to pulling into the station for the last time at RailCorp, which wants a fleet of new switches.
October 27, 2009 27 Oct'09
Cisco gets smarter with second-generation integrated services routers

Richard Chirgwin analyses the changes to Cisco's Integrated Services Routers and what they mean for your LAN and the kind of applications it can handle.
January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09
Nortel files for bankruptcy

Despite recent claims to the contrary, Nortel has gone under, following a slowing in demand for telecoms hardware.
December 15, 2008 15 Dec'08
Nortel hits back at bankruptcy claims

Nortel has responded to international predictions of its impending demise, saying the company is in good shape and far from bankruptcy.
December 01, 2008 01 Dec'08
Government must now focus on services for NBN

The federal government must now develop value-added broadband services if it wants to grow the country’s fledgling digital economy, according to the ACS.
November 25, 2008 25 Nov'08
40G fibre heads toward general deployment

40G optical fibre network technology will soon see general deployment, according to consulting firm Ovum.
October 03, 2008 03 Oct'08
Pimp your virtual 10GbE card

This tip explains how a 10 GbE card can get around the network I/O virtualisation problem of low bandwidth.
September 15, 2008 15 Sep'08
Juniper refreshes gateway range

Juniper has upgraded its range of gateways, offering routing, security and NAC with a single OS.
September 15, 2008 15 Sep'08
10 Gigabit Ethernet sparks up the switching market

Switching is being shaken up by the emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and other new networking technologies.
September 10, 2008 10 Sep'08
What is "packet optical" technology and what can it do for TDM networks?

Packet optical networking is claimed to be the answer to some TDM-based SONET/SDH networking problems. This article explains what the technology is, and what it can do for you.
July 28, 2008 28 Jul'08
Behind the CUDOS All-Optical Switch

Australian researchers have produced an all-optical switch which they believe will help take the world's backbone networks well into terabit territory. Richard Chirgwin reports on how the switch works.
July 15, 2008 15 Jul'08
ACCC to watch Telstra exchange restrictions

A new ruling from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) requires Telstra to report on third-party access to its exchanges.
July 15, 2008 15 Jul'08
Need to upgrade an IOS router? Here's how!

You can upgrade an IOS router using TFTP, as Sudhanshu Gupta explains.
July 11, 2008 11 Jul'08
Is it time to brush up on your DNS management skills?

With the Domain Name System increasingly the subject of attacks, some experts say networking professionals need to brush up on their skills to ensure the domains they oversee remain secure.
July 09, 2008 09 Jul'08
Scratched optic fibre provides terabit speeds

Australians could soon experience internet speeds of one terabit per second, thanks to an innovation by scientists from the University of Sydney.
April 14, 2008 14 Apr'08
Government details National Broadband Network

The Federal Government has released the details of its proposed ‘National Broadband Network', requesting comments from interested parties.
April 14, 2008 14 Apr'08
Telstra completes ADSL2+ rollout

Telstra has completed its previously announced rollout of ADSL2+ upgrades to 907 exchanges around Australia, approximately four months ahead of schedule.
March 27, 2008 27 Mar'08
How to subnet: Subnetting calculations and shortcuts

Learn how subnetting works in this tip and quiz on how to calculate a subnet mask. IP address classes and bit values of octets are explained in detail.
March 24, 2008 24 Mar'08
3Com chases Bain for $73 million break-up fee

3Com is looking for a US$66 million termination fee after Bain Capital and Huawei withdrew their bid to buy the company.
March 09, 2008 09 Mar'08
Cisco's new ASR 1000 edge routers improve network integration

Cisco's new ASR 1000 router series brings multi-service capabilities and high performance to the edge in a compact but powerful form factor.
February 08, 2008 08 Feb'08
Juniper's new JCS 1200 provides control plane scaling flexibility

Juniper's control plane scaling platform, the JCS 1200, provides more operational flexibility and greater precision in resource management.
February 07, 2008 07 Feb'08
Intelligent network switches on the rise as more is expected of the network

With businesses expecting their networks to provide more services, vendors are building more intelligence into their switches.
January 30, 2008 30 Jan'08
With Cisco's Nexus switch, the network now rules the data centre

With Cisco's new Nexus 7000 switch, the vendor has shown that the network is the key to taking data centres to the next level.
January 30, 2008 30 Jan'08
With EX Series, Juniper aims to be a switch hitter

With the unveiling of its new line of switches, the EX Series, router giant Juniper hopes to break into the lucrative market currently dominated by Cisco.
December 20, 2007 20 Dec'07
Santa's great storage grudge-match: Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI

Attaching storage to a network used to be so simple - now you have a number of options and no way to decide! We've got your back.
October 24, 2007 24 Oct'07
3Com adds Linux application server to networking kit

3Com has devised a new style of application server that runs alongside networking hardware.
October 16, 2007 16 Oct'07
The unified communications rollercoaster

Unified Communications is the buzzword of the year, but what's really on offer?