The UK faces a Digital Productivity abyss. Accelerating FTTP is the only answer. Though the UK ranks as the world’s 5th largest economy, we are laggards in terms of global broadband Internet performance. The UK languishes in 26th position for average fixed-line broadband speeds – as measured by the speedtest.net website – sitting behind 13…
The challenge for Voice over the Internet Having been involved with the delivery of both Voice and Internet Connectivity services for well over a decade now, if there’s one lesson I’ve learnt along the way, it’s that customers will not tolerate even the slightest ripple of disruption to their Voice services! The sensitivity of customers…
In recent years there has been a shift away from the typical linear expansion of networks in line with the number of users – one user once meant one PC or laptop, but with users becoming increasingly mobile, and increasingly connected, that same user today may also carry a tablet, smartphone or wearable technology –…
IT modernisation in the face of changing behaviour The trend towards an ever more digitised world creates a gold-rush opportunity for disruptive organisations seeking to lead their sectors with new customer focussed technologies. These disruptors and early-adopters stand to reap the rewards of increased market share and build new customer revenues at the expense of…
Only three years ago, the buzz surrounding the Internet of Things was confined only to the tongues of industry analysts and raised only in conversation amongst the most tech savvy IT engineers, but now the relevance and powerful capability of IoT is becoming increasingly well understood within the enterprise, with all corners of the IT…
Infrastructure and the Cloud With Gartner reporting that most enterprises now adopt a Hybrid Cloud strategy and that a majority of Virtual Machines will be IaaS hosted, it’s clear that the outlook is Cloudy for the enterprise, and especially when the Cloud transition is enacted over a legacy WAN infrastructure. With few organisations adopting a…