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Unified communications

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Swedish industry contributes to 5G evolution

  Swedish industrial companies have played a role in the development of Ericsson’s 5G services in the country

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Train leasing firm demos mobile edge computing for smart trains

  Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains is demonstrating edge computing over a wireless mesh network to make life easier for its customers’ on-board staff

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Case study: Stationery firm gets things moving with FTTP broadband voucher

  Nuco, a Midlands-based supplier of paper and stationery products, has improved its business agility and is moving its IT into the cloud thanks to the government’s full-fibre broadband connection voucher scheme

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Emergency Services Network progress ‘deeply unsatisfactory’, says PAC

  A Home Office review of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme will not be finished before the end of July, the Public Accounts Committee has been told

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  IT Priorities 2018: Networking spend declining across the board

  Overall spending on networking projects across EMEA looks set to decline in 2018, according to the latest ComputerWeekly/TechTarget IT Priorities report

• January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18

  Cisco collaborates with startup for AI health and safety trial

  Cisco is to work with artificial intelligence startup Cortexica in an Innovate UK-funded project to improve physical safety in the workplace

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  Insurance broker Simply Business ditches legacy MPLS for SD-WAN

  Insurance business finds networking a breeze after ditching its unresponsive managed services provider and implementing VeloCloud’s latest software-defined wide area network technology

• December 21, 2017 21 Dec'17

  Ofcom defeats legal challenge from mobile network operators over 5G spectrum

  Ofcom has seen off a legal challenge from mobile suppliers that oppose its latest spectrum auction

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  Highways England awards telecoms service contract to Telent

  Network upgrade will enable Highways England to prepare for technologies such as 5G and connected cars

• December 04, 2017 04 Dec'17

  Giving machines a voice: what’s next for unified communications?

  As Mitel closes its acquisition of ShoreTel, creating a new unified communications and collaboration powerhouse, CEO Rich McBee reveals what’s coming next in the sector

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  Trade union helps members more efficiently with virtual contact centre

  Prospect Union is setting out to improve its responsiveness and member experience by building an Enghouse virtual contact centre on its Skype for Business installation

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  Dubai hospital implements intelligent communication system to improve patient care

  Latifa Hospital’s new communication system is intended to improve staff response times and create a quieter environment for patients

• November 02, 2017 02 Nov'17

  BT quarterly revenues and profits fall after Global Services slump

  Telco’s enterprise sales fall, but its consumer-facing EE division sees good growth

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  How SME comms firm Zen became a global network business

  Zen Systems, a family-run SME communications reseller based in Suffolk, is able to target multinational enterprise customers by working with enterprise network platform provider Interoute

• October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17

  Appliance maker Bosch to run voice and communications in the cloud

  German industrial giant will spend $60m on Avaya’s private cloud communications service over the next five years