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.
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Extracting more capacity and achieving enhanced differentiation in subsea transmission, Geoff Bennett, director of solutions and technology, and Benoit Kowalski, director of subsea, Infinera explain how in two parts.
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The telecommunications industry is being transformed overnight as consumers’ insatiable appetite for data and faster, better quality services continues to grow. Small steps towards digital transformation are no longer enough.
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In the global world of business, companies expect their transactions to move in the blink of an eye. In the finance and high frequency trading (HFT) sectors, this means saving every microsecond possible in the transmission and processing of a trade.
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As the telecoms industry becomes more digitised – from the emergence of IoT technologies to fully digital ecosystems – telecoms providers will rely more heavily on data centre reliability to support their businesses. However, the benefits of digitisation, such as customer satisfaction, enhanced revenue streams and cost savings, are no longer applicable if your data centre is poorly managed.
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Businesses across all sectors are seeing their reputation and bottom line suffer the effects of security breaches. In fact, recent reports show that there were 888 data breaches in the first half of 2015 alone, compromising 246 million data records of customers’ personal and financial information worldwide.
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In the words of the great Ernest Hemingway, things can happen “gradually, then suddenly”. This musing seemed particularly poignant recently when Sony announced the discontinuation of Betamax, once the future of entertainment, but for many of us has long-since been consigned to the scrap heap of technologies we joke about at family gatherings.
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Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks, said Paul Samuelson, an economist who (not coincidentally) had just written a textbook. At this time of year, at least in the northern hemisphere, another cohort of students arrive at university to study ECON 101, which will focus on competitive markets and perfect competition.
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Recent innovations in customer premises equipment (CPE) mean that operators can now bring 1Gbps Layer 3 connectivity to a much bigger market. Just in time, too, explains Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, OneAccess Networks.
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Network functions virtualisation (NFV) has continued to grow and prove popular across many industries in today’s connected world. Telecommunications is one such industry that is reaping the benefits it offers.
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IPv4 is running out and the problems that this causes get more acute every day. How bad is it? ARIN, the regional internet registry covering North America, recently exhausted its supply completely, meaning that companies in the region can now only attain addresses through trading.
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No sooner had the European Commission announced that it will be taking steps to toughen already-stringent data privacy laws, then a UK operator fell victim to a major cyber-security breach.
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We can’t create a strong building on weak foundations. In the telco context, as demands on networks grow, planning and deploying the right infrastructure is a necessity now and some fundamental changes are required if networks are to remain profitable.
