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White Paper Taridium's comms provider VoIP platform combines all the advantages of an open standards solution with the reliability of non-stop hardware and 7x24 monitoring. Taridium's comms platform is deployed on... [29 Feb 2008]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations in comms continues in 2007. Cisco keeps the internet running," said Carolyn Kimber, a panellist from comms user group CMA. In a... [12 Oct 2007]
MoD boosts battlefield comms
News The original contract for the £200m comms network was agreed in 2006 and the network was expanded this summer to provide video cameras, VoIP phones and multiple computers. Falcon works with other MoD... [28 Sep 2007]
Downtime will affect your comms for 10 hours per year
News Europeans comms networks have better than 99.9 per cent uptime, according to research commissioned by the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa). The survey, which is part of a wider Enisa programme... [22 Jan 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The contract will also help support public order policing activities involving several thousand... [03 Nov 2009]
Nottingham Trent uni bets £1.6m on unified comms
News Nottingham Trent University is replacing its legacy ISDX telephone system with a £1.6m Cisco unified comms (UC) network to foster closer collaboration between members of staff. The university's IT director, David Swayne,... [26 Jan 2009]
Set comms free or pay the price, EU told
News He said some countries lack the resources and experience to regulate comms effectively, while political influences could be limiting the opening of markets elsewhere. Consumers in several European countries are still... [11 Dec 2006]
Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?
News Dr Hamadoun Touré, the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) secretary-general, said satellite comms technology can play a vital role in connecting remote and isolated communities around the world. [28 Feb 2008]
Is it 999 for emergency services comms?
News Also speaking at the forum, Jacqui Brookes, CEO of comms trade association the Federation of Communications Services, suggested spectrum allocation should prioritise the emergency services, critical national... [15 Jun 2009]
MoD inks £231m deal to boost comms
News The Ministry of Defence has awarded two comms contracts worth a total of £231m to General Dynamics UK. The deals cover upgrading the UK Armed Forces' Bowman digital radios comms system and improving... [03 Jul 2009]
One in 78: The chances your comms are being monitored
News Half a million requests to see citizens comms data have been made by the government (Photo credit: charbel.akhras under the following Creative Commons licence) What are the chances the government wants to monitor you? [11 Aug 2009]
telent wins £25m firefighters' comms contract
News Technology services company telent has won an eight-year, £25m comms contract with EADS Defence & Security to support England's Fire and Rescue Service. Earlier this year, EADS Defence & Security won the original £200m... [10 Oct 2007]
Microsoft dives into unified comms
News Whereas Microsoft sees software as the foundation of its unified communications strategy, Cisco sees the network as the key to making unified comms work. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Business Division president Jeff... [17 Oct 2007]
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]
MPs hit out at Comms Bill and Ofcom
News Ofcom, the new regulator for the UK's telecommunications and broadcasting market, moved another step closer towards becoming fully operational when the second reading of the Communications Bill was passed on Tuesday evening. [05 Dec 2002]
