Wi-Fi

With internet access increasingly seen as a human right, Wi-Fi continues to have an important role to play. Like LTE it is evolving, to better meet users' requirements and is moving towards being a managed service at the enterprise-level

News

View All

Delivery partners chosen for major UK police IT project

Deloitte and BT have been confirmed as suppliers for the UK police national enabling programmes (NEP), as well as the burgeoning police national management centre (NMC).

Deloitte has been selected as the ‘client delivery partner,’ providing a range of services to ...

Heathrow upgrades communications management

Heathrow has appointed airport technology specialist SITA to provide support to its communication network. This includes more than 12,000 telephones, 150,000 LAN connections, 1,900 radios and more than 3,500 WLAN access points across its campus.

According to Heathrow, ...

Cyber security survey: 65% of professionals expect major attack on critical infrastructure

65 per cent of respondents to Bat Hat Europe’s research report, Europe’s Cyber Cybersecurity Challenges believe that a major attack on critical infrastructure spanning multiple European countries will occur in the next two years, indicating that concern in this regard has not ...

CommScope to buy Arris for $7.4bn

CommScope, a communications infrastructure company, has agreed to buy Arris International in an all-cash deal for around $7.4bn (31.75 per share), including debt repayment.

Arris is active in the customer premises equipment (CPE), network & cloud and enterprise ...

WBA award winners announced

The Wireless Broadband Alliance has revealed the winners of its seventh annual Industry Awards. The announcement was made at Wireless Global Congress, which took place this week in London.

Speaking of the awards, a spokesperson for the organisation said: "They honour ...

In-Depth

View All

Cyber threats

What are the major threats in wireless cyber security today and how can they be overcome? By Kate O’Flaherty

In an age of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, security awareness among businesses is growing. Indeed, the sheer scale of the WannaCry ransomware that ...

Protecting lone workers

The need to protect employees from all walks of life when they are working alone has given rise to a variety of products and systems that can be tailored to their needs. Sam Fenwick reports

Employers have a duty of care to their employees. That extends to when they ...

Ryder Cup Wi-Fi

Sam Fenwick delves into the use of Wi-Fi at the Ryder Cup and hears from John Dundas about the communications used at the European Championships in Glasgow

In prehistoric times, we placed our hands on cave walls and blew pigment on them to say ‘we were here’. In ...

In the market for… Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi may be all around us, but there is a huge amount to consider when deploying it for business use, as Sam Fenwick discovers

As telent’s CTO Paul Dobbins says, “the challenge of Wi-Fi is that everybody thinks they can do it because you just deploy a few access ...

GVS: It's all about people

(Advertorial) It’s not just about the tech – the number of lines of code, the latest IoT integration, number of G or the supercharged software – it’s how our solutions help people in their everyday lives.

To the installers. We make our software simple, so you can get ...