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I’ve been to a couple of events this week about the Cloud. If you ask people about it, you’d most likely get one of two answers. It’s something to be embraced or something to be feared. Interestingly, even those who fear the cloud probably already use it, Gmail, Sky Anytime, BBC iPlayer anyone? The prevalence [...]

As a networking professional, I get enormously frustrated when I hear people talk about a wireless network that’s not working properly in an educational environment. I’ve been in meetings where consultants want costs before the site has even been surveyed, sometimes before the building is even completed. Let me tell why wireless needs to be [...]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190910 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918 If an IT based curriculum is to be delivered effectively investment in our school networks should increase. No, let me change that – it MUST increase – but it must increase in the right areas. I know times are hard, but having been through various tender processes lately I have seen people completely [...]

A personal reflection from Martin Scudder – Server Solutions Specialist – Lynx Networks plc . . . . I often ask myself whether IT concepts ever really change. Are we are just victims of the marketing gurus who are experts at renaming for their own purposes? A few years ago everyone was talking about Information [...]

I worry for schools that get bad advice when preparing invitations to tender for ICT solutions. I came across this several times this month. I’ve had four large tender responses to write for secondary schools who are looking to improve network performance. Having successfully completed similar projects recently we are being asked more frequently to [...]

One of our clients was having problems with his home broadband running very slowly  so a Lynx Network engineer took a look at it. He found that several phone extensions had been added to the cabling in a haphazard way by the previous occupants. These were no longer needed so they were removed. The broadband [...]

Anyone who has been in the IT industry for any length of time has seen new technologies and ideas come and go. Sometimes these have been good, sometimes, not so good. Some managed to be both through bad practise and implementation. Today the word on everyone’s lips is Cloud. We all already use a cloud [...]

It’s useful to know that a server using 400 watts of power would cost about £400 a year in electricity to run. You can use this when justifying the investment in virtual servers. Rather than having, say, six computers each acting as a server, you could have one or two computers running VM Ware, or [...]

Many specifications for data cabling systems ask for the installation of low smoke zero halogen (LSZH) cable but ignore the fact that most patch cords are PVC. If you’re specifying or placing an order for a cabling system, consider whether your patch cords should also be LSZH. When PVC cables burn they give off toxic [...]

We  went to see a potential customer last week with a view to supplying a new phone system. It turns out that they have to give 12 months notice to cancel the over-priced maintenance contract on their existing 10-year old phone system. The maintenance cost for one year is more than the second-hand value of the [...]