The Telefonica network which provides Fluidata with many of its flagship products such as BURST and Vox 2.0 is currently facing provisioning issues with a number of their exchanges. As many of you will be aware Fluidata is now operating the wholesale channel on this network, as a result of increased demand through the channel, coupled with the continued success of these products on the direct...

A survey recently showed that Scandinavian countries are ranked among the top ten countries in terms of the quality and reach of their networks. On October 16, Finland made Internet services a legal right when it announced that all citizens are legally entitled to a minimum internet connection of 1 Mb/s. This should be ready for July next year. The goal, however, is for 100 Mb/s lines to be...

Fluidata’s flagship datacentre has been awarded the much coveted UK Police Flagship ‘Secured by Design’ certification. The certification has the backing of The Home Office and recognises 3 Centro's focus on crime prevention at the design and the high standards of security it promotes overall. Features such as 3m security fences, blast proof windows, IRIS scanners and computer controlled motion...

The Internet has become an essential component of our working lives over the last 15 years. It’s hard to imagine communication without recourse to email, research without access to the web, even lunchtime without Facebook is becoming a distant memory. In recent years the internet has started to be harnessed for more wide ranging purposes; from file sharing and VPN access to phone calls, data, and...

In the UK, contention ratios have increasingly become a topic of conversation and interest for many in the IT industry. The term contention ratio refers to the maximum number of other users you could share your bandwidth at any one time. This is important especially for businesses as the more users you share your line with the more unstable and unreliable your line will be. Contention is normally...

With the wide availability of Annex-M technology on the O2 network, new opportunities should be opening up to wholesalers. With bandwidth hungry technologies such as remote backup, database replication and FTP, high upload is a key factor in delivering these services to business. However, reliability is also a key requirement, and for the first time businesses can feel confident in moving their...

Prior to my current post at Fluidata I worked for one of the UK’s leading environmental consultancies. Here I helped companies to assess and reduce their carbon emissions. Because of this I am often asked for advice on how to reduce a company’s carbon footprint and frequently the answer I give is to fully utilise our IT services. The fact of the matter is that we cannot continue to run successful...

In 2005 Ofcom negotiated a deal with BT to set up the Openreach local access division to offer services to other ISPs. LLU (local loop unbundling) allowed ISPs to install their own equipment in BT exchanges and gave network providers the opportunity to innovate and differentiate their product offerings and provide higher bandwidth services as well as improved service levels. Hence, over the...

I have recently been reading in magazines such as Computer Weekly about the importance of remote backup and disaster recovery (DR). According to a recent survey, one in three businesses does not undertake DR and remote backup as they believe it will significantly disrupt their revenue. What is more concerning is that should a disaster strike happen it could mean a loss of £4,300 per hour while...

Fluidata has recently embraced Video Conferencing technology by installing a life size, high definition video presence suite in our London office. The system, which of course runs over Fluidata connectivity lines, offers us the chance to conduct meetings with our various partners and direct clients across the country and beyond, quickly paying for itself in the process as we reduce time and...