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…
BT outages demonstrate the need for resilience
BT has suffered a number of outages over the past week across the country which has left many without internet connectivity for days on end. It even at one point, last weekend,…
What to expect in the next decade?
As 2010 rolls in, I am reminded that a decade is a significant period of time and a good one to reflect on, especially in the world of IT and Telecoms. What…
When the best gets better
We have been selling our BURST service for a number of years offering clients up to 20 Mb/s downstream and 2.6 Mb/s upstream across the UK utilising Telefonica’s ADSL2+ Annex-M network. Our…
EFM versus PureFluid
Lots of talk in the press recently on EFM (Ethernet First Mile) and thought it was worth a comment. What gets me is the fact that so many businesses in our industry…
Which exchange? I’ll have two please.
It beggars belief but for those of you who have read my previous pieces on the aggregation services Fluidata offers in the form of PureFluid and Advance, it turns out that other…
Video is finally here
The video-presence suite is now up and running. There are a few final adjustments to make in terms of optimising connectivity and aspect ratios of the cameras but for a first attempt…
How do you backup 99.99% uptime?
One concern I have had with the telecoms industry while running Fluidata has been around Service Level Agreements (SLA). Business customers demand that services stay up and provide their business with connectivity…
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…