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Alcatel-Lucent posts first ever annual profit

Party hats

Franco-American PBX maker finally gets in the black six years after merger

10 Feb 2012

Reward in a recession

UKFast's Lawrence Jones

Spending on staff is a worthwhile investment even in tough times, according to Lawrence Jones

06 Feb 2012

ScanSource adds training collateral for comms VARs

Telstra Australia Telecommunications Exchange engineer at work

More collateral available ahead of new course rollout for 2012

03 Feb 2012

Liberal leanings in IT

Consumerisation will lead to more liberalisation around the use of IT within many organisations, argues Craig Wellman

27 Jan 2012

Taming SIP Vicious

Punk's not dead in the VoIP space, and action must be taken, notes Peter Cox

24 Jan 2012

Think vertical to gain focus

James Harris talks up the need to get specific when selling potential networking deals to enterprises

23 Jan 2012

Bush Telegraph and Atia win at Swyx event

Telecomms vendor acknowledges UK reseller success

20 Jan 2012

No buying the farm

Aiming for a bucolic existence - or just aiming wrong - may have unintended consequences, suggests Stuart Cordingley

16 Jan 2012

ShoreTel hunts enterprise A-team to help double EMEA sales

Vendor issues RFP for pan-EMEA distributors and looks to deepen ties with handful of tactical resellers

13 Jan 2012

Gamma Telecom turns 10

Company now has six sites and 550 resellers

21 Dec 2011

Christmas giving all wrapped up

Distributor dresses up for charity

20 Dec 2011

Channel must help financial sector comply

Tony Moulange says 2012 will see financial customers working harder to comply with new laws yet still profit

13 Dec 2011

Sales up and losses down as Daisy cools shopping spree

Publicly listed comms provider boosts H1 sales by almost 50 per cent but still runs at a 3.5 per cent operating loss

30 Nov 2011

Margin-rich Avaya tops buoyant PBX market

Telephony space looks in solid shape in Q3 but Cisco has to swallow ASP decline to keep pace, according to Infonetics

29 Nov 2011

Snow business

Is the UK economy and the channel up for another big chill this winter? Fleur Doidge finds out

21 Nov 2011

What you see is what you get

Bandwidth is another entity that could - and should - be delivered as a service, suggests Steve Palmer

21 Nov 2011

The route to better VoIP security

Jonathan Greenwood says IP telephony requires more security than some think

17 Nov 2011

Rise of the great green datacentre

In Portsmouth, Peer 1 Hosting has recently opened what it believes may be the UK’s greenest, most environmentally friendly datacentre. Fleur Doidge reports

14 Nov 2011

TalkTalk MD Lawton departs as IBM's Bligh appointed

Telco's boss moves on after five years with IBM's UK commercial chief stepping into the hotseat

08 Nov 2011

Getting more from convergence

IP telephony is yet to result in a complete communications and collaboration revolution but progress is being made, according to Chris de Silva

07 Nov 2011

Broadband gets back to business

With BT following Virgin into the market, now could be a good time to move customers away from ADSL to fibre optic connectivity, according to Henry West

07 Nov 2011

Green for the team

Rugby lover Niall Anderson would prefer to live in the country for his family - and of course to be closer to more golf links

04 Nov 2011

Ethernet answer to mobile data explosion

George Wareing reckons operators must prepare to boost network capacity

03 Nov 2011

Scream until you like it

Nimans gets into the Halloween spirit

31 Oct 2011

Resellers gear up for NEC

Partners of distributor Nimans enjoy day at Bedford Autodrome

26 Oct 2011

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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