Dr John Dimmock

South Coast

Technical Director

Central application management is as old as computing itself – we were running this sort of combination when the only workstations available to us were “dumb” terminals

Yes, it is the way forward and many old farts like me have advocated central application servers for many years

The problem is the inherent lack of reliability of pushing data over the existing telephone network, it will be fine when we all have radio and fibre links but the business model for the monopoly transit holder at this time cannot include this kind of investment, they are simply not going to spend any real money investing in fibre

As a provider of WAN systems our main issues are that the lines from client offices to exchanges are VERY vulnerable and almost every day we see connections dropping between end user and exchange. This is wholly understandable, some many push fit connections running over a network that is “power” fed – great for voice but pretty useless for data

The real question is, would you consider running your business over 100 year old technology?

Dr John L Dimmock - Technical Director
Media Services Sussex Ltd
Metroweb Network Services
First Internet UK Ltd
MetroCell Ltd