M4
RSS M4Maxspeed Case Study: Mountaineer Gas
White Paper Mountaineer Gas is the largest local natural gas distribution company in West Virginia. To avoid the cost of installing a number of new high-end PCs, Mountaineer Gas decided to run the M4 software on a thin-client/server system. [03 Jul 2008]
M4 Network View Requirements and Logical MIB
White Paper This specification provides requirements on the network-view aspects of the M4 interface needed to support ATM network management, i.e.the management of aggregates of Network Elements such as subnetworks. [03 Jul 2008]
Network Management M4 Security Requirements and Logical MIB
White Paper This document specifies the security services for the management plane in form of functional requirements and the management of the security services for the user, control and management planes. The management of the security services is described... [03 Jul 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment What really matters when it comes to chosing an overseas location for your technology - skills, food, buildings, climate? Mark Kobayashi-Hillary offers some ideas. A couple of years ago at a technology conference in Budapest I remember the Czech... [03 Jun 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai. Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the outsourcing company's largest global development centre. [29 Apr 2008]
Photos: Satellites free the roads from snow and ice
Photo Satellites are spying on the Welsh roads to keep them free of ice for motorists. The cutting-edge Masternaut Three X telematics system allows a control centre - pictured above - to track 20 gritter lorries that keep a 178km stretch of the M4... [09 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008
Comment Written on the M4 motorway in England as I was driven from Taunton to Ipswich. Dispatched via a commercial wi-fi service from a roadside café We all do it every year - resolve to do things better to improve our lot and that of our friends and family. [03 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers
Comment Written at the Membury Service Station on the M4 Motorway whilst transiting from Cardiff to Woodbridge. Dispatched to silicon.com via public wi-fi. In the middle of a legal trial involving technology, a high court judge declares he doesn't know... [20 Aug 2007]
A photo guide to London's wi-fi pubs
Photo The Harcourt Arms - 32 Harcourt St, W1H 4HX A truly excellent pub tucked away down the side streets to the south of Marylebone Station and a short distance from Edgware Road and Paddington. So if you find yourself killing time before a journey back... [31 Aug 2006]
Watch motorway traffic-jam clips on your mobile
News Drivers will be able to download video footage from Highways Agency CCTV cameras onto their mobile phones as part of a 12-month trial. The footage was previously only available to road contractors, the police and emergency services. [11 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Goodbye VHS
Comment Written and edited on the A12, M25, M4 and M5 heading to Plymouth and dispatched to silicon.com from Taunton Deane motorway services via wi-fi. This Christmas we had to say goodbye to an ageing friend - the VHS player! [03 Jan 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in public sector IT
News From mega-contracts to open source and ID cards, Steve Ranger looks back at the highlights of the year for public sector IT and makes some predictions for what to expect in 2006. The year started well, with the United Nations ranking the UK's e... [19 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.12.05
Round-Up It seems organised crime has tired of running drugs and guns and has even decided to put a hold for now on the rigging of sport contests, bank heists and even good old-fashioned protection rackets. Because there's a new money-spinner in town. [16 Dec 2005]
UK motorways to get £490m PFI telecoms upgrade
News The Highways Agency (HA) has signed a £490m private finance initiative (PFI) deal to upgrade the telecommunications network that links all the information systems across the UK road network. The 10-year National Roads Telecommunications Services... [19 Sep 2005]
High-tech road signs for M4 silicon corridor
News Work will begin next month on a £15m project to install 43 high-tech motorway message signs on the M3 and the M4, beginning with a communications upgrade. The new signs, which can display text and picture messages, are due to come into use by the... [27 Jun 2005]
