dial-up
RSS dial-upGreek island gets wireless mesh network
News But today it plays host to Negroponte who owns a holiday home on it and has long had an interest in bringing internet access to the island, setting up local dial-up internet service provider 12Net in the 1990s. [24 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment The basic idea was to be able to roam the planet, communicating by all possible means, which at the time invariably meant the fixed and mobile telephone network using dial-up modems. And in the worst case it was necessary to dial in to the UK from... [22 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News D is for Dial-up Ofcom's current regulatory regime was set up for copper-based infrastructure and was largely a response to BT's former monopoly in this market. The rules, therefore, currently state that market-dominating networks need to be opened... [17 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News D is for Dial-up The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1,000Mbps in the future. BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to... [15 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study D is for Dial-up 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. Picone said Mimecast was one of the few providers that could deliver this kind of data... [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News D is for Dial-up And fewer than one in 10 (eight per cent) of those subscribing to an up to 8Mbps service can confirm they actually receive the full 8Mbps. Brits are still not satisfied with broadband speeds - and with good reason since actual line... [14 Jul 2008]
Anthony & Sylvan Pools Takes the Plunge with VoIP
White Paper Clients no longer need to hang up and dial another number to reach the right person, employees enjoy productivity-enhancing features, and the solution is easy and cost-effective to manage in-house. They spoke with customers of each vendor, watched... [14 Jul 2008]
Britannic Management Services Boosts Staff Productivity by 80% Solution
White Paper Remote workers used a dial-up connection, which the company had been using for around six years. Britannic found their remote access system too slow and costly. Britannic was looking for a cost-effective and secure way for their 1,300 staff to... [11 Jul 2008]
SonicWALL Case Study: The Body Shop
White Paper Connectivity was via ADSL, with automatic failover to a dial-up modem integrated into each SP. The Body Shop Canada has long been sold on the business benefits of broadband communications between headquarters and its stores. [11 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study D is for Dial-up The company predicts it could save around £1m in terms of up front costs with each of the 1,800 licences costing just £25 per year for 25GB of storage. We utilised Google Sites as a communications channel to put up training material. [10 Jul 2008]
VPN Performance Management Down to End User Level
White Paper Having remote employees connect to a data center via a VPN is much less expensive compared to a wide-area-network or dial-up connections. The deployment of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) by large enterprises has finally started to accelerate as... [10 Jul 2008]
movianVPN Deployment Guide for Secure PIX Firewall VPN Gateway
White Paper The corporate intranet or VPN (Virtual Private Network) is accessed through a gateway server the user connects to by wireline dial-up or wireless access. For mobile professionals, a handheld personal computer such as a Personal Digital Assistant... [10 Jul 2008]
A Reconfigurable Ethernet/SONET Circuit-Based Metro Network Architecture
White Paper The paper describes how RESCUE can be used for two applications: dial-up service to Internet service provider routers and file transfers. This paper proposes a service concept in which high-speed Ethernet interfaces from end hosts are dynamically... [10 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment The fact most viewers, downloading from 48Kbps dial-up links - this was 1998 after all - struggled to view the video was conveniently ignored by all. I remember our launch stirred up the market - in wider media circles, not just tech or business... [07 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News D is for Dial-up The UK's business efficiency is being threatened by relatively slow broadband speeds, according to a report by the Communications Management Association. The Communications Management Association's (CMA's) Next Generation Access... [07 Jul 2008]
