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Simon Woodhead

BT claim they own SIP

By Simon Woodhead Shortly after midnight last night my inbox pinged with a concerned email from a diligent customer. They’d seen news on The Register…

New USD / EUR bank accounts

Please note we have changed banks for our currency accounts following the acquisition of Travelex by Western Union. We would ask that customers switc…

Is Mandatory IPv6 the new Snoopers Charter?

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…

Communications Data Bill (a.k.a. Snoopers Charter)

Last year details emerged of the draft Communications Data bill, described early on by a Minister as: The proposals being considered would simply upd…

The week the game changed

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…

OFCOM review of the fixed narrowband services markets

In February OFCOM published a consultation on its proposals for change in the fixed-line marketplace. Whilst neither Simwood nor our customers operat…

Nuisance Call Guidelines

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…

The bandwidth is (pretty much) irrelevant

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…

Manchester 10Gb Metro-LAN

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…

Join Us on VUC

VUC, or Voip Users Conference, is an excellent weekly conference call for industry professionals and enthusiasts. We’ve been been lucky enough to be…

Our VUC Interview

VUC, or Voip Users Conference, is an excellent weekly conference call for industry professionals and enthusiasts. We’ve been been lucky enough to be…

The IP Network for Voice Business

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…

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