While under my desk at home plugging in another new piece of technology, I got thinking as to how much my home now relies on my home broadband router. Considering it is…
PureFluid gets an upgrade
Our aggregation platform which bonds multiple internet lines together (including different products and carriers) has had a mild facelift with the launch of newer Cisco hardware. Having standardised the platform on Cisco…
The next generation of entrepreneur
Last week I spent an enjoyable two days at my old secondary school helping the Lower Sixth with a business course that the school was running. As part of this they needed…
How to drift
I spent an enjoyable day yesterday at Silverstone with Caterham learning how to drift. For those of you without petrol coursing through your veins basically controlled skidding. The idea is to enable…
Email on the move
Until recently I was always very proud of the fact that I never setup my iPhone to receive email and so the only time I responded to email was when I was…
World IPv6 Day
In preparation for tomorrow, the Telegraph has done a piece on the World IPv6 Day, which I assume will make it into the broadsheet (you’ll notice the little comment at the bottom).…
Is China a bubble waiting to burst?
After a recent trip to China I was awed by the development going on in the country. I have for years read about its massive growth, investment opportunities and its ability to…
Banks take their piece
I read an interesting piece by Business Insider on the recent IPO of LinkedIn and how their founders and shareholders have been screwed by their underwriters. Bank of America and Morgan Stanley…
Sort of like owning a horse
Well the time has come for me to firm up my specification for the Atom which will hopefully be with me before the end of the summer… It went quicker than I…
Playroom Mk2
Nearly exactly a year after we signed the lease for our new office, our new demo suite is now ready. I have spoken before about our old playroom in our previous office…
Publicity stunt or new network?
There are some interesting developments in the world of Rural Broadband with Fujitsu this week announcing its new consortium with Virgin, TalkTalk and Cisco to deploy rural fibre to the premises (FTTP).…
The two speed internet
I have been interested to read on the subject of net neutrality (ie that all internet traffic is treated equal) and how the belief is that a two tier internet will be…
A nice place to work
Last year we were nominated for the London Health Commission awards, held at City Hall. I had forgotten all about this until they sent through a copy of the film they had…
Rural connectivity is used as a lever
There was an interesting turn of events this week with an open letter being sent to Ed Vaizey, Communications Minister, from a number of infrastructure carriers demanding for lower costs on BT’s…
It must be able to go faster
I recently moved home, near to Stratford upon Avon, and one of the hopes I had was faster broadband. It wasn’t the only reason for moving of course… After years of doing…