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    <title>The MLL Telecom Blog</title>

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    <description>Thoughts and views from the world of networking from MLL Telecom</description>
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          <title>How to Build a Successful Radio Link &#45; Part 1</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/30/How_to_Build_a_Successful_Radio_Link__Part_1</link>
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      Most Network Managers know that microwave radio links require a clear line of sight and access to spectrum, but to achieve a successful link that is going to deliver service 99.999% of the time the devil is in the detail.  

So when you embark on sourcing a new network link either point-to-point, or point to multipoint, what are the factors that the experts recommend you consider?

In-house vs. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Cloud in the Real World</title>
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      Recently I've been thinking about "real-world cloud" and what that means to our customers and I can't escape the conclusion that "cloud" itself isn't a solution, what customers want is a service, or services that they can rely on, measure and feel the benefit of.  Like most things in life, it all comes down to the simple things and I think that all "cloudy" vendors would do well to remember that. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Does Social Media have a place in the workplace?</title>
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      Companies are increasingly embracing the role of social media in day to day working life - workers use it to network, or for research, or troubleshooting.  I asked a few colleagues to tot up the number of times they went online in a day, for work, and visited sites like Facebook and Twitter, forums, or read comments on an article etc.  On average we visited sites seven times.  

The most popular social media site was Linked In - for obvious reasons it is invaluable for networking. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>&quot;The CloudFrame&quot;</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/27/The_CloudFrame</link>
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      As I observed in a previous blog, current virtualisation and cloud technologies remind me of the way computing was delivered 20 years ago, i.e. centralised.  I was chatting recently to a director of a cutting edge Cloud management company and it struck me that the ultimate goal for cloud appears to be "run applications natively, allowing control at the application layer, so that resources can be scaled and managed without the Operating System overhead..." (my words). (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>PaaS (Pizza&#45;as&#45;a&#45;Service)</title>
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      I realised how far the proliferation of apps had come when recently sitting in a pizza chain with the family and watched a guy on the next table tapping away on his iPhone. What was he doing - catching up on some emails, poking a few people on Facebook? No, as it turned out he was paying for his bill using an app that had already let him find and book a table, review the menu and download any special offers. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Is it Worth it?</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/25/Is_it_Worth_it</link>
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      One of the things I often ask myself during the "dark days" of a new infrastructure or application deployment is: "is it even worth setting up all this monitoring stuff?"  Invariably, as the system settles down and begins to become "part of the plumbing" the monitoring system starts to become the most useful thing... (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Why Don&#39;t I Just Use the Browser?</title>
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      I just had a thought... One of the things that I now rely on is the ability to move between various computers, you know, laptop, desktop, server, phone, tablet etc. and still get my browsing environment, which of course now includes my documents, calendar and email thanks to Google Apps.  It wasn't all that long ago I had to remember all the key urls, but now they're available via bookmark synchronisation on all the platforms I use. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Rain Doesn&#39;t Stop Play</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/23/Rain_Doesnt_Stop_Play</link>
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      It always rains at Wimbledon - it is an occurrence  that practically defines the championship.   Of course, typically, as soon as they build the roof on centre court we get two weeks of glorious sunshine for two consecutive years.  But however deliciously British the rain makes the tournament,  it does not stop it being a pain and dampening everyone's spirits. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>The French call it &quot;bouchon&quot;, for me it&#39;s an annoying bottle&#45;neck</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      Reading Nick Wood's blog  (Nick Wood, Total Telecom, in Singapore Tuesday 21 June 2011) made me think about my recent trip to France... . Why, you may ask?

Well, "Bouchon" ("plug") in French, is used to warn drivers of a bottle-neck or traffic jam ahead, which is something that Nick talks about about in his blog with regard to mobile backhaul. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Harry Potter and the Mobile Backhaul Upgrade</title>
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      If you had  told me a couple of years ago that I would be able to talk about Harry Potter and  mobile backhaul  in the same sentence I would have thought you odd.   However, as if by magic, I am about to do just that:

The same technology that will allow you to watch part two of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 3D  uses the same principles that  will allow mobile operators to upgrade their wireless mobile backhaul capacity by 100% without paying for delivery of new fibre. 

There. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>&quot;Dad, where&#39;s all my bandwidth gone?&quot;</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/20/Dad_wheres_all_my_bandwidth_gone</link>
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      The other day I was happily working away on my laptop at home when all hell broke loose - "Dad, Dad!  Where's all the bandwidth gone?"  Child one was in the middle of some home work and was mortified at the performance she was getting. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>The End of Net Neutrality – An inevitability if we want fast mobile broadband</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/18/The_End_of_Net_Neutrality__An_inevitability_if_we_want_fast_mobile_broadband</link>
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      Mobile Operators are dealing with surges in data demand that will require an upgrade of their networks. But I doubt this is breaking news to you.  The issue of net neutrality is not really news either, but it hasn't achieved anywhere near as much coverage.  People can relate to poor connection speeds on their mobile phones, when the '3G' disappears and their BBC app won't load. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Local Loop Unbundling</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/19/Local_Loop_Unbundling</link>
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      With all the talk about Fibre to the Cabinet  (FTTC) offering faster  broadband speeds,  and the promise of 'nationwide' fibre to the premises (FTTP/FTTH) - is this really  the last hurrah for copper? 
 
Of course not. If FTTP was viable everywhere  it would have been implemented long before now. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Royal Weddings, Cup Finals &amp; Your Mobile</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/17/Royal_Weddings_Cup_Finals__Your_Mobile</link>
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      The Royal Wedding in April broke the online streaming records - beating both President Obama's Inauguration and the 2010 World Cup, with an estimated 400 million viewers on YouTube alone.  The surge in the use of Flash Mobile RTMP live streaming protocol whilst the wedding was on suggests that a significant number of people watched the wedding on their Smartphone.  
 
The mobile network operators are already under pressure to deal with an increasing demand for capacity from their customers. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>How  Ready is the Public Sector for the PSN?</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/16/How__Ready_is_the_Public_Sector_for_the_PSN</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      A recent report from Cisco Systems stated that "Some 69 per cent of public sector IT budget holders are aware of the Public Sector Network (PSN), but just 13 per cent are using it."  However an article from Computing magazine posited that the potential cost savings from the PSN (government estimates point to &pound;651million) will eventually push public sector organisations to overcome any barriers (security, budget limitations and political inertia) that are preventing them from&hellip; (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>What Makes the Best Wholesale Carrier?</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/15/What_Makes_the_Best_Wholesale_Carrier</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      MLL Telecom is a wholesale carrier providing services to mobile and fixed operators across the UK. We've just posted growth in new business of 102%  year on year, up from 68% growth the previous year, so that suggests we are getting something right.

MLL Telecom takes a completely different position to the traditional wholesale providers. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Can Academy Schools Enjoy the Benefits of Network Sharing?</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/14/Can_Academy_Schools_Enjoy_the_Benefits_of_Network_Sharing</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      The current buzz around 'an inclusive society' has implications for Academy Schools. Their students should enjoy the same opportunities as their Local Authority counterparts and yet they are an autonomous body who adhere to different guidelines.

Initiatives such as 'Total Place', the PSN and 'digital inclusion' all relate to the idea of an inclusive society.  Everyone should have access to the same resources, through shared services, at significant cost savings. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>IPocalypse Now?</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/13/IPocalypse_Now</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      Monday 31st January 2011 was an important day for the Internet. You probably didn't notice, and you could hardly be blamed. The rather prosaic announcement came from APNIC (The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre):

"Two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA (39/8 and 106/8)" [1]

IANA (The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) dishes out IP addresses to the world's Regional Registries. It's now run out of usable IPv4 addresses. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>New Year and New Predictions</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/12/New_Year_and_New_Predictions</link>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      With the introduction of the New Year, I always look forward to reading the predictions for what we can expect for the year; a fresh year and new opportunity. In my mind a prediction creates a sense of change; however there is no reason why the prediction would not suggest a situation of status-quo i.e. the year ends as it began, the values of the stock markets remain the same and we end the year using the same technology as we had when we exited the previous year. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Property Issues are STILL a bugbear for Telecom Operators</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/11/Property_Issues_are_STILL_a_bugbear_for_Telecom_Operators</link>
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      Looking back on the development of mobile networks, the major constraint on roll-out was always the ability to deploy new sites.  The technology was developing fast; equipment vendors were innovative and providing new systems with more bandwidth, more speed and better service for less cost.  Getting permission for the equipment to be deployed, however, frustrated these technology focussed companies. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Rich information is sometimes just a matter of digging a bit deeper...</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/10/Rich_information_is_sometimes_just_a_matter_of_digging_a_bit_deeper</link>
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      A part of me is of a technical persuasion, this really isn't easy. The world constantly innovates, changes, resumes, reboots or drops into boot loader. Typically the IPL gets corrupted on a Friday night on the eve of a desperately needed long bank holiday weekend. The other day I found a root kit that had shadowed the BIOS, reordered the interrupt vectors, reformatted my FAT drive into NTFS, and then magically encrypted  it with triple AES. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>The Joys of a Good Service...</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/9/The_Joys_of_a_Good_Service</link>
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      Oh the joy of good service!  One of my greatest pleasures is stumbling across something, whether it be a product or a service, that simply does "exactly what it says on the tin".  A couple of examples spring to mind, one, my Tivoli table radio never fails to impress with it's excellent sound and very simple operation - it has just one (BIG) dial to twiddle and a couple of other controls (e.g. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Broadband Britain by 2015?</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/8/Broadband_Britain_by_2015</link>
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      The new coalition government has pledged to make Britain the fastest broadband nation in Europe by 2015, as well as ensure a minimum broadband speed of 2Mb is available to every home in Britain. 

As a nation we are often quick to look at this type of statement with sceptical eyes and question our ability to deliver. If I look back eight years to 2002 when Ben Verwaayen arrived at BT, there were approximately 100,000 ADSL broadband lines in UK homes. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Telecom Operators v Property Landlords</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/7/Telecom_Operators_v_Property_Landlords</link>
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      As a Chartered Surveyor and Town Planner that 'went native' and joined the Telecommunication Industry around ten years ago, I was flattered to be asked to speak on technology developments and their affect to the Property Profession's Henry Stewart Conference in London earlier in April.  
  
The leading lights of the profession were there; the speakers are at the cutting edge of current developments. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Buzzword bingo!</title>
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      "Cloud" - it's the current buzzword in IT, but what does it actually mean for IT departments and the businesses they serve?

Are you sitting comfortably?  Yes? Then let me tell you a story...

Many years ago, when I was just starting out in the technology industry, we worked on computer terminals. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Network Monetization</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      My learned colleague Richard Brandon recently posted a blog to this site summarising his thoughts around the recent Barcelona Mobile World Congress. In his own amusing style he managed to tease out some of the key themes across the event, while recreating some of the local Spanish atmosphere which not only provided food for thought, but also left me reaching for a bottle of 1996 Faustino 1 Rioja my weekend guests had kindly left behind. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Microwave vs Fibre in the LTE marketplace.</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[
      I've recently been bombarded by invites to webinars, webcasts and product exhibitions all preaching to me the value of microwave in the world of 3.5G+ and LTE.  The sheer volume of them has me overwhelmed and I am sure network designers in other organisations are feeling the same way. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Mobile World Congress 2010: Bread today, Jamon tomorrow?</title>
          <link>http://www.mlltelecom.com/news_views/blog/3/Mobile_World_Congress_2010_Bread_today_Jamon_tomorrow</link>
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      I have to confess I rather enjoyed this year's mobile fest in Barcelona. Aside from enjoying some excellent plates of local Jamon I was also treated to a plethora of LTE network demonstrations. In fact I must have seen more HD movies broadcast across the Spanish airwaves than you could find at your local Blockbusters. And very impressive it all was too. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Radio Frequency (RF) Hazards</title>
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      I was recently contacted by a very nice gentleman who was moving from rural Cornwall to Marlow, Buckinghamshire. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>The Today programme wakes up to mobile data</title>
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      My first waking moment is usually defined by the BBC's John Humphries as my alarm-radio tunes itself into Radio Four's Today programme.

So I'm used to starting the day with news of one disaster or another, either humatarian, military or political. (continued)      ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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