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Who's been mis-selling domestic broadband connections?
Up to 70% of SMEs in the UK are still relying on domestic rather than business grade broadband connections, and collectively could be wasting up to £357m a month. These claims were made by a team of researchers working on behalf of recently-reb... Opinion
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Jail for conman in latest Cisco parts fraud
How easy is it to scam Cisco?A walk in the park, apparently. Long-time readers of Network Noise may remember the case of an Arizona restaurateur, who was jailed last October after bilking Cisco out of $20m worth of fraudulent orders by submitting fak... Opinion
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Resellers, get into voice coaching, says Plantronics
On Tuesday Network Noise sat down at UC Expo for an interesting chat with Plantronics EMEA vice president and managing director Philip Vanhoutte. As I'm sure you don't need telling, Plantronics made its name developing peripheral headset, microphone ... Opinion
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Comtek takes green network crusade to parliament
Comms and networking repair services house Comtek, which you may recall we wrote about last November, has taken its campaign for a more environmentally sound approach to the nuts and bolts of the network to the Houses of Parliament. Last week the nor... Opinion
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Is Alcatel-Lucent up for sale?
Could Huawei be lining up a bid for Franco-American network vendor Alcatel-Lucent? It could happen, if reports in the business press are to be believed. An 11%surge in Alcatel-Lucent's share price on Thursday, taking the company's stock to its highes... Opinion
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Three new awards for networkers, so get your ACEs entries in!
If you hang around here long enough, you might hear me pass some remark about how the network has become the true heart of the IT industry. It's a bit of a cliche, but I believe it to be true. But this year we plan on proving it. This morning we lau... Opinion
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Blimey Russia's got 4G! Is Britain in the slow lane while Yota's data network is Putin on the Bitz?
Russian mobile broadband company Yota has clinched a deal with the country's main network operators that makes it the 4G network provider for the Russian telecoms market. It will roll-out an LTE network to cover 180 cities with a total population of ... Opinion
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World's least appetising headline event
Anyone up for this? Opinion
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Cisco tweaks partner accreditations in New Orleans
Changes to Cisco's channel are once again afoot at the vendor's annual Partner Summit... During yesterday's keynote sessions, the vendor's global channel boss Edison Peres lifted the lid on a new cloud partner programme, but also slipped out some det... Opinion
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Boffins shift IT dimensions with photonic quantum computing
This is a representation of a circuit for quantum information processing that makes use of multiport MMI devices. These circuits will bemore compact and robust to fabrication tolerances compared to the current2x2 ports devices. Boffins atthe Uni... Opinion