CONTENTS
FEATURE FIBRE OPTIC NETWORKS 8
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18 22 24
26 28 30
32 34 36
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48 50 52
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Clean Sweep Optical Fibre’s Migration to a Highly Demanding Technology Growing Pains Where Fibre is Heading in the Long Term
On the Rocks Change Management – Confronting the Erosion of Order Survival of the Fittest Which will Prevail in the Battle of Copper vs. Fibre?
FEATURE COPPER CABLING
In with the Old, In with the New Next Generation Technology and Copper What’s on the Wire? Surveying the Copper Structured Cabling Landscape Of Facelifts and Futures Rebranding to Meet the Market
FEATURE SECURITY
Speak of the Devil VoIP Phone Phreakers to Target Enterprises The Best Attack Mitigate Risk and Raise Your Network Security Bar Out-Sorcery How to Outsource with Minimum Pain
FEATURE TEST & MEASUREMENT
Looking for Trouble How to Save Money with Troubleshooting Devices Standard Procedure How to Prepare for Future Standards The Test of Time What the Future May Hold for the Testing Industry
FEATURE SWITCHES & ROUTERS
Instant Mesh HD Video Over Multiservice Mesh Networks Any Port in a Storm The Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator
CASE STUDY
Looking After Number One The Benefits of a Dedicated Fibre Network The World’s Your Oyster The IT Behind London’s Travelcard System A Cloud in Sight Computacenter Cloud Computing’s Data Centre
REGULAR SECTIONS Foreword
Industry News
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Better Business Marketing Matters Successful Brochure and Website Writing Better Business The Soft Shoulder Specialist Software Services Provision Product News Directory
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Volume II, Issue 1 2011
Crossed
Wires Will the Future be Fibre or Copper?
FEATURES Test & Measurement
FEATURES
Security Domain CASE STUDY
The IT Behind the Oyster Card
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