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C&W inks £8m deal to hook up Réunion Island
News The increased bandwidth offered by the network will enable it to carry higher volumes of voice and data traffic and support innovative new services, the two companies said. Telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) has inked an £8m, 15-year contract with... [14 Jul 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News Then it will not do to offer 14.4Mbps which is actually 1Mbps or unlimited data traffic which is in reality limited to a few gigabytes per month. Mobile data traffic - generated by USB-sticks and dongles and PC-cards - already exceeds mobile voice... [20 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News The exchange claims the average speed of data traffic within the City of London has been cut to below a millisecond. The move is in response to a demand for low-latency, super high speed delivery of market data across many elements of the trading... [10 Jun 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies. [09 May 2008]
Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity
News Uses of the network will include real-time traffic monitoring via CCTV, improved IT in schools and videoconferencing to help social workers carry out their jobs more effectively. The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the... [08 May 2008]
The high-tech road to happiness
News Smart signs on the motorway give early warnings of traffic conditions, can open or close lanes and control the speed of queuing traffic. Ambitious proposals in the Highways Agency's (HA) business plan for 2008-09 will build on the success of the... [01 Apr 2008]
Ericsson CEO hails mobile broadband 'breakthrough'
News He added: "We see that in the 3G networks that we monitor in Europe data traffic now exceeds voice and accelerates quickly, from between 50 to 1,500 per cent depending on the operator's strategy. Ericsson has partnered with Telstra to roll out a... [11 Feb 2008]
IBM snaffles Congestion Charge contract
News IBM was involved in a tag and beacon trial in Stockholm in 2006 which covered 24km of the city, affected 350,000 car journeys per day and reduced car traffic by 25 per cent. According to the company, the city's bus timetables had to be redesigned... [26 Oct 2007]
Internet NOC-ing shop opens in London
News Williams said the system looks at how the equipment is functioning and, although the traffic volumes are checked, there is no monitoring of the type of traffic going through iBahn's devices. The centre is staffed by technicians who monitor the... [12 Jun 2007]
Inmarsat readies for mobile push
News Data rather than voice is Inmarsat's current money-spinner, accounting for 80 per cent of the company's traffic and 60 per cent of its revenue. Sukawaty said data will remain "the bulk of the business in the future" and Inmarsat is focusing on... [07 Jun 2007]
Fat pipes fatter - but not as fat as we think...
News He added: "The UK does not yet have the infrastructure to support millions watching EastEnders via broadband at the same time," because of the high cost of retaining spare network capacity for times when online traffic is high. [23 Feb 2007]
BA CIO: 'Terminal 5 tech will revolutionise air travel'
News All of this should speed human traffic and improve the experience of flying for the increasing number of passengers passing through the world's busiest international airport. Coby has been credited with turning around much of BA's business by... [21 Sep 2006]
VoIP call quality getting worse - study
News They fear network operators will abuse their power by charging unreasonably high fees and eventually squeeze out competing traffic. are opposed to allowing phone companies or cable operators, which own the underlying broadband networks, to... [25 Jul 2006]
Speed trial aims to keep London's drivers legal
News Transport for London (TfL) said it is investigating the technology and plans to run a trial next year in an attempt to cut road traffic deaths. Vehicles in London could soon be fitted with technology that will automatically slow them down if they... [24 May 2006]
BT kick-starts wireless cities project
News He also said the rollout could aid public safety and support applications such as portable wireless cameras to combat crime and traffic congestion. Ultimately BT plans to deliver high-speed wi-fi to 12 cities. [18 May 2006]
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