Category Archives: Airfibre & Telco Industry

Business Broadband

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Business Broadband. What do you need to consider? If you are buying business broadband, you have a great deal of considerations that you need to factor in before making a decision. In this blog I seek to address the fundamentals that you need to consider including: What is business broadband? Is…

LoS Planning

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Protecting Vital Communications This week a Link failed on the network due to an obstruction in the Line of Sight. It beggars’ belief that anyone might consider it reasonable to leave a pile of old furniture and other junk on top of a Georgian building in Dublin waiting for a gust…

Measuring Personal Inflation

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Measuring Personal Inflation – Get a grip… Noting a press article yesterday outlining how Putin is planning for an extended war on the premise that the economic coalition waged against Russia will breakdown over time, I am inclined to predict that the inflation we face today is going to hang around…

Bio Chips

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Bio Chips My erstwhile colleague and business partner (the bearded technical one) told me several years ago that he would be first in the queue for a chip implant into his hand if only to be able to settle the bill for his pint (and mine) with the wave of his…

Telco Suicide

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Telco Suicide In the 1960s telecommunications networks were crap; albeit the preserve of insanely smart engineers giving birth to the Internet (read up on ARPANET). By the early 80s telecommunications and packet switching networks were brilliant. They worked. The operators were respected. The industry was booming. Now, once mighty Telcos appear…

Getting Ready for the META Internet Business World…

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Getting Ready for the META Internet Business World… Having returned from UK following an extended Covid inspired leave of absence I returned to commuting to Airfibre’s new offices in Dún Laoghaire along a route that takes me past numerous bus and LUAS stops along the way The numbers of people with…

Firewall (FaaS) & WiFi (WaaS) as a Service.

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Getting Ready for the META Internet Business World… Wake up & get real for the masses Based upon research and live customer experiences dating from Q4 2017, I have come to the opinion that the FaaS & WaaS add to the long list of technologies where vendors over rate the value…

The Internet Layer Cake

Serving Businesses Since 2008 The Internet Layer Cake With the announcement that Airfibre is adding an INEX peering point to its Cork exchange I got to thinking that the majority of Airfibre’s customers may well ask “So What?”. Whilst the benefits to Airfibre as with any Telco are obvious (more efficient utilisation of the backbone…

No Communications with Communications Companies? How Ironic…

Serving Businesses Since 2008 No Communications with Communications Companies? How Ironic… I read with interest recent publicity regarding the near impossible challenge of dealing with Telcos over the phone. Whether it is a billing enquiry or a call for support, we have all become to accustomed to the ritual. The automated answering system generally wastes…

Market Sector Analysis

Serving Businesses Since 2008 Market Sector Analysis As an Internet Service Provider, Airfibre’s rate of business expansion has been impacted by Covid-19 – clearly less relevant than the health toll placed upon the country. Telco’s can draw ‘business comfort’ from their recurring revenues business model and dependency of their customers upon the communications services that…