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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...
[13 May 2008]
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.
[09 May 2008]
News Verizon Communications's business unit said yesterday it would help build an undersea cable connecting Europe, India and the Middle East in order to expand its global network and support internet traffic.
[07 May 2008]
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...
[06 May 2008]
whitepaper Based in the Netherlands, Kannegieter distributes electrical products and cable solutions to installers of communication networks. The company needs to continually improve services to help distinguish itself in a competitive market.
[06 May 2008]
News The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of the on-demand TV service. This is the first time iPlayer has been available on a TV platform and will bring full quality BBC programmes to the...
[30 Apr 2008]
Photo Pictured are the different layers of the cable, including the fibreoptic itself, a protective steel sheath, copper sheet which carries 12kV of charge to power the optical amplifiers, and finally white plastic insulation.
[29 Apr 2008]
News C is for Cable & Wireless European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband, says the European Commission, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe. An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority...
[28 Apr 2008]
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...
[22 Apr 2008]
News C is for Cable & Wireless The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London...
[21 Apr 2008]
News C is for Cable & Wireless More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the internet with around 80 per cent of those people being hooked up to broadband connections. Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now...
[18 Apr 2008]
News The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of existing copper networks, and is able to deal with multiple high-definition video streams and near-instant music downloads.
[16 Apr 2008]
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. Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with...
[15 Apr 2008]
Photo Installing an internet connection can be difficult - especially if the cable is about 9,000km long and very deep underwater. The Ile de Sein (pictured) is a massive ship that sports a crew of 60, who work in shifts to lay cable 24 hours a day...
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The Cisco Cable IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture utilizes technology and innovation to enable the transition from a broadband service provider to an experience provider. The Cisco IP NGN unifies separate network, service, and...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Upon becoming executive director of Women in Cable & Telecommunications (WICT) in early 2003, Diane James, CAE, quickly discovered her organization had a problem. The membership association's technology was, in her words, "inadequate and outdated.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This paper talks about Cable IP Solutions for High-Availability Networks. Cable operators are migrating toward converged network architectures to achieve minimized capital and operational expenditures and realize higher returns on invested capital.
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper As Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS)-based broadband cable IP services continue to grow, cable operators can harness MPLS VPN technology, along with DOCSIS, as the foundation for their multi-service broadband networks of...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Cisco Systems support for the Data over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) Set-top Gateway (STG) brings intelligence and flexibility to the cable video distribution network. Incorporating out-of-band (OOB) messaging in DOCSIS digitally...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper This paper discusses Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) standards, outlines benefits to migrate to DOCSIS 1.1, and highlights the challenges of a migration to DOCSIS 1.1. It gives the motivation to migrate to DOCSIS 1.1, also...
[10 Apr 2008]
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