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Maximising Your Fibre Network ROI

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped unify the call for universal broadband to ensure that no family, frontline worker, small business, or community is left behind without connectivity again. The question going forward for communications service providers (CSPs) is which long-term broadband network strategy ensures high-speed broadband is available to everyone. By Vanesa Diaz, Senior Market Development Manager for Corning Optical Communications.

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Tata Communications and Cisco Systems expand global strategic partnership

Onboards Cisco Meraki based Wi-Fi solutions and SD-WAN services into Tata Communications ecosystem.

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How Aerial Cable Deployment can drive broadband expansion

By Tobias Schubert, Marketing; Major Accounts; EMEA, Carrier Networks, Corning Optical Communications.

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What are the prospects for WANs in 2021?

It’s often advisable to look back before stepping forward. While the adage is that history often repeats itself, hindsight is still an invaluable tool, as it allows us to learn from our mistakes. The key to success is then to apply the lessons that have been learnt. By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist, and David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks.

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Modernising networks to cater for the changing app landscape

It can be hard to bring the topic of networking into conversations at board level. By Nick Cross, Vice President, Network, Security & Automation, EMEA at VMware.

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Five ways SD-WAN can support retailers’ digital transformations

These digital strategies can help merchants enhance the customer experience and stand out from competitors — now and in the future. By John Tait, Global Managing Director, TNS Payments Market.

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5G and fibre – where are we now and where are we heading?

It is a critical time in the lifecycle of fibre deployment and correct decisions today will reward us long into the future. By Mike Knott, FTTH Market Development Manager for Corning Optical Communications.

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Corporate WANs left WANting

Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist, Telia Carrier reveals the findings of a recent report of corporate WANs and offers advice on making network choices.

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WFH? Time your VPN had an SD-WAN upgrade

SD-WAN has come a long way, says cloudDNA Co-founder & CTO, Al Taylor.

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The Future of WANs: How will their performance improve?

Going back to the latter months of last year, it would have been incomprehensible to know what effect Covid-19 was going to have on the way we work. Some say it will continue, with staff working from home and the way we use and now rely heavily on wide area networks (WANs), internet and the cloud. This has created a major shift in the use and management of WANs. By David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks.

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IPv6 is finally gaining a foothold – have ISPs seen the light?

The successor to IPv4 is nothing new in the world of IP addresses. In fact, you may be surprised to hear that IPv6 launched back in the 1990s. However, to say that ISPs have been slow to upgrade to IPv6 is something of an understatement. Even though our supply of IPv4 addresses is now depleted and there is huge potential for IPv6 to grow the Internet, ISPs have been reluctant. However, new data from the RIPE NCC, the Internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, reveals that 66% of its Local Internet Registries (LIRs) now hold IPv6 number resources. IPv6 is gaining traction. In this article Stephen Strowes, Senior Research Scientist at the RIPE NCC, poses the question, have ISPs finally seen the light on IPv6?

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Videos

DCS talks to Jake Green from Scolmore at the Data Centre Alliance's 10x10 Event on 16th February 2023.
Hans van der Waal, Global IT Director, Travelex discusses the company’s ambitious digital transformation programme as it looks to enhance its bricks and mortar business activities with more digital offerings. He explains the challenges of migrating global legacy IT infrastructure into the cloud, and outlines the many benefits that Travelex has realised so far on its digitalisation journey.
Interview with Bev Markland, Chief People Officer at Agilitas. Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace.
Elizabeth Green, EMEA Advisory and Cyber Lead, at Dell Technologies, discusses the ever-shifting cybersecurity landscape, where cyber resilience is very much the focus.

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Phishing attacks remain a significant threat to organizations. According to the data presented by the Atlas VPN team, based on the survey conducted by Egress with 500 cybersecurity leaders, 92% of organizations were victims of phishing in the past 12 months, and 86% experienced negative consequences as a result.
Specialist in data centre design, build and engineering launches fully customisable prefabricated data centre solutions for customers within government, defence, and other business-critical sectors.
Nebulon has introduced two new zero-trust offerings: Two-Person Commit and Single Sign-on (SSO).
International research report by Westcon-Comstor reveals challenges of complex multivendor portfolios, and the need for distributor marketplaces to simplify and add value,