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Photos: When celebrities and CIOs sleep out
Photo The annual Byte Night sleep out in aid of Action for Children took place last week. The event aims to raise £500,000 with different sleep outs around the country. Here the IT crowd in London prepare for a night sleeping... [10 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: When CIO becomes Charity Illumination Officer
Comment The annual Byte Night sleep out in aid of Action for Children took place last Friday, on a cold but thankfully dry night. The silicon.comrades team of CIOs have done an amazing job of raising funds for... [07 Oct 2008]
MPLS-Aware NetFlow
White Paper A flow is a unidirectional set of packets (IP or MPLS) that arrives at the router on the same subinterface, has the same source and destination IP addresses, has the same Layer 4 protocol, the same TCP/UDP source and destination ports,... [01 Oct 2008]
Editor's Blog: Hoping for a dry Friday
Comment This Friday sees the 10th annual Byte Night, an IT industry charity sleep-out that aims to raise £500,000 to help homeless youngsters. The main Byte Night event takes place in Potters Field near London... [30 Sep 2008]
Introduction to SONET
White Paper DS1 uses the AMI encoding scheme, it robs a bit from an eight bit byte for signaling. SONET stands for Synchronous Optical NETwork. The SONET format allows different types of formats to be transmitted on one line. [02 Sep 2008]
Designing Large-Scale Stub Networks With ODR
White Paper This feature takes an extra five bytes for each network or subnet, four bytes for the IP address, and one byte to advertise the subnet mask along with the IP. On-Demand Routing (ODR) is an enhancement to Cisco Discovery... [11 Aug 2008]
CIOs brave the cold for children's charity
News Byte Night is the IT industry's annual sleep out in aid of the charity, and this year sees the event celebrate its 10th anniversary. The main Byte Night event takes place in Potters Field near London... [07 Aug 2008]
Selecting WAN Capable Replication Technologies for Disaster Recovery Planning in Mid-Sized Organizations: A Guide for IS Managers
White Paper The tool, to be used during business continuity planning, explores the pros, cons, functionality and cost of replication technologies including: file, snapshot, CDP, Block and Byte replication. Large scale disasters... [04 Aug 2008]
ABW - Short-Timescale Passive Bandwidth Monitoring
White Paper Traditionally, used bandwidth is computed from router interface byte counters read by SNMP. Bandwidth usage monitoring is important for network troubleshooting and planning. This method only allows to check long-term... [11 Jul 2008]
Accelerating File Services Applications
White Paper Byte caching This white paper highlights two problems that stem from the design of Microsoft's Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol: The fact that CIFS is too chatty to run across a WAN, and the fact that CIFS... [03 Jul 2008]
HP-UX 9.x - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper
White Paper For alphabets of more than 256 characters, such as Traditional Chinese or Kanji, multi-byte character codes are required. Encoding schemes provide a set of rules for parsing a byte stream into a group of... [03 Jul 2008]
A Performance Modeling for the Proxy Caching Simulations
White Paper The hit rate and the byte-hit rate can be used for the measure of the performance. A simulation is the popular way of comparing the performance for the proxy cache algorithms. However, there are several different hits... [03 Jul 2008]
Proactive Web Caching with Cumulative Prefetching for Large Multimedia Data
White Paper The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme substantially reduces error rate and increases byte hit rate for large multimedia data. Web proxy caching provides an effective way to reduce access latency... [03 Jul 2008]
The TLS Protocol
White Paper One such encapsulated protocol, the TLS Handshake Protocol, allows the server and client to authenticate each other and to negotiate an encryption algorithm and cryptographic keys before the application protocol transmits or receives its... [03 Jul 2008]
Mirror, Mirror on the Web: A Study of Host Pairs with Replicated Content
White Paper At one extreme one can say that two sites are mirrored if their content is byte-wise identical. What exactly is mirroring? The term is often used in the Web research literature but a crisp definition is hard to come by. [03 Jul 2008]
