http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog.php IP Performance Blog en-gb http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/bletchleyparkandturing http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/bletchleyparkandturing Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:53:16 +0000 A report on the National Museum of Computing and National Codes Centre at Bletchley Park, and a retrospective of Alan Turings life and work... info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/3ehousesblog http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/3ehousesblog Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:26:48 +0000 For the last two years I have been working with my colleague Dr Alan Holt on a pan-European project to pilot IT and smart metering systems in social housing. Part-funded by the European Commission, the objective of the 3e-Houses project is to help households reduce their energy bills through the deployment of ICT and smart meters. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/raspberrypi1 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/raspberrypi1 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:13:34 +0100 It is believed that the art of programming computers is being lost in this country. One organisation that has recognised this is the Raspberry Pi foundation. They have developed a Ģ25 computer based upon the ARM processor which can trace its roots back to the company that developed the BBC Micro, namely Acorn. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/juniper_bluecoat_transparent_proxy http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/juniper_bluecoat_transparent_proxy Thu, 03 May 2012 08:25:47 +0100 Setting up transparent proxy redirect services on Juniper EX or SRX devices to mimic some of the features of Cisco WCCP. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/bluecoat_and_spamhaus http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/bluecoat_and_spamhaus Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:53:35 +0100 Adding custom Linux scripted Central Policy to the Blue Coat ProxySG. This example uses the SpamHaus DROP (Do not ROute Or Peer) Blacklist info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/allot_traffic_steering http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/allot_traffic_steering Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:53:56 +0100 Transparent redirect of traffic using the Traffic Steering functionality of the Allot Communications NetEnforcer. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/digitaltrends2012 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/digitaltrends2012 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:46:35 +0000 A couple of weeks ago I spent a very informative morning at a breakfast seminar run by Hotwire, 33-Digital and Skywrite, and held in the screening room of the Soho Hotel. It was a presentation of a white paper entitled "Ten Driving Forces in Digital Marketing - A Digital Trends Paper 2012" info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/telecomsindustrygokartingnight http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/telecomsindustrygokartingnight Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:21:21 +0000 IP-Performance fielded 2 karts in the "Telecoms Industry Go Karting Night" at Team Sport Karting in Bristol last night. Kart number 11 comprised Nigel Morgan, Philippe Roels and Matt Dadd while number 12 was occupied by Andy Foukes, Steve Bellingham and Dan Hunt. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/renderyard_film_fest_2011_3 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/renderyard_film_fest_2011_3 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:42:41 +0000 Having spent an ungodly amount of time getting there, it was now time to actually meet the organisers of the 7th Renderyard Short Film Festival, and to attend and participate in the director and producer interviews, screenings and Q&A sessions. Oh, and seeing as the "Semana Audiovisual y Digital de La Rioja" which hosts Renderyard, is in... er, La Rioja, there was a better than fair chance that there may be an opportunity to sample the local produce. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/renderyard_film_fest_2011_2 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/renderyard_film_fest_2011_2 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:15:24 +0000 Due to attend the 7th Renderyard Short Film Festival, being held in Logroņo, La Rioja, in northern Spain, I was grubbing about in the dark early on Friday morning making last-minute preparations for my trip (I was going to say 'flight', but as I was to find out, it was going to heavily involve tubes, taxis, trains, cars, buses and Shank's Pony, too) info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/renderyard_film_fest_2011 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/renderyard_film_fest_2011 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:32:22 +0000 I'm about to travel to the 7th Renderyard Short Film Festival, being held in Logroņo, La Rioja, in northern Spain, and thought I'd write some blog articles about the experience, and IP Performance's representation there. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/zigbee_wifi_e3houses http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/zigbee_wifi_e3houses Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:53:55 +0100 3e-Houses is an EU-sponsored smart energy metering research project being carried out by a consortium of organisations from Spain, Germany, The UK and Bulgaria. The aim of the project is to integrate established ICT technologies in social housing in order to give residents the ability to manage their energy consumption. Real time monitoring of energy usage is central to 3e-Houses project and is heavily dependent on wireless networking. The smart metering systems used in the 3e-Houses project incorporate devices that adopt both 802.11 (WiFi) and 802.15.4 (ZigBee) wireless standards. In this article we discuss cross technology interference (CTI) between these two technologies. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/qos_part_2 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/qos_part_2 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:35:42 +0100 Within the IT industry it has become customary to use the term quality-of-service to mean the management of traffic rather than the some measure of the service level. This has merely become the adopted convention. In this article I drop the established convention “quality-of-service” term in favour of traffic management. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/absolutecad http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/absolutecad Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:53:46 +0100 (START-BOLD) 'The Cable Guy' or Installation Art? In this first of an occasional series of items on industry contacts and partners, we focus on Absolute CAD, specialist broadcast and post production industry wiring infrastructure specialists whose work transcends what we normally think of as 'structured cabling'...(END-BOLD) info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/virtualisation_fundamentals_part_1 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/virtualisation_fundamentals_part_1 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:26:21 +0100 In the first of a series of blogs, I will be investigating what virtualisation is and why people are doing it. In subsequent parts, we will look at the how of it, the danger zones, and then get more specific. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/qos_part_1 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/qos_part_1 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:43:03 +0100 In the beginning the Internet was designed to transmit packets on a best-effort basis. While the network makes a sincere attempt to transmit packets, there are no guarantees. info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/5ghzwlanfrequencybandregulation http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/5ghzwlanfrequencybandregulation Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:25:56 +0100 This article discusses the regulation of wireless local area network (WLANs) operating in the 5 GHz spectrum range in the UK info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/wired_wireless http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/wired_wireless Tue, 31 May 2011 18:04:29 +0100 Does Meru's 4th Generation WLAN call time on the edge switch - or is the CoE calling time on the wireless network? info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/ipv6readiness http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/ipv6readiness Thu, 12 May 2011 11:27:10 +0100 Migration and Transition Strategies #IPv6 info@ip-performance.co.uk () http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/blogpost1 http://www.ip-performance.co.uk/blog/blogpost1 Wed, 04 May 2011 11:02:02 +0100 Welcome and ground rules to the IP Performance Blog. info@ip-performance.co.uk ()