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NIS 2 – Cybersecurity-related legislation in 2024
Now that 2024 is about to end, let’s have a look at this year’s cybersecurity highlights. Changes in legislation like NIS 2 (both in countries and supranational bodies, like the EU) probably rank amongst the most important. All of these changes in legislation have been spurred by global cyber threats that can undermine a country’s democracy and financial stability....
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Final step of convergence: ALL IP
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...
Wireless LAN – correctly installed in companies
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...
Connecting branches via VPN
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...
EUTC Annual Conference
Together with some Teldat colleagues I recently attended the annual conference of EUTC (European Utilities Telecom Council), which brought together some of the main actors in the development of the Electric Grid, not only from Europe, but from all over the world. The...
Few would say that Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire
And although only a few would say so, it is. The facts says that Oxford University was founded in the early XII century, and the Mexicans founded Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire in the early XIV century. The perception of time is one of the most...
Wi-Fi services: an added value for customers
Wi-Fi has been one of the technologies that has increased most in the last years, especially due to the large spread of mobile devices. From laptop PC’s to tablets or smart phones, wi-fi is being used by companies internally to improve their work processes, but also...
Convergence: Integral solutions for routers and professional telephony
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...
LTE, new Connectivity Scenarios for businesses
In 2000 the GPRS technology was introduced. It offered the true possibility of transmitting data through 2G cellular networks, by adapting a circuit-switched network, designed to transmit voice, to a packet-based network. Almost a decade and a half ago, the common...
In the eye of the storm
Many of you will probably have heard of a new film that is currently being shown now called "The eye of the storm", which relates the story of a small town hit by enormous storms one after another including tornadoes and hurricanes. For those of us that may think...
Wireless LAN Controller in the Private Cloud
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...
Possibilities of the Smart Grid
Nowadays the whole electric grid is rapidly changing worldwide. Generation quickly becomes distributed through the use of new renewable energy sources (primarily wind and solar based). Consumption also takes new forms, as users develop new needs through the use of...
Can 4G/LTE become a main line connection?
Perhaps this question has to be clarified somewhat. Indeed, slower and more mature cellular lines 2G and 3G lines are already main line connections in certain scenarios, especially in those segments which are not so dependent on large bandwidth, but at the same time...
