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RSS forumThe Metro Ethernet Network: Comparison to Legacy SONET/SDH MANs for Metro Data Service Providers
White Paper This paper focuses on the results of a study commissioned by the MEF to quantify how Ethernet-over-fiber and next-generation SONET/SDH-based architectures afford the operational simplicity, data transport efficiency, and scalability required to... [10 Jul 2008]
Flash Forums and ForumReader: Navigating a New Kind of Large-Scale Online Discussion
White Paper This paper describes a popular kind of large, topic-centered, transient discussion, which is termed a flash forum. These occur in settings ranging from web-based bulletin boards to corporate intranets, and they display a conversational style... [09 Jul 2008]
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News The UK games industry needs to play a more active role in academia, helping to shape the syllabuses of university courses to ensure games development students graduate with the right skills for industry, a Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar... [08 Jul 2008]
Bandwidth Profiles for Ethernet Services
White Paper This paper provides a comprehensive technical overview of bandwidth profiles for Ethernet services, based on the work of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Technical Committee. The paper is intended to help buyers, users, providers of Ethernet services... [08 Jul 2008]
Delivering on the Promise of Ethernet: MEF Services Using Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture
White Paper The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), an influential industry organization, has defined a series of much-needed specifications equipment makers and service providers can follow to deliver Carrier Ethernet services in a consistent, if not equivalent... [08 Jul 2008]
2007 Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration: On-Demand Ethernet Services Across Global Optical Networks
White Paper The 2007 OIF Worldwide Interoperability Demonstration shows end-to-end provisioning of dynamic switched Ethernet services over multiple, control-plane enabled intelligent optical core networks through the use of OIF implementation agreements of... [04 Jul 2008]
Is ITIL the Equivalent to "IT Service Management"?
White Paper ITSMF stands for the IT Service Management Forum. When reading the ITIL books you will often find the phrases of "Management of IT Services" or "IT Service Management". The independent worldwide organization that supports ITIL is ITSMF, is using IT... [03 Jul 2008]
Is the ‘Smart’ Battery Help or Deterrent?
White Paper In the eyes of the Smart Battery System (SBS) forum, these batteries cannot be called ‘smart’. An increasing number of today’s rechargeable batteries are made smart’. Equipped with a microchip, these batteries are able to communicate with the... [03 Jul 2008]
SAP Business Forum: Accelerate Innovation and Growth
White Paper In 2006, SAP will be coming to a location near you to provide a full day of real-world insights, powerful keynote addresses, and customer roundtable discussions at SAP Business Forum '06, a valuable event in the SAP Business Innovation Series. [03 Jul 2008]
RFID Is Big But Nobody Understands the Costs
White Paper The huge turnout at the RFID Networking Forum in London at the beginning of December 2003 shows RFID to indeed be a hot topic within many industries. Interest was not just from retail and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies, contrary to the... [03 Jul 2008]
Mobile WiMAX - Part I: A Technical Overview and Performance Evaluation
White Paper This paper provides overview of Mobile WiMAX and provides the performance for the basic minimal configuration based on the WiMAX Forum Release-1 system profiles. It shows that mobile WiMAX can provide tens of megabits per second of capacity per... [03 Jul 2008]
Evaluation of COFDM for ATV Transmission Over 6MHz Channels
White Paper In July 1995, a 6 MHz Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (COFDM) transmission system prototype (COFDM-6) for Advanced TV (ATV) terrestrial broadcasting was evaluated at the Communications Research Centre (CRC) in Ottawa Canada. [03 Jul 2008]
Naming, Addressing & Identification Issues for UMTS
White Paper UMTS is expected to be a very important step in the development of telecommunications. This paper presents the initial study of the naming, addressing and identification issues that concern UMTS. Because part of UMTS will be based on the core... [03 Jul 2008]
Land Use and Development Challenges in America's Cities: A Report on the National League of Cities' 2003 National Forum on Building Quality Communities
White Paper This paper reflects on the content and the dialogue from the 2003 National Forum on Building Quality Communities. It includes five main sections. The first section lays out the fundamental role that land-use patterns play in shaping cities and... [03 Jul 2008]
The 3G / WLAN Debate: What Is the Impact of WLAN on 3G business ?
White Paper It is UMTS Forum's belief that WLAN and 3G are generally complementary within a total mobile data services portfolio. Thus, the UMTS Forum has started a number of objective studies in this area. Considerable debate in the wireless industry has... [03 Jul 2008]
