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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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Cloud service providers, by definition, like to centralise everything. So, installing intelligent equipment at the very edge of the network goes against almost every ideological instinct they possess. But as the market for enterprise cloud services evolves and demand for bespoke cloud solutions increases, this instinct breaks down.
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With global revenues from 4G likely to reach £60 billion by 2014, how can mobile operators be sure keep competitive while making 4G pay? And what does this mean for operators and network capacity?
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Recognising and acting on what is ahead for an industry is an ongoing challenge. You do not have to dig deeply into our industry’s history to find both victors and victims, who either embraced or missed the future.
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Personally, I have three different electronic health records providers, and that is even without signing up for Google Health (2008-2012 RIP) or Microsoft HealthVault (2007-present). Massachusetts General Hospital alone has three different storage systems, depending on which doctors need to be reached.
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We routinely think of traffic patterns as representative of where carriers should invest, where investments are making the best return, or simply as a regulatory responsibility.
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Ovum has recently studied the accounts of over 200 leading telecoms companies for our analysis of the size and profitability of the market for wholesale services. Although few telcos publish data on the performance of their wholesale business units, we have been able to draw some conclusions from the data that are available.
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is quickly becoming one of the biggest trends in the networking industry.
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Data traffic continues to grow inexorably, with the predicted global hourly increase measured in terabits and the mobile networks creaking under the strain.
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Sometimes, macro trends don’t just continue – they accelerate.
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Kevin Koch, chief operating officer of Helios Towers Africa (HTA), has to solve operational problems that most COOs would not recognise. HTA solves a lot of unconventional problems, because it acquires, builds and manages telecoms towers for operators in Africa.
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A comparison from the European Commission (EC) between the price of a litre of milk and the cost of domestic phone calls in EU countries has not gone down well with the telecoms community.
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Indonesia is a country of 250 million people, making it the fourth-largest population in the world.
