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In a time of economic restraint, IT organisations are under pressure to do more, with less. Budgets are flat – or falling – and companies are forced to look carefully at their network infrastructure and ask if it provides too much at too greater cost?
Budget pressure, the need [...] [...more]
As we all know, the trend towards mobile communications among workers, students, and guests has pressed for the rapid migration from Wi-Fi hot spots for a handful of casual users to Wi-Fi networks for high performance users. When selecting the Wi-Fi solution for your organization, you need to make certain the architecture is powerful and [...] [...more]
Grinding slow but exceedingly small, the IEEE has, since September 2005, been crafting a standard commonly known as PoE (Power over Ethernet) or, in its most recent official guise, 802.3at. It is a technology that integrates electrical power into a standard LAN infrastructure: it enables power to be provided to the network device (such as [...] [...more]
FMC (Fixed-Mobile Convergence) is the Kevin Pietersen of the telecommunications industry: so much promise, some amazing performances but engendering so many conflicting opinions as to leave cricket lovers frustrated up to now: you’ve got the talent, Kevin, for goodness sake settle down and use it properly!
FMC is the coming together of wired and wireless technologies [...] [...more]
Workers differ in their mobility needs, from sales force road warriors to board directors and IT support staff. When assessing enterprise mobility, consider:
- The need for individual and team productivity
Work/life balance objectives
Business continuity requirements
The adverse weather in January in the UK was a good test: could your people work remotely at short notice? If movement to [...] [...more]
Matt Perry, technical director at Aerohive reckons that wireless network controllers were not put in place for management reasons: “In any enterprise wireless network of any reasonable size, there will be multiple controllers – another layer of complexity: Access Points (APs), controllers and a separate management system. We see it as inevitable that controllers are [...] [...more]
I use three devices to get online on a daily basis: my mobile phone, my desktop computer and the set-top box in my living room. Each of these devices stores vital and personal online information, from my favorite Web sites and services to even my bank account and e-mail. Over the years, the Web has [...] [...more]
To make sure we serve up the best content at our events, one of my tasks is to review the presentations as we receive them and I am impressed by the educational content but a few stand out either from a subject matter point of view or the breath of content and I will be [...] [...more]
HTC Pro Smartphone…Power Meets Beauty, Work Meets Play
We have teamed up HTC Europe Co Ltd, sponsor of the Wireless and Mobile 09 event, and one of the fastest-growing companies in the mobile sector to offer its attendees the chance to win one of 4 HTC Pro Smartphones. Simply by registering free you are in halfway [...] [...more]
As we have seen, many of the technology barriers to secure and efficient wireless working have been addressed and solutions are available as commodities rather than bespoke developments - with pricing to match - thus making wireless working a viable project for enterprises of any size.
It is important to remember that in most cases the [...] [...more]