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Network routing and switching

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  UK government hits superfast target but many still experience poor broadband

  National Audit Office report says government’s target to roll out faster gigabit coverage nationwide by 2025 will be difficult to achieve for the hardest-to-reach premises

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  Small businesses’ remote working frustrations threaten exodus of best talent

  While large firms mull massive investment to return to offices, over a quarter of European small business workers would switch jobs to somewhere better equipped for remote working

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  UK firms find obstacles to unlocking full potential of Edge

  Survey finds almost of half of UK IT leaders in the UK are already actively using Edge technologies to deliver new outcomes and business value, but 87% of ITDMs are missing key skills to unlock the value of data

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Dryad Networks gains funding for large-scale wildfire detection IoT network

  Forest management startup gains seed fund to develop internet of things technology for what it says is the dawn of the digital forest

• October 05, 2020 05 Oct'20

  Colt gallops to bring high-capacity bandwidth to UK’s major cities

  Provider deploys network-to-network interfaces acquired via Livequote pricing portal to support UK broadband network to satisfy the increasing demand for high-bandwidth connectivity services

• October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

  How Ethernet became the world’s networking standard

  Ethernet pioneer Bob Metcalfe outlines the technology’s early history, including the rivalry with IBM and what he did to convince people of the value of networks

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Norway leaves door open to Huawei

  Government gives telecoms companies responsibility to choose their equipment suppliers, which could include Huawei

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Skoda Auto transforms network infrastructure to accelerate business growth

  Car manufacturer upgrades network with campus networking systems as part of its 2025 digital transformation strategy

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  VMware wants to decouple the telco technology stack

  VMware is trying to break the stranglehold of integrated technology stacks on telcos, but network equipment suppliers are not ceding ground

• September 28, 2020 28 Sep'20

  BT: UK government’s national fibre target could be missed by eight years

  Government is in danger of not realising its full-fibre coverage broadband ambitions, says telco, which had identified seven key policy, legislative and fiscal enablers to get the plan back on track

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms makes further investment in UK business connectivity, 5G

  UK telco unbundles further 259 BT exchanges by the end of 2021 to significantly grow network, bringing total unbundled exchanges to 550

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  Government remains in orbit to develop UK sat nav

  Despite experts’ doubts, government confirms it will continue to look at a wider range of options for a sovereign satellite navigation and timing capability

• September 23, 2020 23 Sep'20

  Virgin hits 2.2Gbps broadband speeds in innovation trial

  UK cable network reveals proof-of-concept trial to showcase multi-gigabit broadband speeds delivered without the need for additional infrastructure or civil engineering works

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  NBN Co pumps in A$700m to shore up business connectivity

  Australia’s national wholesale broadband provider is creating up to 240 business fibre zones across the country to provide businesses with access to its enterprise ethernet service

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  Current IT infrastructures not prepared for incoming strain of fourth industrial revolution

  With the future of business increasingly driven by smart things, applications and digital services that use data for transformational purposes, CenturyLink is undergoing its own transformation

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Independent wholesale broadband market could connect 11 million more premises by 2025

  Research from Independent Networks Cooperative Association reveals surge in demand from members to provide wholesale broadband services across the UK

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  UK government furthers investment in rural broadband

  Quarter of a million rural homes and businesses across England have been given access to more financial help to get super-fast and above broadband speeds up to gigabit

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Mobile stable as UK full-fibre broadband increases significantly over first half of 2020

  Second interim 2020 update to UK comms regulator’s examination of connectivity shows fibre and superfast broadband proliferate since March as millions remain at home to work, learn and be entertained during the pandemic

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  5G roll-out delay could see £18.2bn hit to UK economy

  Huawei publishes research showing the huge potential financial cost of removing its 5G products and services from the UK’s next generation

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  Aberla Utilities forges UK fibre partnership with Gabitel Ingenieros

  Spanish telecommunications expert digs out deal with Cheshire-based telecoms, energy management, renewables and engineering services to provide fibre communications

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Adtran eyes IoT scale opportunities and enhances gigabit switch portfolio

  As part of a sweep of moves to help service providers grow IoT applications, services and revenue, business connectivity solutions provider announces new gateways and brings carrier-class feature set to gigabit switch portfolio.

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Enterprise WLAN market takes a tumble

  Quarantines and lockdowns due to pandemic are presenting a headwind for the enterprise WLAN market, with falls in first quarter persisting over the next three months of the year

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Businesses go all in on wireless WAN for post-pandemic recovery

  Report reveals extent of wireless WAN use, demand for 5G and how wireless connectivity will play a big part in businesses’ efforts to recover from the economic damage of Covid-19

• August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20

  Scottish government reveals broadband voucher scheme to make up project shortfall

  Government reveals details of funding for Scottish residents who fall outside reach of its primary broadband project

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Bayer taps Verizon for global network infrastructure

  Pharmaceutical giant chooses Verizon to provide software-defined infrastructure to support its future cloud-based business needs

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  UK government redesigns contact-tracing app and begins new trial phase

  No official launch, but app is upgraded to offer alerts based on postcode, QR check-in at venues, symptom checker and test booking in conjunction with the official Test and Trace programme

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  CIOs raise IT budgets as increased remote working drives security concerns

  Research finds that as the pandemic forces companies to accept the idea of permanent massed remote working, CIOs are waking up to the threat of increased cyber attacks

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  SD-WAN revealed as key enabler for ‘new normal’ remote workforces

  Research from software-defined network and cloud platform provider shows the increased importance of software-defined infrastructure to the new work environment

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  UK government gigabit broadband scheme nears half a million new premises benchmark

  UK government celebrates reaching gigabit broadband services deployment milestone as part of its ambitious target over the lifetime of parliament

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS

  Session border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no disruptions to network performance

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Virgin brings gigabit speeds to Glasgow, Leeds and Bradford

  Cable provider extends gigabit broadband footprint to more than 12 million homes with coverage in Scotland’s largest urban conurbation and West Yorkshire twin cities

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Tata Communications unveils new secure digital experience

  Global digital ecosystem enabler Tata aims to allow businesses to adapt to the realities of enterprise transformation, workforce mobility and consumer experience in the new digital-first environment

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Liverpool scores win with 5G health and social care project

  Quality of Mersey is not strained in mobile health communications solutions, with a further £4.3m for 5G-based health and social care innovation to provide safe, free and accessible connectivity to services including health, social care and education

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Application monitoring, video games dominate internet traffic in first half of 2020

  Increased focus on digital presence during lockdown likely to have prompted companies to invest more in ensuring and measuring application uptime and enhancing customer experience

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  BT takes Covid-19 hit but claims strong first quarter

  Comms provider warns of further impact from pandemic in future quarters as a result of insolvency, slower decision-making by larger customers and lower usage across businesses

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK households suffer as online problems disrupt work during lockdown

  Quadient urges broadband and mobile providers to focus on customer service as UK ranks connectivity as more essential than gas, banking or council services

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  UK rural full-fibre broadband network expanded further

  Over three million more homes and businesses in rural areas of the UK given the opportunity to get ultra-reliable, gigabit-ready, full-fibre broadband by mid-2020s

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  £400m full-fibre broadband expansion as Warburg Pincus, DTCP take control of Community Fibre

  Expansion of full-fibre network across London will deliver up to 10Gbps of broadband to a million households and businesses

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  US Cellular taps Nokia, Ericsson to build out 5G infrastructure

  Scandinavian comms tech suppliers on board to support US’s fourth largest telco’s journey to next-generation services

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

  IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  MainOne West African submarine cable implements Infinera to boost spectrum capacity

  Comms tech provider works with global operator to optimise performance on undersea cable serving as West African backbone network for Orange’s international connectivity in Africa

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Telekom Slovenije introduces 5G

  Slovenia’s leading telco unveils the first in a number of phases in its evolution towards next-gen communications

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Aryaka, Check Point announce global managed security partnership

  Cloud-first-managed wide area network provider and threat prevention specialist collaborate to produce integrated security and SD-WAN-as-a-service solution

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Verizon completes long-haul 800Gbps single-wavelength fibre data session

  US comms giant sends 800Gbps across long-distance fibre in preparation for significant increase in amount of data from enterprise and consumer 5G applications

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Masergy expands SD-WAN portfolio with SASE, added analytics

  With the addition of SD-WAN Secure, software-defined network and cloud platform claims to be the sole source of a single, unified SD-WAN solution

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  A1, Telstra tap Nokia to enhance 5G evolution and pilot network slicing

  Self-organising network software deployed to boost automation of leading Australian comms operator’s wide radio access networks as it continues its evolution towards 5G services

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Cloudflare apologises for major net outage

  Incident from network engineering team’s routine router configuration update work sees major outage on backbone leading to drops in internet services in Europe, US and Latin America

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Global business leaders comfortable if not fully prepared for large-scale shift to remote work

  Riverbed survey shows new technology investments are expected to enhance corporate performance and wellness as employees increasingly work from anywhere and employers adopt hybrid working models

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  More than 90% of UK’s fixed lines meet the challenges of working from home

  Study from network benchmarking firm Umlaut reveals that despite fears over whether UK networks could cope with mass remote working, only very few fixed-connection users faced limitations