On Monday sees our team (thirteen of us) complete a 10 KM run in preparation for Tough Mudder being held in Kettering in May. Our team, Bandwidth Bandits, have been training for a good few months now but this is the first big exercise all together in preparation for the event. Distances will quickly grow up to 20 KM before the event and lots of other training to make sure we can manage all the...

IPTV first trailed in 1994, but despite the proliferation of broadband across the UK in the ensuing years, its market penetration has been minimal up till now. That’s not to say that home users aren’t using the internet for TV, on-demand streaming services such as iPlayer and SkyGo are testament to the fact they are. However, these services are what you might describe as hybrid IPTV, given they...

169 days to go Due to preparations for the Olympics this summer, Transport for London (TfL) are putting in place an embargo on all planned street work starting on 1st March 2012 that will prevent any road works on the key parts of the London Olympic Route Network (ORN). Restrictions will continue to affect us until they are fully lifted on 30th September. However, it is worth noting that beyond...

This week saw LG launch its new SMART fridge at the Consumer Electronics Show. While ‘white goods’ aren’t normally on my radar, the new LG SMART fridge has caught my eye. Not only does it put connectivity to a very clever use , it also quite simply offers an ingenuous solution to a very common problem. The SMART fridge has a large LCD touch-screen and camera, as well as an internet connection...

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A technology report by Accenture, based on television viewing and purchasing habits, has highlighted some interesting figures - emphasising the shift towards Internet based television streaming. Discussion of the swing towards ‘on demand’ television is by no means a new topic, but the speed of this change will come as a shock to many television makers and broadcasters. The report shows that the...

We’ve just announced the largest publicly available 1Gb/s Fibre to the home infrastructure in the UK, a joint initiative between Fluidata and Independent Fibre Networks Limited (IFNL), which is part of the Inexus Group of Companies. IFNL’s infrastructure connects into Fluidata’s wholly-owned national network, which means that we can deliver superfast broadband via a choice of more than 40 ISPs to...

2011’s been an exciting year for Fluidata with the launch of new services such as 3G backup, the new dawn of IPv6 and the announcement of our initiative to help solve the UK’s rural broadband problems. In the wider technical community it’s also been eventful time. Social networking continued to rise in popularity and significance. It’s power to help mobilise the revolutionary fervour during the...

The London Olympics 2012 is the next most exciting event since Common Wealth 2002. The games will open on 27 th July at the Olympic parks and Village in Strafford and will run until the closing ceremony on 12 th August. There will then be a two week transition period before the Paralympics Games open on 29 th August running for 11 days. Over 10.8 million tickets have been allocated for the 27 day...

We are the proud owners of the Cisco Express Managed Services status following a successful audit of our Cisco capabilities. This status, unique at the moment in the UK, recognises our ability to look after our customers’ needs 24/7 from our own dedicated Network Operations Centre ( NOC). After being a Cisco partner for a number of years we felt the standard channel did not recognise the value...