Plug pulled on French pre-curser to the Internet
A couple of months back Britains were saying a little tearful nostalgic goodbye to Ceefax and now the French are doing so similarly to another cute, pre- internet age innovation, rendered dated by the ubiquity of the world wide web.
The French Minitel system was essentially a very basic computer that allowed users to access text-based data over phone lines....
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Euro Football leads to increase in network traffic
As expected, Monday nights Euro 2012 football match between England and France led to a significant traffic surge across our network.
From 5pm onwards we generally see bandwidth on our graphing take a steady downward trajectory, instead we witnessed a steep increase at 5 pm followed by an even sharper decline at 7 pm when the game finished.
This is...
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VoIP is on the up
Recent research conducted by Point Tropic has revealed that global VoIP subscriptions shot up 15% during the last financial quarter. In the UK, VoIP subscription figures now stand just shy of the 3 million mark (statistics exclude Skype), placing us 10th on the list of highest subscribers. The US sit top of this list with 22 million VoIP subscriptions, but it’s...
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