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Photos: Motor Show showcases the future of car tech
Photo This funky looking car is charged using the cable that comes out of the car's front grille. This is the Koenigsegg CCR - one of the fastest and rarest cars in the world - on display at this week's British International Motor Show in London. [25 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo The fibre runs through these cable ducts - which are too wide for rats to get its teeth around, so no danger of outages caused by hungry vermin. silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a... [22 Jul 2008]
Allied Telesyn Revolutionizes the Telco Industry Solution Lays the Foundation for Video Services Over ADSL
White Paper The IOCs needed a simple, scalable way to deliver the service at a price point competitive to cable and satellite companies. In order to truly compete with cable providers, the video service needed to be broadcast-quality and jitter-free. [18 Jul 2008]
PowerTech's AS/400 Security Solution Delivers Peace of Mind, Ease of Use for Fortune 500 Broadband Company
White Paper Charter has enjoyed continued growth through a series of acquisitions of smaller cable companies. Bringing the disparate systems and networks also acquired along the way into compliance with enterprise security standards created a huge technical... [18 Jul 2008]
GameRail Gives Online Gamers a High-Performance Edge
White Paper Missouri-based GameRail connects more than 34 million homes in the continental United States, Alaska, and Canada through partnerships with top national and regional DSL and cable broadband providers. The company wanted to deliver a flawless online... [18 Jul 2008]
IPL Case Study - ntl: (Virgin Media)
White Paper These included a range of digital and analogue cable television, broadband internet and telephone services. ntl:, now part of Virgin Media, was the UK's leading supplier of bundled services to residential customers. [18 Jul 2008]
Allied Telesyn Products Enable Largest FTTH Network in the U.S.
White Paper SureWest needed a non-proprietary solution that would help them not only consolidate all of their fiber assets onto a single network, but also scale for future growth and provide advanced video services to compete with the incumbent cable provider. [18 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News C is for Cable & Wireless O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. Following BT's Tuesday announcement that it was to plough... [17 Jul 2008]
Using PacketCable QoS to Deliver Carrier-Class Telephony Services
White Paper Cable operators face tremendous opportunities to deliver residential and business-class telephony services, but this requires the ability to ensure end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS). Operators seeking to capture voice revenues from incumbent... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News C is for Cable & Wireless BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast internet. The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study C is for Cable & Wireless International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and free up time for its tech team. Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to... [15 Jul 2008]
Making the Right Call: Ensuring a Successful IP Telephony Implementation
White Paper The benefits of a converged network seem obvious: not having to create, staff, and run two different networks for voice and data, running just one cable to desktops instead of two, and a reduction in phone tariffs are all good for business. [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News C is for Cable & Wireless Moreover, some seven million consumers - or nearly half of all broadband customers in the UK - are technically incapable of getting the standard headline speed of 8Mbps as only around half (42 per cent) of non-cable... [14 Jul 2008]
C&W inks £8m deal to hook up Réunion Island
News Telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) has inked an £8m, 15-year contract with telecoms operator Outremer Telecom for a high speed network to Réunion Island - a small French territory off the coast of Madagascar - providing faster access to internet, mobile... [14 Jul 2008]
Corning Cable Systems Case Study: Navistar International
White Paper After further evaluation, the company selected Corning Cable Systems' optical fiber cable with guaranteed Gigabit Ethernet link length performance over 62.5 micron multimode fiber. The principal network architect for the Center, Steve Ehlerding... [11 Jul 2008]
