Steve's Blog
More thoughts on content prepositioning
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 11:25.Are you getting beaten up by your Sales Director because your Moscow sales office can’t train on the new Sales 2.0 webinar? Is your CEO giving you ‘evils’ because Shanghai can’t view the company results video he spent hours recording?
Content prepositioning and the end user experience
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 11:07.I’ve just finished a white paper on content prepositioning and how mobile internet users stand to benefit from it. The fact is that whilst the current UK mobile 3G network can be very fast at up to 7.2Mbps, the reality is somewhat more humble
Mobile broadband becoming a victim of its own success
Monday, 12 October 2009 10:46.I read with great interest an article from the BBC about the mobile broadband operators feeling the strain as more and more users become equipped with devices such as 3G dongles and smart phones to access the Internet. The core issue is whilst the number of network users is rapidly increasing, the available bandwidth is not with some network operators already claiming that the ‘current levels of use are crippling their network.’
Accelerating your WAN
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 12:46.I still remember the delight when my dad upgraded our dusty 9.6Kbps modem to a 56kbps. At the time it was a massive improvement and websites seemed to fly down to the PC, but then as links became faster, the websites became richer, embedding audio and video and soon it seemed as if the Internet had ground to a halt again. The same can be said of many corporate WAN links. That 1Mbps leased line may have seemed to be lightning fast at first but as more and more files and applications are migrated to the data centre to save operational costs, the users begin to complain again of poor network performance. Files that were once held locally are now hundreds or even thousands of miles away and having to contend with a much smaller amount of bandwidth and higher latency. Consequently, that word document that was once so quick to open on the local file server now appears to freeze and all you can do is bash the keyboard in frustration.
Network Optimisation and what it really means
Thursday, 16 April 2009 11:47.People shout about optimisation all the time but how do you define optimal? How can you say for definite that a system is running to the best of its capability?
