Straight-talking, in writing

The Simwood blog.

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

Our talk at LINX98 – SDN without the BS

We’re hiring!

Now we’re in our new home in Bristol we’re looking to fill some vacancies and grow our team, with more awesome people. We now have vacancies for: Sen…

We’ve Moved!

Thanks to the amazing work of our team, our move from Southampton to Bristol on Friday went incredibly smoothly and we’re now ensconced in our new bu…

We’re now a CLEC in the USA!

By Simon Woodhead TL;DR We’re now registered as an infrastructure-based CLEC in the United States. This gives us many powers in law to build out infr…

Operations Desk – Friday 1st September

As we announced last month, Simwood is moving to Bristol. Whilst there’s still a lot of work ahead with our new look offices taking shape over the ne…

Unbundled Tariff Numbers

Non-Geographic Numbers The UK National Numbering Plan has a huge range of numbers and most of our customers’ numbering requirements are met by our 01…

Cluecon 2017 – Anycast in SIP Architectures

As you know we presented at Cluecon in Chicago last week. Below is our very low quality bootleg recording! We’ll replace it with the high quality off…

ClueCon 2017

We’re delighted to again be sponsoring and speaking at ClueCon this year, and it looks to be the biggest yet! We’ll also be exhibiting for the first…

Re-monopolisation through the Secret Club

By Simon Woodhead What follows is a matter of opinion based on personal experience and belief, shared for the betterment of a fair and transparent ma…

Our new website!

We hope you like it: https://simwood.com

We’re moving to Bristol!

On Friday we completed on our lovely new building in Bristol. This has been over a year in the making so we’re quite excited. It is fair to say our l…

Hello New York! And San Jose!

We’re delighted to welcome New York and San Jose to the network! Both sites are live on the network and we’ll be spinning up hosts running our new st…