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RSS collegeSkills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News HP said the course has been specifically designed for part-time students - those who sign up will attend college for either one evening per week or alternate Saturdays - enabling people already in full-time employment to complete the degree over a... [06 Aug 2008]
Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News Youngsters are recruited to the scheme by Zenos' school and college outreach programmes. Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country learn about the joys of IT - and also plugging a skills gap for helpdesk support technicians in the region. [23 Jul 2008]
New England College Gets an Advanced Degree in Networking
White Paper After years of troubleshooting and creating workarounds for the college's network, Keene State College (KSC) decided to replace its aging networking infrastructure. KSC wanted to deploy high-end, proven networking technology that would help the... [18 Jul 2008]
Parc De Vilgenis College Selects Allied Telesis to Build a Powerful Network Connecting 3000 People and 11 Remote Buildings
White Paper Parc de Vilgenis College's network was a single non-segmented Layer 2 network. Parc de Vilgenis College's deployed Allied Telesis for its solution with a Layer 3 network, segmenting their network into Virtual LANs (VLANs) to optimize traffic flows... [18 Jul 2008]
Middleware and Management Support for Programmable QoS-Network Architectures
White Paper This paper focuses on management and middleware support for incremental updating of code and policies on various levels of granularity in time and space and on code deployment in vastly large distributed systems such as a networking infrastructure. [18 Jul 2008]
Benchmarking QoS on Router Interfaces of Gigabit Speeds and Beyond
White Paper This paper presents results of Quality of Service (QoS) performance evaluation of router interfaces. The paper uses the equipment of two main manufacturers: Cisco and Juniper. The technologies used are of Gigabit per second and above, namely... [17 Jul 2008]
Freedom4 spreads WiMax love to students
News WiMax provider Freedom4 is spreading long range wireless love to students in Warwickshire after teaming up with a local college. The company, formerly known as Pipex Wireless, has made Warwickshire College its learning partner - so students can now... [16 Jul 2008]
The Education Sector Rates Importance of IP Telephony Features, Management and Applications
White Paper The goal of the survey was to better understand the challenges of IP telephony within K-12 and college/university-level institutions and to learn how those challenges differ across these diverse types of educational institutions. [14 Jul 2008]
Automatic Configuration of Services for Security, Bandwidth, Throughput, and Availability
White Paper The process of efficiently deploying a complex system of services on a complex network of servers is tedious and error prone, with many properties to check and many possibilities to examine. Automated tools are needed to turn this into a humanly... [11 Jul 2008]
VPN-E - Remote Access Services
White Paper Increasingly, Durham College and UOIT employees require new forms of connectivity to increase their flow of information, knowledge and learning. Full time employees who are issued an institutional laptop and are required to occasionally work from... [10 Jul 2008]
A Methodology for Monitoring LSP Availability in MPLS Networks
White Paper Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is an evolving technology that can enable new service offerings such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to be delivered over an IP infrastructure. However, there is presently no mechanism for confirming... [10 Jul 2008]
New Challenges in Dynamic Load Balancing
White Paper Data partitioning and load balancing are important components of parallel computations. Many different partitioning strategies have been developed, with great effectiveness in parallel applications. But the load-balancing problem is not yet solved... [10 Jul 2008]
Hierarchical Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing for Scientific Computation
White Paper Cluster and grid computing has made hierarchical and heterogeneous computing systems increasingly common as target environments for large-scale scientific computation. A cluster may consist of a network of multiprocessors. [10 Jul 2008]
EquiLoad: A Load Balancing Policy for Clustered Web Servers
White Paper This paper presents a new strategy for the allocation of requests in clustered web servers, based on the size distribution of the requested documents. This strategy, EquiLoad, manages to achieve a balanced load to each of the back-end servers, and... [10 Jul 2008]
Analytic Modeling of Load Balancing Policies for Tasks With Heavy-Tailed Distributions
White Paper This paper presents an analytic methodology for the exact analysis of load balancing policies in distributed multi-server system conditioned on the fact that the duration of arriving tasks is best described by a heavy tail distribution. [10 Jul 2008]
