In the first of a series of guest blogs coming to you from the brains of our wickedly talented technical support team, networking knight and all-around office nice guy Mike Arscott shares his top 4 support tips that no Fluidata customer should be leaving the showroom without. So without further ado or unnecessary embellishment (unless you consider this sentence such a thing), let's hand the...

Technology and data are so firmly embedded into the heart of every business that the problem of how and where to store data has led to a sharp rise in the use of cloud storage for business. Most of us will use services such as Dropbox or Google Apps in our private lives, and in business Amazon Web Services (AWS) is so ubiquitous that it’s almost a household name. Here, we outline the biggest...

Those of us that work in the communications industry are all too familiar with Ofcom and its role in shaping communications in the UK. However, businesses outside of our industry and individuals really don’t know much about the value it can bring to them. Many simply see the regulatory body as someone to complain to when they are having issues with their broadband. But is there a place for it to...

Please note that our network freeze will be in place from 6 pm on 16/12/2015 and will last until 10 am on 04/01/2016. During this time, any change requests that involve the Fluidata core network will be postponed until the resumption of normal services on 04/01/2016. This is to ensure existing services are not affected by a lack of resource by the network operator. Additionally, our seasonal...

Integrated Services of Digital Network (ISDN) was the standard way of transmitting data (including voice and video) for many years. By using this system, people could get a better quality connection via traditional copper phone lines. But what purpose does ISDN have in a world driven by high-speed internet? Telephones used to be a standard feature in most homes in the developed world, but now...

These days, cloud computing has become ubiquitous, with many businesses using some form of cloud computing technology to run day-to-day operations. Computing started with the idea of one person operating one machine and only evolved into the concept of multiple users and virtualisation when data scientists needed to find a way for more than one person to use the same computer at the same time....

In the technology industry, we all love an acronym but do you know your SIP from your ISDN and which is best for your business? According to Wikipedia, Integrated Services for Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network. ISDN...

Most people associate the beginning of Voice over IP (VoIP) with the introduction of mass-market services in late 2003 / early 2004. In reality, VoIP began a long time before that in the 1970s. Back then it had another acronym, NVP, which stood for Network Voice Protocol. It was first developed in 1973 by Danny Cohen and others in order to carry real time voice over Arpanet, the precursor to...

In many ways, the healthcare industry is leading the way when it comes to innovative uses of technology. You only need to look at the applications of 3D printing to know that. But in other ways the industry has some catching up to do. This is especially true of the NHS, as it is held back with legacy systems and ever-reducing budgets to update its IT. For example, it is only in recent years that...

We looked earlier in the week at the growth of Internet telephony. It is not hard to understand why so many businesses have taken it up given the cost savings involved. In the global economy in which we all now live and work, we have to be able to make international calls at a fraction of the cost they were five years ago. Internet telephony makes this possible. You would think that SMEs would...