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Cheat Sheet: BT's 21CN
Cheat Sheet It's the largest overhaul of BT's core network to date - instead of using traditional PSTN (pubic switched telephone network) lines to shunt traffic across the network, it's switching to a single, all-IP (internet protocol) network instead, which... [14 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: IPTV
Cheat Sheet IPTV stands for internet protocol television - or TV through your broadband connection rather than through an aerial or cable. IPTV. Is this another new TV channel on my digibox? No. It's more likely IPTV will be something to challenge your current... [27 Mar 2006]
Cheat Sheet: VoIP
Cheat Sheet It's short for Voice over Internet Protocol. VoIP? What's that stand for? And what is that exactly? It's the practice of using the internet - instead of standard telephone lines - to carry voice communications. [15 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: The A-Z of 802.11
Cheat Sheet Inter-access point roaming protocol. Wireless networking is part of the furniture these days but the zoo of standards still baffles the non-specialist. This can in part be put down to the 802.11 wireless LAN working group, which has 250 supporting... [04 Apr 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Bluetooth
Cheat Sheet It's a top end, high performance protocol and can shift data at ultra-broadband rates of 54Mbps as opposed to 11Mbps for 802.11b and Bluetooth version 1.1's pathetic 721Kbps. It's a protocol that allows devices such as mobile phones, laptop... [12 Mar 2002]
Cheat sheet: Mobile and wireless security
Cheat Sheet Most WLANs can secure data using the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol. OK, let's start with mobile security. Why should I care? I mean there's very little I can do with my phone at the moment except call my wife to record the football. [14 Feb 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Web services
Cheat Sheet The most important aspect of web services is the basic protocols: XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) and WSDL (Web Services Description Language). [31 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Cookies
Cheat Sheet A cookie records user preferences by using HTTP, the web's transfer protocol. So tell us, what is a cookie then? A cookie is information that any website can put on your PC's hard disk so it can remember something about you at a later time. [29 Nov 2001]
Cheat Sheet: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Cheat Sheet By the mid-90s - having beaten off Token Ring as the protocol of choice - it won out against HP-backed VG AnyLan to become the de facto 100Mbps technology. As the name suggests this is the Ethernet networking protocol built for speed. [31 Oct 2001]
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