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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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How can data centre operators manage increasing network capacity requirements and differentiate against competitors?
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Over-the-top (OTT) players have been seen as something of a thorn in the side of carriers, since their arrival in the market heralded an end to the exclusivity they held over the customer relationship.
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In the last couple of years Myanmar has undergone a metamorphosis. The removal of international sanctions enabled its entry onto the global business stage and 'Myanmar' became the word of the moment.
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Both hosting and cloud solutions require the same underlying infrastructure – a reliable internet connection, hardware that can house the company’s applications and software, and managed capabilities to ensure the ability to add, move, and change users on demand. The key differentiators are the pricing model, the type of security required, the amount of management and visibility into the system a company requires, and the type of applications it supports.
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Meeting the rising content and service expectations of subscribers across multiple devices has presented new challenges and opportunities to network operators globally.
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On October 5 2012, India was the latest country to experience a 'Flash Crash', as its national stock exchange 'nifty' index fell by more than 15% in a few minutes. The cause was a series of huge orders, processed automatically according to preset algorithms. Nobody knew it was about to occur. Nobody understood why it happened. Nobody knew when it would stop.
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In the Berlin district of Treptow Spathsfelde, Deutsche Telekom is waging drone warfare on copper thieves.
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Innovation is not the first topic that springs to mind when thinking about wholesale but international and domestic carriers are showing their retail counterparts how to target innovation where it matters most.
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In February, Orange and Alcatel-Lucent laid claims to successfully completing the world’s first live trial of 400G. By May, BT and Ciena were boasting of an ‘800G super-channel’. The race to the commercial launch of the next-generation of fibre-optic super speeds is certainly gathering pace in 2013.
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Trudging up the mountains in the rain, and hail this weekend, I had plenty of time to reflect on the work that the charity we support here at Capacity does…
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First of all, what do people mean by this newly overused term ‘big data?’ I have encountered three explanations that I like.
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Europe’s wholesale telecoms community may be learning to draw comfort from the thought that over-the-top (OTT) services may be as much an opportunity for them as a threat.
