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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.

Congratulations to Adepteo!

We’d like to extend congratulations to Simwood customer Adepteo who following extensive testing have been short-listed as a finalist in the ISPA Awar…

Tjardick van der Kraan appointed Director of Simwood

I’m really excited to announce that Tjardick van der Kraan has been appointed a Director of Simwood eSMS Limited. Tjardick has been involved with the…

Customer Portal Enhancement

We have today released a new version of our customer portal and think you’ll like the changes. Key new features are: Clear reconciliation of your pre…

Network Upgrade

We have some very exciting news to share with you: We have recently signed contracts and placed orders for a substantial overhaul of the Simwood core…

IPv4 Exhaustion

Today the world officially ran out of IP addresses, a fact you may hear lots about on the news over coming days. RIPE, of which Simwood is a member a…

Simwood Customer Portal

We’re delighted to announce a beta version of our new customer portal. When we launched our feedback site last year, one of the first requests on the…

Intelligent Managed Services

Apologies to those interested only in our Voice services but I’d like to take a few moments to introduce a side to Simwood which many are possibly un…

Network / Codec Changes

Further to our HD Voice announcement last week, please be advised of forthcoming changes to the Simwood Network. SIP Termination We have substantiall…

HD Voice

We are delighted to announce support for High Definition (HD) Voice on the Simwood network. For those unaware, HD Voice like HD TV offers substantial…

Sri Lanka Direct Route

We are delighted to announce a new route directly into Sri Lanka Telecom. We can now offer termination to all Sri Lanka destinations with full CLI an…

Wholesale Fax Service

A while back we announced an upgrade to our long offered fax-to-email service, notably enhancements to the e-mail side of it and the ability to inste…

Network upgrade

In late 2009 we added a further data centre to our network, in Manchester, UK. This email is notice of the work we will soon be doing to bring that f…