Insight
Welcome to TNC’s Insight portal. Below are white papers, articles and blogs created for you, by TNC.
Insight Article: Unlocking Value with Zero Trust Networking
Executive Summary In today’s digital landscape, cyber security is essential. As organisations seek to protect their data and infrastructure, Zero Trust Networking (ZTN) is emerging as a significant contributor to an organisation’s cyber security strategy, and is...
20 Years of The Network Collective: A Conversation with our Founder & Telecoms Expert John Waterhouse
This year is an important one for The Network Collective as we’re celebrating 20 years of delivering truly independent telecoms and network expertise. So, it’s only right that we share the story about how we got here. We sat down with Founder and industry expert...
Insight Article – Preparing for Analogue Switch-Off – What You Need to Do
One of the most challenging and misunderstood topics in the UK telecoms market in 2025 is the impending analogue switch-off. Despite years of planning by Ofcom and the telcos, there continues to be confusion about what is happening, when it is happening, and what you...
Insight Article: How To Achieve Cost Savings Across Network, Telecoms, and Mobile Services
Most organisations need to deliver cost savings as they seek to weather challenging financial times, and for many as they brace for the increase in employer National Insurance contributions (ENICs) set for April 2025. It is therefore vital these organisations...
Insight Article: Is SD-WAN the Compact Disc of Network Technologies?
For decades, vinyl was the way we all consumed music – from the original 78s to the 45s and 33s from the 1950s and 1960s onwards, vinyl led the way. Then came the 90s and suddenly vinyl was the old, outgoing, legacy, analogue technology being swept aside by the...
With SASE on the rise, is time up for SD-WAN?
It doesn’t seem that long ago that the big debate in the WAN industry was whether MPLS was dead, slayed by the arrival of SD-WAN, so can we really already be contemplating the demise of SD-WAN, itself slayed by the rise of SASE? Amazing as it might seem, that is a...
Insight Article: Untangling the Relationship between SASE and SD-WAN
In one of our recent articles “MPLS vs. SD-WAN vs. SASE” we talked about a technology revolution in the enterprise network market, and concluded that we expect more of our customers to begin their transitions into Phase 3 (SD-WAN) and/or Phase 4 (SASE) over the next...
Insight Article: What’s the Latest News and Business Cases for 5G?
TNC last wrote a deep dive examination of the use cases for 5G in early 2020, just before the world was turned upside down by COVID-19. With the UK emerging from lockdown, it felt like a great time to look again at where 5G is today, and how those use cases, and the...
Insight Article: Five Key Factors for Successful Network and Telecoms Procurement
TNC has been helping organisations execute successful network and telecoms procurement processes for more than 15 years. In that time TNC has seen the full range of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Through these processes, TNC has come to see 5 key factors that...
Insight Article: End Of The Line – UK ISDN & PSTNs To Be Retired
KEY MESSAGE – Openreach’s analogue network is to be completely switched off by the end of 2025 but, in several test sites and areas of high fibre availability, the process has already begun. IMPACT: Withdrawal of PSTN/ISDN2/ISDN30 and ADSL. Move towards FTTP and...
Insight Article: Enterprise Network Design for the Cloud Revolution
Pretty much every organisation now has a cloud-first application strategy and an active programme to migrate as many applications as possible to the cloud. Unfortunately, not every organisation has a network capable of supporting that cloud-first strategy, and many of...
ZTNA Roadmap: Steps to Creating Your Strategy
We’re living in an age where cyber security has never been more in the spotlight. With people leading increasingly digital lives and the vast majority of the UK workforce working from home as well as the office, businesses have had to adapt the way they operate and...
Insight Article: SOGEA, SOTAP, so what?
You’ve probably heard of SOGEA, you may have heard of SOTAP, you may even heard of SOGFAST – these are new products from Openreach that will be vital in the coming years to fill the gap between the withdrawal of the analogue technologies and the nirvana of a full...
Insight Article: How to Manage Network Transformation and Optimise your Business Case
A changing landscape The last few years have seen a dramatic shift in how we all use technology and how we all communicate. Following the pandemic, many companies have seen a change in infrastructure, with a reliance on digital like never before. This coupled with...
Insight Article: Cost saving in an age of change: How to save money on your telecoms network and services
In our previous insight article on network transformation, we talked about the dramatic shift in technology and communication post-pandemic, and how companies are relying on digital networks like never before due to changing business practices and evolving consumer...
Insight Article: The Ultimate Guide to Network and Telecoms Transformation
The complexities of IT network transformation Today’s network landscape is more complex than ever before. Rapidly changing business requirements spurred on by hybrid working and new ways of communicating have added a new level of complexity and strain to...
Insight Article: What Does AI Mean for Your Network?
2024 is going to be the year when AI goes mainstream. We all know this because of the hundreds of articles written in 2023 telling us, probably half of which were written using AI in the form in ChatGPT. However, I’m willing to bet that not a single visionary CEO...