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Aviva signs £300m comms deal

News The world's fifth largest insurance group, Aviva has signed a six-year contract with Cable & Wireless Europe, Asia & US worth £300m. The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and...

Tags: voip, c&w, aviva

[13 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News As web users' thirst for bandwidth soars, cable broadband purveyor Virgin Media is looking to squeeze four times the capacity out of its optical network - but without the expense of ripping out and upgrading its fibre.

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Video: How to manage tech complexity

Video Watch this video to find out what tech execs from leading companies including British Airways, Cable & Wireless and Unilever think about managing the complexities of their IT infrastructure, and what techniques they use to get the best out of...

Tags: infrastructure, servers, complexity

[06 May 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News C is for Cable & Wireless An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News C is for Cable & Wireless BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News C is for Cable & Wireless Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned the current systems that constitute the internet will not be able to cope with the...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News C is for Cable & Wireless Other challenges include boosting tech research through EU-funded projects, further encouraging the use of online technologies and promoting more cross border cooperation - such as electronic signatures.

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News C is for Cable & Wireless Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. There are also plans to expand Tesco Digital to TV, films and games in the near...

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

Investec Gandon Banks on Flexible Managed Communications System

whitepaper In one of the most comprehensive data and voice system installations by a single communications supplier in Ireland, Cable & Wireless totally overhauled their network infrastructure. Investec Gandon is a leading investment banking and private...

Tags: banking, clients, voice, international

[10 Apr 2008]

Cisco Subscriber Registration Center for Service Providers

whitepaper According to Allied Business Intelligence, the number of subscribers to residential data-over-cable services will leap from 3.3 million in 1999 to 58.6 million in 2005 with the United States accounting for 14 million of those subscriptions.1 In...

Tags: business intelligence / data warehousing, cable, high speed, data services

[10 Apr 2008]

Legacy Transformation Guidance for a Small or Medium Business: From Analysis to Recommendations

whitepaper A fictional telecommunication service company providing high-speed Internet access, cable television, local and long distance telephone and wireless services to residential customers and local businesses in several metro areas in the mid-west is...

Tags: erp

[09 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News C is for Cable & Wireless Laptops and PC datacards are the next largest product segment (103 apiece), followed by wireless routers and USB modems (60 apiece), the GSA survey found. In addition, there are seven personal media players with HSDPA...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

Supporting the IP Multimedia Subsystem for Mobile, Wireline, and Cable Providers

whitepaper Efforts within specific standards bodies to create open, standards-based architectures and technologies for data, voice, and video services in mobile, wireline, and cable networks are also discussed. Subscribers connect to an array of services...

Tags: ip technologies

[03 Apr 2008]

Comcast and Time Warner to invest in 4G…

News Comcast and Time Warner Cable are looking to help bankroll a new joint venture between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to deliver 4G wireless services, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Wireless is the one place where cable hasn't been...

Tags: comcast, 4g, time warner, operator

[26 Mar 2008]

Come an' Avatalk in Second Life, urges BT

News C is for Cable & Wireless BT is upping its presence in Second Life with a trial of its free 'Avatalk' phone and texting service. The one month virtual world pilot will start on 26 March allowing users to make 10 free calls (of up to one hour each...

Tags: bt, trial, ip, sms

[20 Mar 2008]

Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT

News The organisation uses the GSi Remote Worker Service from Cable & Wireless to ensure it complies with the Communications Electronics Security Group (the information assurance arm of GCHQ) rules on secure remote connectivity to government networks.

Tags: oft, home working, c&w, connectivity

[18 Mar 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News C is for Cable & Wireless Time is running out for so-called "unlimited broadband" packages, according to analysts and ISPs. PlusNet has been one of the few providers to buck this trend - preferring instead to offer packages based on fixed download...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

News C is for Cable & Wireless During the early 1990s Berners-Lee worked to develop the web, specifying the URL, HTTP and HTML standards. And then of course it changed the web. He gave the example of combining online bank statements and photos with a...

Tags: berners-lee, semantic web, google, internet

[13 Mar 2008]

Home Gateway

whitepaper At present, home gateway devices are available in market in various physical device personalities or form factors like the SOHO Router home gateway, cable Router/MTA home gateway, DSL Router/IAD home gateway, STB home gateway etc.

Tags: cable, gateway, connectivity, consumer

[12 Mar 2008]

Tennis federation rallies web presence

Case Study C is for Cable & Wireless The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has beefed up its website to improve availability and speed for millions of tennis fans following the scores of Davis Cup matches online.

Tags: tennis, ntt, website, servers

[12 Mar 2008]

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