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The technology has been doing the same along<br />
London’s fashionable Oxford Street, where it has<br />
been installed aside the Wi-Fi radios that are affixed<br />
on lampposts along the street, enabling the<br />
performance of the various Wi-Fi hotspots to be<br />
viewed, assessed and better managed. Indeed, the<br />
success of that Oxford Street initiative has resulted in<br />
the further deployment of OptiWi-Fi technology<br />
within the O2 retail store network across the UK.<br />
discovery Ireland 100,101<br />
The pace of this progress has bred not even a scintilla<br />
of complacency. Quite the opposite: Davis is<br />
conscious that where technology is concerned<br />
nothing stays the same for long. Change is not only<br />
inevitable, it is constant and Davis’s focus has<br />
remained fixed on the future and on staying ‘ahead<br />
of the curve’. Already he has developed a tool for<br />
measuring and optimizing the quality of VoIP calls,<br />
which has spawned a new company, Vopti, which<br />
aims to commercialise the technology.<br />
And while it is still ‘early days’ for this new company,<br />
it is clear that the ‘puzzles’ to which Davis is so drawn<br />
will, into the future, only become more elaborate and<br />
complex. ‘The next really big thing is the Internet of<br />
Things’, Davis says. ‘By 2020 there will be about 50<br />
billion devices connected to the internet, everything
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