ip video in news
Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News Tayside Fire and Rescue serves 392,000 people spread over 7,500sq km, using the comms system to provide voice calls, instant messaging (IM), email and streaming video for officers whether they're on the front line or in... [04 Nov 2008]
£2.5bn gov't telecommunications contract up for grabs
News The network will see separate fixed and mobile phones replaced with one handset; offer VoIP calls; stream IP CCTV and broadcast quality video; allow data and document sharing; allow bulk electronic data... [05 Aug 2008]
Newsagent Martin McColl signs £4m VPN contract
News According to Martin McColl general manager for IT, Neil Hodge, the system upgrade is intended to improve the reliability of the network, which is a collection of dial-up connections, provide adequate connectivity for... [25 Jun 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News Femtocells are also the great hope of mobile operators as - provided they gain mass market adoption - they could enable operators to reliably serve rich 3G services such as video to consumers at home, without having to... [23 Jun 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News Analysts suggest femtocells could specifically help deliver mobile TV services - a new Analysys Mason report, entitled Critical Ingredients of Mobile TV: femtocells and sideloading, says femtocells could have a significant role to play... [21 May 2008]
Aviva signs £300m comms deal
News Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008   Naked CIO: The true cost of IT   Why IT must escape the belt-tightening   Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities ... [13 May 2008]
BT wins £62m outsourcing deal from KPMG Europe
News BT will be responsible for KPMG's wide area network and local area network refresh and management, deployment of Cisco IP telephony, integration with an existing Microsoft Office Communications Server platform,... [31 Mar 2008]
Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors
News Check out the behind the scenes photo and video stories, along with the rest of our coverage over the past few years. Video: Video: Heathrow T5's cutting-edge baggage tech... [27 Mar 2008]
'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?
News He also said increasing consolidation in the broadband market, together with the massive increase in data traffic brought about by consumer video services, would force many small ISPs to go business-only or be swallowed... [17 Mar 2008]
Will digital switchover boost wireless broadband?
News If you have a mobile broadband platform, nothing prevents the licensee from having video but that video has the additional capability of being two-way and interactive," he said. However, the European... [19 Oct 2007]
Small firms snub videoconferencing
News He told silicon.com's sister site ZDNet UK: "When we talk to customers, if they've got an audio conference, whiteboards and shared applications, then the addition of video over and above that doesn't add tremendous... [05 Sep 2007]
'Ello 'ello 'ello... North Wales police calls up IP
News North Wales Police is implementing a unified communications system from Cisco which will link 75 police stations and provide them with IP phones and video conferencing facilities. The force will use... [10 Aug 2007]
BT pulls plug on mobile TV service
News However, the final straw for BT was the recent backing given by the European Commission to the mobile broadcast technology Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB-H). BT Movio was based on the rival Digital Audio... [27 Jul 2007]
Nuffield Hospitals prescribed £2m LAN
News The network will support traditional voice and video over IP technologies, as well as NHS IT applications such as the Picture Archiving and Communications System. Nuffield Hospitals has signed a £2m... [20 Jul 2007]
Row over European mobile TV standards
News By promoting the Nokia-backed DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) technology, EC intends to reduce fragmentation and accelerate the uptake of mobile TV across its member states. But industry commentators say... [19 Jul 2007]
