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East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust extends MLL WAN contract
17 January 2025
MLL Telecom and East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) have renewed wide-area-network services for a further three years (with a one year extension option).
MLL’s contract, valued at £1.7million, provides connectivity to 68 EMAS ambulance stations and two data centres and includes the upgrading of the majority of the stations to Gigabit circuit bearers. Alongside the increase in circuit bandwidths, refreshed edge site ‘SD-WAN Ready’ routers are being provided to ensure the station connectivity is future proofed in terms of Gigabit capacity and a flexible future technology roadmap.
Find out more 43% of financial services industry to miss DORA deadline
16 January 2025
New research from Orange Cyberdefense reveals that 43% of the UK financial services industry will miss the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) deadline when the European Union’s (EU) latest regulation takes effect on 17 January.
The risk for the 43% is significant given the financial fines that can be levied for non-compliance with DORA of up to 1% of worldwide daily turnover for as long as six months.
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BT trials 5G Standalone network slicing for Christmas market
16 January 2025
BT Group has announced the first real-world deployment of 5G Standalone network slicing capabilities over the EE mobile network, launched to support faster and more resilient mobile payments at Belfast’s Christmas Market.
During the two-week trial, a dedicated slice of the EE 5G network was partitioned for use in the renowned Lavery’s Beer Tent to support its eight mobile payment terminals, enabling superfast card and mobile payments for thousands of customers. It marks the first time that a business has benefitted from access to a partitioned slice from EE’s public network and live 5G Standalone core.
Find out more UK’s ESN advances with Samsung, Ericsson and Exponential-e
16 January 2025
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is teaming up with IBM as the mission-critical (MCX) solution provider to the UK’s Home Office, for a User Services deployment as part of the Emergency Services Network (ESN).
Designed to prioritize network access for first responders in emergencies, ESN will deliver reliable and seamless connectivity to over 300,000 first responders in the UK.
