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If you’re reading this you should know IPv4 is exhausted, and IPv6 has been in service amongst forward thinking ISPs for some time. Where properly im…
Last year details emerged of the draft Communications Data bill, described early on by a Minister as: The proposals being considered would simply upd…
An opinion post by Simon Woodhead, Managing Director. It should come as little surprise to anyone to hear that this week saw a rather large DDoS agai…
In February OFCOM published a consultation on its proposals for change in the fixed-line marketplace. Whilst neither Simwood nor our customers operat…
In common with all UK CPs/Network Operators we recently received a joint letter from OFCOM and the ICO on the behaviour they expect in respect of: Un…
Last year we posted an article urging people to check their DNS settings in order to ensure they were getting the full benefit of CDNs by delivering…
We now have a redundant 10Gb/s ring around the major data-centres in Manchester. This is our own wave passing through all the major data-centres in a…
VUC, or Voip Users Conference, is an excellent weekly conference call for industry professionals and enthusiasts. We’ve been been lucky enough to be…
VUC, or Voip Users Conference, is an excellent weekly conference call for industry professionals and enthusiasts. We’ve been been lucky enough to be…
In our recent QoS white-paper, we explained how most IP Transit was ‘best-efforts’, giving no priority to voice and how congestion is routine (and co…
Introduction QoS, or Quality of Service, is a term used in VoIP circles but often misunderstood and as a consequence rarely implemented, despite the…
Happy New Year! 2013 is going to be a great year. I hope you enjoyed the break although I know many of you have been using the down-time to do some r…