Benchmarking Integration…

Just finished some testing at test equipment partner Spirent's offices in glamorous Crawley with client Voipex - some fab results on VoIP optimization so watch this space for the forthcoming report - and it made me think just how...
Anything New For 2013?

So here we are, already several weeks into 2013 and is there anything new to report on the networking front?
What Recession Exactly?

I know that we IT lot live on a different planet to the rest of the world (or so we are often told), but I'm really trying to find the real recession out there at the mo'.
Take airlines for example. I've been doing far too much travelling for my own good over the past few months,...
How To Beat The Snow: Brussels To Andorra In 30 Milliseconds

London to Brussels to Andorra in under 30ms - not bad eh?
Even the Bugatti Veyron can't achieve that (though with permanent four-wheel drive you'd think it would be ideal for British winter conditions, yet you barely ever see one, strange!) but... Vidyo can.
I first saw these...
Mobile World Congress? Let’s Start With Netevents…

So - MWC 2010 is currently on in Barcelona, but I was actually down there last week at Netevents - www.netevents.org - speaking on a couple of Cloud Computing panels.
The Cloud then - hype or reality? Definitely the latter. Yes, there is nothing brand new here - mainframe time-sharing...
Is No News Really Good News?

It's the middle of January now and, since snow and tragic earthquakes do not qualify as mainstream networking news, I've been patiently waiting for some news to appear in the networking world so that I can blog about it and, well, none has.
The closest we've come was with the GreenTouch...
No I’m Not Dead Honest, Just Suffering From Temporary Death By Travel…

For anyone else who travels as much as I seem to at the moment, you have my deepest sympathies.
Finally back "home" after over six weeks on the road, almost entirely in England. Well, at least I did catch the English "summer" now relocated to September (except it always has been the...
Bye Bye Nortel – Bye Bye Bay – Bye Bye Avaya? Bye Bye Vista!

So it looks like the Enterprise networking division of Nortel is going to Avaya after all.
Shame, 'cos I really liked the idea of it being bought out and Bay Networks being reinvented - from an original idea by (ex-ProCurve) John McHugh, who took over the ailing (been waiting years to...
And Now Save Money On Your Office Calls…

From the man who roams the length and breadth of Europe - well certain parts of Andorra, France and the UK - searching for networking products with instant ROI...
The latest is from a UK start-up called Voipex - www.voip-x.co.uk - which has developed a VoIP appliance range with some...