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Somerville College, Oxford is deploying an Aerohive WLAN
solution across its campus. The pioneering College, founded in 1879, is the first in Oxford University to embark on a project to provide blanket wireless coverage - indoors and out - for staff and students. The WLAN, implemented by ICT
partner LAN3, serves to deliver the facilities expected by international businesses today, and support Somerville’s upwardly mobile student- base in their transition from education to professional career. In addition to enhancing the living
and working experience at the College, Somerville believes the wireless solution will be key to attracting the next generation of top-flight students and academics in an increasingly competitive and cost-conscious higher education sector. As an early adopter of Wi-Fi
technology seven years ago, Somerville recognised the need to re-assess its wireless connectivity in order to stay ahead of increased demand and advanced technology expectations from students.
having been independently verified as ‘Globally Carbon Neutral’ by international environmental specialists CAMCO. With many companies claiming to be
‘green’ but in reality cherry-picking only certain parts of their operations, Brand- Rex stated that it wanted its green credentials to be “whiter than white”. The company’s global carbon
footprint was calculated under the international ISO14064 standard and carbon neutrality was assessed by CAMCO under the new PA2060 standard to confirm the company’s operations as globally carbon neutral. Announcing the achievement, CEO
Paul Lines said, “At Brand-Rex we always believe that if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing better than the norm. In going for carbon neutrality we didn’t want to join in with marketing spin some companies are using to try to make them sound a lot more green than they actually are.
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Brand-Rex has now achieved Carbon Neutral Status,
comments about how Britain is under continuous attack from cyber criminals, Peter Regent, director of online authentication, Gemalto, offered his opinions: “The defence secretary’s comments about national security reaffirm the need for industry and enterprise to better equip users with a full range of tools to help prevent cyber attacks. “Cyber criminals are continually
evolving their attacks to bypass existing security approaches resulting in several high profile cases of data breach. Advanced persistent threats have proven to push past what has traditionally been considered good enough security. “There has been a shift in focus from
malware attacks to criminals exploiting what is now the weakest link - the username and password. “Dr Liam Fox is right; business and
industry must re-evaluate security controls to reduce fraud and protect intellectual property. Introducing extra layers of security to usernames and passwords to governments, businesses and every individual internet user will be a major step forward in cyber crime prevention.”
between its core data centre sites in Slough and Greenwich. By selecting Geo’s dedicated fibre, ITV now has a managed 10Gbps service on fibre that is capable of scaling up to terabit capacity, promising richer and more seamless content for viewers as the company enacts its Transformation Plan. Geo was selected through a
competitive tender process on the basis of its dedicated fibre offering, which enables ITV to scale up its bandwidth requirements as it grows its revenue streams. The nature of dedicated fibre, as opposed to industry-standard shared platforms, also guarantees ITV of a sub-2ms round trip between sites, a key requirement to meet their low latency goals. “ITV’s strategic priority is to drive
new revenue streams by exploiting our content across multiple free and pay platforms,” said Andrew Ioannou, ITV’s
ITV has selected Geo Networks to deploy a fibre optic network
In response to UK defence secretary Dr Liam Fox’s
Director of Strategy - Technology, Platforms and Business Delivery. “A robust network that eliminated single points of failure and reduced our business risk to its lowest possible level was critical to us. Geo’s fibre follows unique paths away from standard routes which guarantees diversity.” “Media companies are facing a tough
market today and need to deliver high bandwidth content using a range of channels to engage a more demanding audience. Dedicated fibre is critical to companies such as ITV with aggressive growth strategies, as it provides long term capacity for bandwidth-intense content without the need to compress and decompresss,” said Chris Smedley, Chief Executive at Geo. “Our fibre will provide ITV with the stable infrastructure required to realise its vision.”
London hotel group, will deploy HP Networking solutions to improve communications for staff and customers throughout the chain. Grange Hotels needed to provide
fast, reliable Wi-Fi communications and internet access for guests in every room of its 16 hotels, as well as for staff and visitors. In order to maintain its reputation for luxury and high levels of service, Grange Hotels has selected an HP wired and wireless network to deliver simple to use, uninterrupted access for all its users. HP E5406 and HP E2810
industry standards-based switches will integrate with products from other vendors to improve Grange Hotels’ network performance and uptime for uninterrupted service. HP MSM Wireless Access Points bring intelligence to the network edge and let users connect securely to the wireless LAN and roam, providing seamless Wi-Fi access anywhere. Grange Hotels will now be able
to use one network management system across all its sites, reducing management complexity and cost. The whole network is flexible and scalable; more switches can be added without increasing management complexity and expense.
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HP today announced that Grange Hotels, a premier independent
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