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Networking hardware

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Cloud infrastructure spend set to hit $52bn in 2019

  IDC shares five-year view of how it expects worldwide spending on both private and public cloud infrastructure to grow

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent: a grand European networking alliance

  Nokia's €16bn acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent will bring big changes to the European networking landscape

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Broadband equipment market spikes as fibre subscribers boom

  Worldwide revenues from broadband customer premises equipment spiked in 2014 as subscriber numbers boomed and ISPs rolled out more fibre

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Juniper Networks goes after finance market with switch-integrated compute

  Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  BBC puts £230m network contract out to tender

  BBC puts out tender for £230m, seven-year connectivity services contract

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Government smart meter project should be "halted, altered or scrapped"

  The Institute of Directors has weighed in on the controversial smart meter rollout and called for the scheme to be halted, altered or scrapped in its current form

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Home devices threaten enterprise data security, warn researchers

  Poor or lacking security on ADSL routers and other devices used by teleworkers a threat to global enterprise information security

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Queens Park Rangers signs BT as official comms provider

  QPR football club inks a multi-year deal with BT Business to supply voice and networking services at Loftus Road

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Switch abstraction will be next wave of SDN, says Dell

  Dell submits a proposal for a switch abstraction interface to the Open Compute Project to advance software-defined networking

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Mobile World Congress: Huawei proposes green network methodology

  Huawei proposes a new methodology to maximise the energy efficiency of 3G and 4G networks

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Avaya sends SDN to the network edge for distributed environments

  Avaya introduces SDN architecture that extends the potential of software-defined to the edge of the network

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Software-defined network supplier Big Switch launches free online test environment

  Big Switch Networks launches online development and test environment to show how to set up and run a software-defined network (SDN)