North Yorkshire County Council are working with Arqiva to improve mobile phone coverage in #notspots. A #notspot is an area of no mobile coverage. These are prevalent in rugged environments, which increases the amount of radio shadow that masts create. Arqiva won an open tender to supply additional mobile phone network masts to improve the…
Tag: ADSL
BT Launch Ultrafast Broadband @ 152Mbps and 314Mbps
For those of you lucky enough to be able to get your ADSL connection over copper, rather than damp string, BT is now offering higher speeds, up to 314Mb/s. This is Ultrafast Broadband, offering speeds of over 100Mb/s. To be fair, BT has previously had speeds like this using their FTTP (Fibre to the Premises)…
Proof: ADSL does operate on wet string
Given the pervasiveness of the Internet, it’s not surprising that there are people out there trying different things. Recently we brought you the intuitive NetValve speed throttling appliance. Now courtesy of some hardworking network technicians at ISP Andrews and Arnold here in the UK, we can reveal that ADSL really does operate over a wet…
Product Announcement: Cisco ISR 1000 router
Cisco have launched a new entry point ISR router. This is the Cisco ISR 1000 series, intended as the new entry point for SME connection into the corporate network. It supports lower density remote locations accessing through either an MPLS link or a VPN using the Internet. This isn’t designed to support NFV, but it…
SD-WAN: What are the business benefits?
What are the business benefits of SD-WAN deployment? SD-WAN stands for a Software-Defined Wide Area Network. It simplifies network management. It reduces the cost of the network infrastructure. It provides better network governance. And it is easier to manage the previous generation Hybrid Networking. With 50% of the data in networks now being delivered to…
Engadget: Virgin Media Wifi is starting to add capacity to it’s network
Virgin Media Wifi is starting to add capacity to its network, using customers SuperHub v3 routers to according to Engadget. This will use separate bandwidth provisioned to the SuperHub router and create a new SSID only for public WiFi use on the device. This operates in a similar way that BT’s FON environment works. The…
What is Local Internet Breakout?
Read stories on CoherentLight about: Local Internet Breakout What is Local Internet Breakout? Local Internet Breakout provides access to the Internet close to the user at each site.The previous centralised internet breakout model was different. In the past, maintaining corporate security used larger centralised gateways to the Internet. These central portals provided not only firewalls…
Avago to buy Broadcom for $37bn
Avago Technologies is going to spend $37bn in acquiring rival Broadcom . This makes it the largest ship technology merger to date. Avago which initially was part of HP‘s test and measurement division, which was spun out as Agilent. In October 2013, Avago bought LSI Industries for $6.6bn, followed in February 2015 by the acquisition…