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The Simwood blog.

Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.

Simwood Partner Update

By Simon Woodhead We’ve made loads of changes to the Sipcentric platform over recent months but, frankly, have been pretty poor at telling you about…

The future of Simwood

By Simon Woodhead When I founded this business nearly 25 years ago, it was the world’s first global gateway between the Internet and mobile phones –…

Welcome to our new CMO

By Simon Woodhead I’m delighted to welcome Claire Brown to the Simwood family. She joins as Chief Marketing Officer. Claire has 12+ year’s industry e…

Hello California

By Simon Woodhead As you know we’ve been quietly building Simwood Inc in the USA for the last few years. We’re a CLEC in 20-odd States now which is i…

STIR/SHAKEN live

By Simon Woodhead You’re hopefully aware that STIR/SHAKEN is coming in the USA and where we stand with it. See “we’re 1%ers” if not. You’ll have also…

Thanks for an interesting year!

By Simon Woodhead So here we are – Christmas 2020 – and the world looks very different to last year, although that only seems like yesterday. First a…

Christmas & New Year 2020 Porting Desk

By Bruce Clark Just like last year, Simwood’s porting desk will remain open and operational throughout the festive period, with the exception of the…

STIR/SHAKEN – things you need to know and do

By Simon Woodhead You’re hopefully aware that STIR/SHAKEN is coming in the USA and where we stand with it. See we’re 1%ers if not. As it stands, the…

Early Access: Simwood FTTP

By Simon Woodhead We’ve long offered ethernet services and internet access, generally at the higher end of the speed range (1Gb or nowadays 10Gb) and…

How can we make porting easier?

by Bruce Clark As many of you are likely aware, the whole UK porting process is somewhat flawed in many areas. Whilst a large volume of the issues ar…

SimCron2: Sandro Gauci talks security

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USA reductions

By Simon Woodhead Following the progress of Simwood Inc, we’ve had a number of our UK customers asking whether they can access services through their…