Insight

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We’re living in an age where cyber security has never been more in the spotlight. With people leading increasingly digital lives and big chunks of the UK workforce working from home as well as the office, businesses have had to adapt the way they operate and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...