Delivering modest amounts of electricity along the network cable will solve some problems very neatly. Moreover, the mess of power distribution on the average desk is a problem that has only been getting worse.
The telecoms landscape has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s. The main driver for enterprises to move to IP is the desire to reduce cost through convergence,” says Duncan Black, director of corporate networking strategies, Cable & Wireless.
So how is this landscape changing? Sending a message down a fixed network cable, the bandwidth available is known (approximately) as well as that the message will almost certainly get there. However, Quocirca believes that the sum total of these...
Network provisioning costs have also been halved at our new Stockton site as we only need one set of wiring and one CAT 5 point per desk rather than two sets of wiring and separate points for voice and data.
If processes are improved and the calls to the service desk drop off, then the organisation's energy can be directed away from firefighting to enabling the business in new ways and, ultimately, increasing profitability.
C is for Cable & Wireless The UK's business efficiency is being threatened by relatively slow broadband speeds, according to a report by the Communications Management Association. Back in April last year, we warned there was a limited window of...