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Google links US and Japan through undersea cables

News Google and the five telecommunications companies said in a joint statement that the 6,200-mile undersea fibre-optic cable, connecting the US to Japan, will cost $300m. Web giant Google has agreed to build an undersea cable with five...

Tags: google, sea, us, japan

[27 Feb 2008]

Performance Testing Solution for a Winter Olympic Website

whitepaper The approach taken by AppLabs was to implement 'Last mile' testing by engaging its peer-to-peer networking partner of over a million internet users. The company is a leader in online news and original journalism, with a wider outreach than any of...

Tags: software engineering

[24 Feb 2008]

New Human Resources and Payroll Solutions Streamline Processes, Empower People

whitepaper As a result, it strives to go the extra mile by empowering its employees with access to the most accurate information available - to improve job satisfaction and, ultimately, retain top-notch people. As a smaller organization sandwiched...

Tags: erp

[19 Feb 2008]

The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group

Comment Dave Lynch, a no-nonsense northerner hailing from the seaside town of Blackpool, has come a long way since starting out on the trams and buses that parade up and down the Golden Mile promenade - although he still holds a season ticket for the town...

Tags: go ahead group, dave lynch, cios, wi fi

[30 Jan 2008]

Cheat Sheet: Galileo

Cheat Sheet Well the UK has plans to use it for electronic 'pay per mile' road use charging by 2014 as it's cheaper than other tech available and more accurate than GPS. What's a 16th century scientist got to do with technology?

Tags: galileo, satellite, sat nav, europe

[28 Jan 2008]

Oxlo Systems: Catalyzing the "Last Mile" of the Automotive Demand Chain

whitepaper Now, they're focusing on the "Last mile" of the automotive demand chain - where vehicles are sold and serviced at retail - as an opportunity to streamline processes, improve communication and customer service, and improve the bottom line.

Tags: application servers

[10 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: North Kansas City Schools

whitepaper North Kansas City Schools began with a plan to upgrade their data infrastructure, commencing with the installation of a 49 mile fiber-optic wide-area network to provide high speed Internet and data access throughout the district.

Tags: switching

[10 Jan 2008]

Mobile WiMAX

whitepaper The technology aims at providing Non-LOS (Line Of Sight) mobile broadband last mile access solution. WiMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). This paper provides an overview of a mobile WiMAX solution.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, mobility, wimax, aims

[07 Jan 2008]

Fast Ethernet Is Sometimes Faster Than Gigabit Ethernet on LFN - Observation of Congestion Control of TCP Streams

whitepaper This paper shows the observation on TCP/IP 7500-mile data transfer between Maryland and Tokyo, where the bottleneck is OC-12 APAN line. With the rapid progress of network technology, over- 10Gbps domestic backbone network is ready to use, and...

Tags: ethernet

[20 Dec 2007]

When 'Mission-Critical' Means Securing Public Safety, a Truly Reliable Network Solution Is the Only Option

whitepaper Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) - protects more than two million citizens over a 2,100-square-mile area. The MDPD was in dire need of an infrastructure upgrade. It was also looking to provide more bandwidth to its workforce and to bring the...

Tags: switching

[18 Dec 2007]

Preparing for Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology

whitepaper The move from 32-bit Intel architecture (IA-32) to 64 bits actually squared available memory, theoretically providing the capability to name each grain in a cubic mile of sand. The recent introduction of Intel’s new Extended Memory 64 Technology...

Tags: high performance computing, memory, intel, workstation

[12 Dec 2007]

Receiver-Driven Bandwidth Sharing for TCP and Its Application to Video Streaming

whitepaper In many cases, users have bandwidth-limited last mile connections to the Internet which act as network bottlenecks. Applications using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), such as web-browsers, ftp, and various Peer-to-Peer (P2P) programs, dominate...

Tags: bandwidth issues

[05 Dec 2007]

Expedient Communications Launches First Nationwide Ethernet Over Copper Service

whitepaper Expedient Communications is a leading national telecommunications company offering Connectivity and Managed IP services through its Ethernet Anywhere network, the industry's first nationwide deployment of Gigabit Ethernet and Ethernet copper...

Tags: ethernet

[02 Dec 2007]

Delivering High-Speed Wireless Internet Access to the City of Buffalo, Minnesota

whitepaper The City of Buffalo conducted a thorough review of available broadband Internet technologies and determined that WaveRider's Last Mile Solution was the only commercially available product that would meet its requirements.

Tags: buffalo, high speed, community, cable

[25 Nov 2007]

Photos: Robots race around 'Darpa city'

Photo The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, raised the green flag on 11 driverless cars to manoeuver a 60-mile course at the former George Air Force Base in Oro Grande, California - or what race officials dubbed Darpa city.

Tags: photo, darpa, race, robots

[14 Nov 2007]

Large-Scale TCP Models Using Optimistic Parallel Simulation

whitepaper Internet data traffic is doubling each year, yet bandwidth does not appear to be growing as fast as expected and thus short falls in available bandwidth, particularly at the "Last mile" may result. To address these bandwidth allocation and...

Tags: tcp - ip, bandwidth, traffic, raised

[30 Oct 2007]

Streaming Media Workflow

whitepaper Discusses streaming media workflow with Samuel Turcotte of Sun's Digital Media Group, covering topics such as streaming media workflow paper, streaming media ecosystems, content monetization and last mile ISPs.

Tags: streaming media, media, workflow, streaming

[28 Oct 2007]

An Empirical Evaluation of Wide-Area Internet Bottlenecks

whitepaper Conventional wisdom has been that the performance limitations in the current Internet lie at the edges of the network - i.e.last mile connectivity to users, or access links of stub ASes. As these links are upgraded, however, it is important to...

Tags: bandwidth issues

[20 Oct 2007]

The United States Broadband Problem: Analysis and Policy Recommendations

whitepaper This paper discusses "Last mile" broadband services, i.e.the high-speed local data services required for large-scale videoconferencing, videotelephony, Internet-based audio and video entertainment, multimedia email and Web sites, telecommuting...

Tags: broadband

[19 Oct 2007]

On the Feasibility of Switching ISPs in Residential Multihoming

whitepaper In theory, multihomed Internet hosts, that is, hosts simultaneously connected to multiple Internet Service Providers (ISP) should see increased access capacity, be able to circumvent possible last-mile congestion problems, and experience improved...

Tags: switching, hosts, quality service, multihoming

[19 Oct 2007]

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