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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.

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…

QoS for VoIP

Introduction QoS, or Quality of Service, is a term used in VoIP circles but often misunderstood and as a consequence rarely implemented, despite the…

New Year news

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…

New SIP stack

Our new SIP infrastructure is available for your traffic in our Slough site. Manchester will be available shortly and London will follow. The feature…

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

And compliments of the season for those of you just looking forward to a rest!! It’s the time of year to say a big ‘thank you’ for your support over…

Numbering rate changes

Last week we asked for your feedback on our services and were really pleased to hear from so many of you. If you haven’t yet responded, click the but…

Storm Sandy

There is a possibility of disruption to the Internet and voice traffic later today. Simwood is unaffected by this directly but we want to let custome…

Another Internet Pioneer Joins Simwood

We’re delighted to announce that Grahame Davies has joined Simwood as a non-executive advisor. Grahame was a pioneer of Internet access in the UK whe…