Cisco: Good results and leading Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, but challenges...
IT industry bellwether Cisco has issued better than expected quarterly results. The networking equipment giant has reported Q4 profits of $2.3 billion (up 3.2 per cent), on revenues of $12.8 billion...
View ArticleMicrosoft must restore cloud reputation after Skype outage
Microsoft faces a struggle to restore the reputation of its Skype brand after a 15-hour outage left the free version of the service unusable for millions of customers worldwide yesterday. Microsoft...
View ArticleMP warns it may be too late to stop surveillance plans, as IT sector voices...
Vodafone, 3, o2, BT, and EE are among several telcos and technology companies to express disquiet at the UK government’s plans to extend surveillance of citizens’ private communications and internet...
View ArticleUPDATED: BT & Openreach broadband slammed by MPs as calls for breakup grow
UPDATED WITH NEW FIGURES A damning report has criticised the broadband quality and speed provided by BT and its standalone infrastructure subsidiary, Openreach, and demanded the cutting of all ties...
View ArticleUPDATED: Google testing ‘Fiber Phone’ VoIP services and 5G as it overtakes Apple
UPDATED Google Fiber, the Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) division of the internet giant, is reportedly testing new voice functionality among select US subscribers. A new VoIP app called Fiber Phone will...
View ArticleBT broadband outage hits millions of customers nationwide
A major outage yesterday deprived up to three million BT customers across the UK of their broadband services. The problems began yesterday afternoon at about 2.40pm. BT tweeted at 5.04pm that services...
View ArticleHuge growth in video traffic, mobile data, and smart device usage by 2020
Three-quarters of the world’s mobile data traffic by 2020 will be video, according to a new report, and 55 per cent of mobile data traffic is video today, it says. The report, Cisco’s Visual Networking...
View ArticleWhitepaper: Surveillance as a communications centre via UC and SIP
With unified communications, voice services (including IP telephony), instant messaging, web conferencing (audio and visual), email, SMS, and web-desks (desktops shared via an internet connection) can...
View ArticleOfcom slams BT’s ‘unacceptable’ leased-line services, imposes time limits
Ofcom has slammed BT’s performance in providing wholesale leased-line services to businesses, describing it as “not acceptable”. The telecoms regulator is imposing 40-working-day time limits on new BT...
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Infographic: Is your network future-ready for UC and collaboration?
Over the next two years, 34 per cent of organisations will introduce unified communications and collaboration tools, such as Skype for Business or VoIP. However, only half of all organisations have...
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