Archive for the 'Telecommunications' Category

Tangled in Providers’ Wires

Given the stable shortage of quality office space, construction of large business centers in the Urals is accelerating. Fault-finding tenants do not only lay claims on the location and comfort of office facilities; they also seek quality telecommunications. At the stage of building design large developers face a dilemma: creating an in-house provider service versus […]

Business Center on the Line

The conference IT Telecommunications in Real Estate Development and Management was organized by IM Events and took place in St. Petersburg in mid-October. Its main theme was interaction between building owners, management companies, and telecom market operators. The participants came to the conclusion that, no matter which way of dealing with an operator the owner […]

Telecommunication in Retail Centers

Retail centers are one of the biggest users of telecommunications services. Thanks to a diversity of tenants and current market dynamics, the needs of retail properties for high-quality telecommunication systems are no less than those of business centers.

E-Speak – Connecting up Offices in the Digital Age

In the dim and distant past, company offices exchanged messages by employing couriers on horseback making their way across treacherous terrain. In the twenty first century the pace of business has changed beyond recognition. Nowadays vital information is exchanged securely in seconds between offices located on different continents. VPNs (virtual private networks) are what is […]

Otherworldly Connections

The Russian IToutsourcing market is growing by 60%70% per year, and according to experts, the monetary volume on the IToutsourcing market will reach one billion dollars by 2009. However, according to specialists, the majority of players in this market segment offer lowquality services. Moreover, Russia’s traditional distrust of outsiders affects the market, inasmuch as businesses […]

Pocket-Sized Telecoms

According to specialists, the share of the local telecommunications provider market in Russia is not more than one to two percent and is shrinking each year. Nevertheless, several building owners and developers continue to set up their own “pocket” operators, as they do not wish to miss out on the profits from this niche and […]

The Web in Warehouses

A modern logistics center is comprised of two sections – a warehouse and offices. For the majority of companies, a warehouse is a remote object; therefore, the high-speed transmission of data between the head office and the warehouse is important. However, the high cost of installing telecommunications on the warehouse premises and, correspondingly, the high […]

Silence on the Office Airwaves

Extensive IT implementation in the commercial real estate market has led office tenants to become evermore demanding. The standard telecoms services package moves with the times and adds new services. However, given the deficit of highquality premises developers and owners are prepared to lose tenants in order to maintain their existing business models in working […]

Hardware Games

At the moment IT communications systems are increasingly influential on the business of office building tenants. This means that tenants are making ever more stringent demands on the telecommunications aspect of business centers, which is becoming one of the main competitive advantages when choosing a business center. The telecommunications equipment, which guarantees that the tenant […]

Good Connections

In the Moscow market for telecommunications services for commercial real estate competition is steep. In today’s market with a sharp shortfall in high quality office areas it is generally tenants who are losing out in the balance between developers, operators and tenants. However, market experts are convinced that the key future trend will be an […]

Battle of Wireless Telephony Begins

For the fourth year now the Wi-Fi race has been unfolding in the economically developed countries of North America, Europe and South East Asia. New wireless Internet zones are appearing in these regions on an almost daily basis. Since these zones are based on technology of the local wireless network standard Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), they […]