Monthly Archives: January 2012

Cloud hosting an entire telecoms network

Posted on January 30, 2012 by William Webb

Telecoms networks are generally thought of as big machines. Although the days of mechanical switches are long gone, cellular networks still tend to consist of large switching centres, often in dedicated buildings with back-up power supplies and high levels of … Continue reading →

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Can white space deliver reliable connections?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by William Webb

The orthodoxy of spectrum usage has been that networks are built using licensed spectrum while local transmissions use unlicensed spectrum. Nobody, it was presumed, would spend billions of dollars to build a network in spectrum that they did not fully … Continue reading →

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Weightless and the Innovator’s Dilemma

Posted on January 13, 2012 by William Webb

Clayton Christensen’s book on the Innovator’s Dilemma has become a classic. It discusses how difficult it is for an established company to react to the rise of a technology that is apparently worse than the one they are currently profiting … Continue reading →

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Can M2M make Wi-Fi better?

Posted on January 6, 2012 by William Webb

Wi-Fi is a great local area networking technology. It’s only real problem is logging on. For those on the move using laptops it often requires going to a website and typing in a password. And even in the home first-time … Continue reading →

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Does your machine need a faster connection?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by William Webb

When we think about being connected one of the key metrics is the speed of connection. We want home broadband to be at least 2Mbits/s, ideally more like 10Mbits/s and we just want mobile connections to be faster because whatever … Continue reading →

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