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RSS ringEthernet as Transport Technology of Choice in Campus Ring Environments
White Paper The demand for more bandwidth is clearly driven by IP-based applications and consequently service providers are looking at infrastructures best support such applications. It has become clear that a packet-centric infrastructure is preferred and it... [07 Jul 2008]
Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS)
White Paper Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) is Extreme Networks' solution for fault-tolerant Layer 2 ring topologies. EAPS is responsible for a loop-free operation and a sub-second ring recovery. The networking industry has relied on the... [06 Jul 2008]
The Right Ring
White Paper This paper describes how Accenture helped British Telecom to solve HR issues. BT was approached by Accenture, which also was mulling the commercial advantages posed by HR outsourcing. The two joined hands to build an HRO organization capitalizing... [03 Jul 2008]
Resilient Packet Ring Implementations for Advanced IP and Ethernet Service Delivery
White Paper As businesses deploy more sophisticated network applications, their need for customized, high-bandwidth services is increasing. To deliver the value-added services these customers demand, service providers are rapidly integrating packet-based... [01 Jul 2008]
UK contact centres up there with world's priciest
News The UK is one of the most expensive places in the world to run an onshore contact centre. It ranks alongside the Netherlands and France for costing the most in terms of wages, benefits, technology, property, mark-up and other expenses. [20 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester Readers were also busy commenting on the "ring of steel" automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera rollout in Manchester, while ID cards were a hot topic once again… [12 Jun 2008]
ANPR "ring of steel" watches over Manchester
News Manchester is now protected by a "ring of steel" - a network of surveillance cameras that will log almost every car entering the city centre. London's ring of steel was introduced in the early 1990s following a bombing campaign by the IRA. [05 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment Not openly in conference of course but their representatives changed their one-on-one sales pitch based on whether or not the male delegates were wearing a wedding ring. What really matters when it comes to chosing an overseas location for your... [03 Jun 2008]
AIX V5 Gigabit Ethernet Fast Failover
White Paper The millisecond failover time was designed as a migration path for dual ring FDDI users accustomed to continuous network availability and instantaneous port failover. The Gigabit Ethernet Fast Failover device driver feature provides autonomous self... [01 May 2008]
Bluetooth in Logistics - Will It Still Slip Between the Cup and the Lip?
White Paper Till date the UPS package tracking system had workers use ring scanners that were cabled to small computers on the wrist. The new system replaces this with a Bluetooth embedded cordless ring scanner that feeds data to a hip-mounted Windows CE... [10 Apr 2008]
Amdocs Case Study: tele.ring
White Paper tele.ring, the Austrian telecommunications provider owned by Western Wireless International, extended its Amdocs convergent voice-data customer care and billing to support GPRS in 2001.tele.ring wireline, wireless and Internet services are... [04 Apr 2008]
Mobile 'radio silence' fear afflicts Brits
News Nomo-phobia joins other anxiety-based mobile neologisms, including CrackBerry, the nickname for the BlackBerry smart phone which plays up its addiction properties; 'phantom ring', when a mobile user reports hearing their phone apparently ring... [31 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Thanks to the HMRC debacle and the ID cards U-turn, the pressing issues surrounding privacy and personal data have made their way to the centre of the political boxing ring. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick... [28 Mar 2008]
Fiber to the Home Architectures
White Paper Deployments in Europe include mostly point-to-point and ring-based topologies employing Ethernet technology, referred to as Ethernet FTTH, along with a small number of PON FTTH deployments. The interest in deployments of Fiber To The Home (FTTH) is... [24 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically from laptops... [10 Mar 2008]
