With talk of Microsoft and Google investing in new datacentres for hosted applications I am concerned with necessary power upgrade that is required for the national grid. With datacentres consuming apparently more…
Customer Feedback
Nice to see customer’s discussing your company’s offering online – positive and negative comments. http://www.josephjburns.com/2008/04/30/fluidata-the-cheaper-alternative-to-leased-lines As with all services customer feedback is so important as they use the service day in, day…
Reasons for Technical Support
Some of you may be interested to read our latest statistics on our support at Fluidata. Being a business only ISP it is quite interesting reading, especially as I would have assumed…
SMBs ready for hosted applications?
Interesting article one of my colleagues came across the other day discusses whether SMB’s are ready for hosted applications. From what I can make out Easynet’s take is that quite a few…
Business look to bonding
The industry seems to be waking up to the idea of bonding as the demand for higher upload and download speeds increases. Fluidata has been doing this for the past few years…
Working from home
Food for thought: http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/10/28/right-tools-making-telecommuting-possible/
Cisco 7604
Fluidata to help keep the internet ticking over. Well this is a picture of one of our new Cisco 7604 routers which will be brought online in the next few weeks across…
Are businesses mad?
This week sees the launch of BT’s new promotion for businesses. Sign up today and get a free mobile dongle so you can browse the internet when not in the office! It…
Less is definitely more
One of our most interesting products to be developed this year at Fluidata has been the VOX 2.0 service. For the past 18-months Fluidata has been using the Telefonica O2 network for…
Fibre to the home
In one of my previous comments I talk about the report the BSG recently published regarding fibre to the home will cost £28bn. Well to follow up the report the BSG held…
Fibre will cost £28.8 bn
Interesting report out from Broadband Stakeholder Group which Fluidata has been a member of since 2004. Basically putting into context the investment BT has earmarked for fibre deployment. BT has said they…
ISPs struggle with ADSL2+ rollout
News from the trenches is that BT wholesale (who supply ISPs in the UK with DSL access) has delayed activation for 440 exchanges across the country to be upgraded to ADSL2+ (basically…
Reactive or Proactive?
It has bothered me for a while that the telecoms industry on the whole is reactive rather than being proactive. This is true for product development, support and network investment and it…
A fibre city?
I don’t want this blog to become a rant against BT but to back up my opinion further down the page as to why BT wont deliver on the fibre network you…
Hosted VoIP – why is not EVERY business using it?
And another one! The site actually has some good other news items as well, I hadn’t heard of them before but great place for me to put the more in-depth comment pieces.