Blog
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Marynet Bassily, director of procurement and supply chain, EMEA at Vantage Data Centers, explains how she has overcome many obstacles to establish a career spanning construction and telecoms – and how she is encouraging her company and the wider industry to focus on inclusivity -
Microsoft has quietly added voice calls to its Teams package. now, no one will need a fixed-line phone on their desk, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Leading OTT players know that extra capacity gives an in-region advantage. Jim Fagan, chief strategy and revenue officer at Global Cloud Xchange writes
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From ageing infrastructure to on-demand energy models, Terry Storrar, MD of Leaseweb UK, writes about the new quick wins improving data centre sustainability
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While many believe satellite and fibre will save the day for unconnected Africa, Wim van Thillo, CEO and co-founder at Pharrowtech, has another suggestion
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With the exploding use of APIs to drive new partnerships and services across all markets, the demand for a compliant, core-and-edge data centre platform which can bring diverse sectors together will skyrocket.
Forthcoming events
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Giant Japanese ISP Biglobe has gone for BroadSoft's unified communications solution for the SME market.
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Broadsoft has launched a new suite of unified communications solutions which will let carriers maximise their SDN and NFV investments.
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AT&T is expanding its ultra-fast internet to eleven more metros areas to reach a total of sixty-seven major Metros, including forty-five by the end of 2016.
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Capacity Africa presented the winners of the first Capacity Africa Awards with their prizes at the 10th anniversary Capacity Africa event in Uganda’s capital Kampala.
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A phenomenon has developed at telecoms industry events in 2016: the miniature city. I first noticed this earlier this year around the time that news from Mobile World Congress was dominating the technology media. Amongst the inevitable virtual reality headsets and superfast new mobile handsets, I observed the sheer number of model cities and sports stadiums that littered the show’s exhibition floors in the images from the show floor that I saw.
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In the satellite communications world, latency is one instance where bigger never means better. Simply put, the less time a data packet takes to travel from the source, to the server, and back again, the happier everyone will be. Latency itself has somewhat been a dirty word – as even on the most technically advanced geostationary (GEO) satellites, the 22,500 mile distance from Earth to the satellite gives latency of around 700 milliseconds (ms). LEO, or low earth orbit, satellites face the same latency issues but, as these satellites are lower to the Earth and have shorter distances to travel, their latency numbers are closer to around 60 - 100ms.
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In its digital strategy review, Ofcom set out to determine the best framework for accelerating fibre investment in the UK – an area where we are increasingly falling behind our continental neighbours (and even more so vis-à-vis countries in Asia).
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Technology is continuing to play a major role in all aspects of business – shifting from what once was an operational support function, to shaping product and service delivery, customer interaction and business transformation. As such, the stakes – driven by the needs of the new digital economy – keep getting higher and IT is under constant pressure to adapt and improve.
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VoLTE has been one of the most highly anticipated network features of recent years, with expectations that roll-outs would have already been completed by now. Unfortunately there are still very few market deployments on what is now a three year old standard. So what really is the truth behind the delay?
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The internet as we know it will be almost unrecognisable within the next five years, as the rate of technology change continues to accelerate exponentially.
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Michael Malone, founder and former CEO of iiNet, has joined the board of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) board.
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It’s lonely at the top: “Do people come up to you at parties and tell you their broadband speed?” I asked Gavin Patterson, the chief executive of BT Group. “Oh yes,” he said, and rolled his eyes.
