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Cheat Sheet There has also been concern expressed about the sheer volume of traffic that iPlayer will ultimately generate which some fear could cripple broadband networks. Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service.
[05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet They were introduced by the OGC in 2000 to track the progress of government and public sector projects using a traffic-light system of red, amber or green to indicate their status at each stage of their lifespan.
[07 Jun 2007]
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 Conversely, in other situations, the network's performance can actually be improved by balancing traffic and routing it around congested nodes. Go on then, mesh networking - why should I care? What's so exciting?
[24 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet It has been used around the world for ticketing, toll roads and in fast-food chains, to get human traffic moving faster. Contactless payments (CP) - what's that, then? Rather than hand over cash, sign your name or even do the chip and PIN thing...
[11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet Users can implement virtualisation with software, as a hardware-software hybrid appliance that sits somewhere in the fabric and redirects all the input/output traffic to the appropriate device, or within the storage array itself.
[27 May 2002]
Cheat Sheet Most pundits recommend wireless network traffic should be encrypted but people are a bit lazy. PKI is mostly used by banks but wise folk claim we'll all be using it to secure all our digital traffic soon.
[14 Feb 2002]
Cheat Sheet It's a problem because it clogs up mail servers and ISPs and gets in the way of genuine internet traffic. What is it? It's unwanted email. The electronic form of the postal junk mail you receive every morning.
[03 Jan 2002]
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