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Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment In fact, the biggest challenge for business travellers is not finding a network connection but the complexity arising from having multiple modems, logons and payment methods. These include AT&T's Global Network Client, iPass' Mobile Office and... [12 Jun 2008]
Michel Khan
CIO Profile In February, Specsavers signed a £4.5m deal to outsource its wide area network operations. Michel Khan has headed up the IT of this eye-care retailer for the last 12 years. In that time, he has won accolades for the company's supply chain and... [11 Jun 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment There's the loss of dollars where an account has money stolen from it and then there's cost to a business where it has to fix damage to a network and damage to reputation in some circumstances. We think that this is one area where a lot can be done... [15 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Take into account also that Scrabulous is purported to make its Indian creators £13,000 a month and is one of Facebook's 10 most popular applications attracting users to the social network, it remains to be seen who will have their cake and eat it. [29 Jan 2008]
Getting more out of the net
Comment For many businesses, the internet is now their main wide area network resource. The market is already red-hot with many vendors like Blue Coat, Expand, Packeteer and Riverbed offering appliances that sit at either end of a network and compress... [02 Nov 2007]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment The best way to get reliable performance out of a wide area network (WAN) is to install your own high-speed gigabit fibre optic cables between all the locations in your organisation. Virtual private network (VPN) providers use a mix of their own... [09 Jul 2007]
Devil's Advocate: In search of wireless nirvana
Comment Offering this through the ethernet link has attractions but only if the network link is a cable. An appealing application for power over ethernet is support for a centrally powered, distributed network that channels data packets on fewer and fewer... [22 Mar 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Mobile data for business, at last
Comment The uncertainty of cost pressures is certainly one dampener on wide scale deployment but experience leads to growing confidence and a successful pilot in one area can lead to projects elsewhere. In part, this is based on the needs of operators to... [04 Mar 2005]
VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means
Comment The IP network may be a local area network, a company wide area network, a telco's core network or even the public internet. This can save money on phone calls between locations since the voice runs over the existing wide area data links between... [10 Feb 2005]
VoIP: Has the dream of convergence failed?
Comment You only need to buy and manage one wide area network. Siemens's Bishop says: "10 Mbps ethernet is dirt cheap and adequate for a voice only network. And in some cases, the cheapest way to do that is to run it over a separate network. [21 Jan 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Convergence here at last?
Comment Convergence, it seems, can deliver benefits indirectly to the market as well as directly to the network. Cable & Wireless, for instance, has had a strong converged services offering for a number of years which has helped it grow significant... [14 Jan 2005]
Radioactive: The right role for WiMax
Comment Wi-Fi has supposedly sown up the LAN and Bluetooth the personal area network. A single WiMax network base station for mobile devices, for example, is expected to offer a range of 3km. WiMax must be seen in context with its rivals - there have been... [05 Jan 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Out-of-the-box options
Comment Switches that control the traffic on local area networks (LANs) and routers that connect LANs to each other forming wide area networks (WANs) have been around for years. At the same time security appliances emerged, network appliances became more... [09 Jul 2004]
Leader: Who will enterprises crown the winners in wireless?
Leader This starts at the level of RFID and other smart tags, moves to personal area network technology including Bluetooth plus upcoming, faster technologies, reaches the wireless LAN (typically Wi-Fi, where Intel's Centrino success is plain to see... [26 Feb 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Defeating the viruses in your Palm
Comment Dangers multiply as the PDA becomes part of a public network. Organisations that have sophisticated policies for securing their fixed local and wide area networks typically have little in place to manage the security of laptops, let alone PDAs. [24 Jun 2003]
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