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Playing with the grown ups…

by James Hickman. 25-04-13. So, BT is suing Google, and Google is suing BT. The issue – unsurprisingly – is patents. Reading the story makes me remember how lucky we are in the world of networks that a lot of what we use was given to us for free....read more

Network security: new threats, new opportunities.

by Tom O'Hagan. 03-04-2013. The problem of network security is once more making the headlines. The news has been awash of late with horror stories around the latest security threats:  children coding malware, unblockable new virus threats, even of gangs in China using social media as a means...read more

Time to join the IPv6 party!

by James Hickman. 28.02.2013. This year marks the 20^th anniversary of the deadline posted in RFC801. Yes I know. That intro grabbed you didn't it. Twenty-odd years ago, you may be surprised to learn that the internet was not the cohesive organism it is today. Instead, it was formed...read more

Why no.1 isn’t always the best.

by Tom O'Hagan. 25-02-13. The role of the datacentre is evolving. Not so long ago it was simply a cost effective storage measure, held at arm’s length from the main company infrastructure; now, as businesses take greater advantage of cloud capabilities, the datacentre has become a central hub...read more

Rich on… Q-in-Q

by Rich Adam. 25-02-13. Much has been said of Q-in-Q or stacked VLANs... no wait, that's wrong,  I mean not much has been said and frankly that is because not many people outside network engineering have a use for it. However, the benefits for customers are plentiful (well,...read more

New Year Resolutions

by James Hickman. 31-01-13. So hello 2013! If you've already managed to clear through the fog of the festive season then, like me, you are probably thinking hard about how to be better this year. Maybe you'll finally chuck out all that ISDN. Maybe you will even get...read more

Carry on, regardless…

by Tom O'Hagan. 31-01-13. Convergence has been a buzz word for so long that you could be forgiven for assuming that the idea must have lost some of its fizz.  After all, the idea of running voice and data over the same network came about at the same...read more

Rich on… QoS

by Rich Adam. 10-01-13. It seems to be a tradition here at Virtual1 that most blogs start with a very tenuous analogy to introduce the subject, a tradition I suspect perpetuated by our erstwhile CTO. Well, all I can promise is that I’ll do my very best not...read more