What Sadiq Khan’s smart city strategy means for real London businesses
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As one of the world’s most important global cities, and comfortably Europe’s biggest tech industry hub, London demands world-class Ethernet connectivity. Unfortunately, for various reasons, it doesn’t always get it. Even in places like Westminster, home of the only British politicians with greater global influence …
How The Land Lies After The Earthquake Of MiFiD II Compliance
It says a lot about the complexity of regulatory compliance that a major new directive like MiFiD ii can be primed and ready to go on the books for over three and a half years, but many financial services firms were still unprepared for its …
Why connectivity is top of UK SMEs’ wishlists for enhanced productivity
The latest ONS figures have again placed the UK’s labour productivity rate last among G7 nations. At least it’s growing, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, even if it’s only been by a single percentage point over the last five years. Greater productivity means …
3 steps to ensuring your IT relocation runs smoothly
People tend to take a day, or even a week, off work when they move home. Staying with friends for an evening, ordering takeaways, having important possessions locked up in storage – ‘normal service’ is very much interrupted. They say there is nothing more stressful …
Why Westminster is an Ethernet notspot for many SMEs – and how to put it right
According to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 93% of the UK is now served by superfast Ethernet broadband, with the number being boosted by a nationwide government effort to bring rural areas up to speed with urban areas. Consumer rights group Which? has …
What’s the value of partner relationships in the age of self-service and automated provisioning?
To the next person who tells you self-service and automation is bad, ask them when they last used an ATM cash machine (and when they next plan to hang around their local bank branch until it opens so that they can queue up to see …
How to Avoid Fibre Wayleave Delays
Poor connectivity was always the price a business paid for operating in the middle of nowhere. Locate your office somewhere like central London instead, and you can tap into a multitude of high capacity networks and peering points. But as nationwide speeds and services have …
WANs vs LANs for Businesses
Luminet promises to “take away the debate about public and hybrid cloud and turn your WAN into your LAN”. The obvious questions that follow are: What are WANs and LANs? What are differences between WANs and LANs? How does Luminet effectively bridge this gap? What …
Events Issue Solved
Luminet was called upon by long-time partner, Attend2IT, when faced with a Wi-Fi events issue. Attend2IT, founded in 2008, delivers high-end IT solutions that are designed around the demanding timelines of the event industry. The team works on international events, providing the best solutions in …
One year on from the Holborn Fire
One year on, and we are delighted to still be working with many of companies who suffered with connectivity as a consequence of the Holborn fire. Just goes to show Luminet is way more than just a temporary disaster recovery solution. Read the full story …
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