The increasing convergence of voice and data has been going on for many years. The shift towards Voice over IP (VoIP) has already started! In some countries such as Germany, there has been going on a discussion about when to decommission the public ISDN networks. The end of ISDN and analog telephone connections is approaching. In Germany all current landline connections will be shifted to IP...
By now wireless LAN is not just a "nice to have“ gimmick anymore but an essential part of IT in companies. Depending on the industry or sector, the availability of a wireless LAN network is now often integrated as part of the workflows, besides the usual office applications. Availability and security of the wireless LAN for these applications rank among business-critical parts of the...
Smooth-running backup solution via LTE The requirements for connecting branches or company subsidiaries are not only a technical issue but are also substantially driven by costs. In order to keep up in a global environment chain, operators have to keep their costs low and ensure lean, fast processes. This means basically that branches and subsidiaries have to be managed and administrated...
The increasing interconnectedness between the fields of information technology and telecommunications is not new. We all know that these two worlds have grown more and more together and still do (keyword: convergence). On the one hand business communication requires professional telephony and professional routing, but on the other hand, no company, especially in the SME segment, wants to buy...
Whether it’s the residential sector or comprehensive installations within offices, to highly sophisticated applications and even beyond, by now wireless networks can be found in almost all market segments. Wireless LAN has become far more than a mere network to supply wireless Internet connectivity. The technology is now part of a business processes. Due to the large variety of applications, it...
Our daily data traffic on the Internet has reached dimensions which can hardly be put into numbers. For example, in June 2014, an average of 1.7 Tbit/s of data has been transmitted at the German DE-CIX (the largest Internet exchange point worldwide, situated in Frankfurt). Indeed, numerous transactions related to critical applications such as financial or personal data are conducted. Whether...
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