Fluidata are delighted to report that on Saturday a crack team of 13 FD employees (known collectively as the ‘ Bandwidth Bandits’) participated and successfully completed ‘ Tough Mudder’ – a gruelling 12 mile endurance obstacle course designed by British Special Forces. The event took place in Kettering, within the beautiful grounds of Broughton Manor – the 11,200 acre estate of The Duke of...

Fluidata Olympic Countdown: 78 Days to goCyber war - a topic of much public discussion over recent months and now we hear a potential threat to the upcoming Olympics. The Olympics provides an ideal target for foreign intelligence agencies to make high profile disruptions during a time when the global focus is upon London. Minister Francis Maude has highlighted this threat from cyberspace as a...

In a few days thirteen brave Fluidata souls, aka the Bandwidth Bandits, will take on the might of the Tough Mudder course near Kettering. Our training mantra has been that of the Romans, ‘train hard, fight easy’ and as you can see in our branded gear we look like a formidable force. Training has been relentless for the past few months with regular runs around London and special training sessions...

On the 18th of April hackers and professionals alike took up the inguinal Fluidata Golf Day challenge. A day full of hazards with the gentle breeze and light rain not deterring any of the welcome golfers/customers. It took place at The Gove Golf Club near Watford. The Grove has played host to the likes of Ian Poulter and Tiger Woods, it can now lay claim to hosting some of the finest golfers in...

With much fanfare we are pleased to announce the launch of our company magazine, PULSE. We have been busy over the past few months putting together some interesting and informative features on connectivity in the UK and the impact on business. This edition includes a special report on Rural Broadband and connecting the final third, a practical guide to IPv6, preparing the internet for the...

Olympic Countdown 95 days to go Resilience and capacity planning are at the heart of our core network design. Preparing for the 2012 Olympics has been a relatively straightforward process for us because the network has been inherently built to cope with huge volumes of traffic and failure scenarios. In many ways 2012 is a simple extension of the good practises we already employ to serve our...

Fluidata Olympic Countdown - 105 days to go. The Olympics is affecting business’s up and down the county in myriad ways; from those directly working on the planning and logistics, to London retailers likely to capitalise on increase in footfall. As a London based business, and a telecommunications provider, Fluidata are also witnessing many consequences of the games imminent arrival to the...

Dr Peter Cochrane, BT’s former Chief Technology Officer (CTO), last week claimed that the battery backup’s in the new BT fibre cabinets could be a target to for thieves “ Once the local bandits have recognised that there is a car battery in the bottom, you can bet you’re your bottom dollar that a crowbar will be out and the battery will keep disappearing”. The kind of public statement that you...

The coalition are considering passing legislation that would enable GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters) free reign to monitor every e-mail, text, phone call made and website accessed by the public at large. As well as being made to store all electronic communication data of all customers for 1 year, ISP’s would be required to install boxes across their core networks, which would allow...

Amid the furore surrounding Google’s new privacy polices – it appears one thing has remained constant; Google will be implementing these changes despite warnings from the EU that the new polices may be considered illegal in an EU Court of Law. It was introduced last week, despite calls from a group of European regulators to hold off allowing further investigation. Essentially the new policy,...