Helen Laidlaw

Helen Laidlaw

IT Systems Analyst
Helen Laidlaw is a tech expert specializing in IT security, networking, and development. Helen provides comprehensive insights into securing digital assets, crafting efficient software solutions, and optimizing network performance. Covering a wide variety of technical topics, she employs an accessible communication style, lending her content as an indispensable resource for anyone trying to navigate the complexities of modern technology.
Protecting Your Campus Network: Is it Even Possible?
Editorial Protecting Your Campus Network: Is it Even Possible?

Let’s face it: these days, if your students don’t have internet access, you might as well close shop. With the technologies you have at your disposal, that’s not really a problem – until you realize that each network comes with its own security risks. Campus networks in particular are difficult to k

What to consider when searching for the best NAS
Editorial What to consider when searching for the best NAS

Network attached storage or NAS is a technology that functions as a network node in a box. Without implying the same complexity of a file server, this storage system has a greater storage capacity and network administrators (and applications or users, if allowed) are able to access the NAS as they

Bluetooth 5.0 – a new standard for IoT
Editorial Bluetooth 5.0 – a new standard for IoT

Invented in 1994 by Ericsson, the Bluetooth technology serves in short-distance data traffic. Data exchange via Bluetooth employs “ s hort-wavelength UHF radio waves in the ISM band from 2.4 to 2.485 GHz ” and all such device manufacturers have to meet the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) sta

What are the dilemmas in copper moving out to let fiber in?
Editorial What are the dilemmas in copper moving out to let fiber in?

Telecommunications copper cables mainly belong to the group of outside plat cables (aerial cables, duct/buried cables, last link wire cables) and to the group of central office cables, which serve for signal transmission within buildings. Another producer describes their copper cables per usage, as

Disruptions in telecommunications: equipment-focused expectations
Editorial Disruptions in telecommunications: equipment-focused expectations

The Service Provider Telecom Equipment market could become $26 B higher by 2019 (considering the entire 2014-2019 period), compared to the previous 2008-2013 situation, according to this report from 2015. The ongoing and upcoming changes in telecommunications were expected to trigger an upheaval in

What is the future shape of telecommunications? (2016 Telco trends)
Editorial What is the future shape of telecommunications? (2016 Telco trends)

While various industries reflect progress and change to certain degrees and with different speeds of pervasion, the telecommunications industry stands right in the middle of all the new tech disruptions. This environment is highly prone to innovations, and its specific or adjacent activities

Is software-defined networking excellent for IoT?
Editorial Is software-defined networking excellent for IoT?

Software-defined networking allows network administrators to manage high-level functionality through abstraction, by decoupling the control plane from the data plane (physical and logical networks are separated via this configuration), and by interposing a mechanism that allows communications

Networking upgrade: when will we benefit from the 5G standard?
Editorial Networking upgrade: when will we benefit from the 5G standard?

The 5G standard represents the long awaited next major development in mobile telecommunications. With an estimated roll-out time within the next five years, 5G would meet the needs of IoT connectivity. A short history of 5G communication technology A significant partnership between NASA and the

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