Join Aruba on stand 352 at IP Expo 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]
802.11n is the most significant change since the 802.11 standard emerged, with across the board changes, including the physical and MAC layers, modulation and antennas. Enabling the standard is an Herculean task, with proposals from the volunteer group meetings eliciting thousands of comments, each resolved either by a written response declining it or text explaining [...] [...more]
Founded in 1994, Opera Software can justifiably argue that it is the oldest browser company in the world. Its vision is to provide a Web experience on any device. Why should we care? According to Jon S von Tetzchner, Opera’s co-founder and CEO (and contributor to IP Leaders), only 12% of phones are Apple iPhones, [...] [...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]
We are pleased to announce that the full session programme for Wireless and Mobile, which took place on 20-21 May 2009, is now available for download via this blog: IP Leaders. You are required to register in order to gain access to the audio (.mp3 format) and presentations (.pdf) format. To do so, simply complete this [...] [...more]
With a host of technologies out there for the provision of mobile communications, which route should an enterprise take? In the current climate, organisations are seeking at best to grow and at worst stabilise their revenues. They are seeking to reduce latencies in their processes and speed up the time to market of their products [...] [...more]
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