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The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up The social networking phenomenon of 2007 and Web 2.0 poster child has reported the first fall in its traffic in the UK since measuring began in 2006. It certainly could be in the UK if the latest traffic figures are to be believed. [22 Feb 2008]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment In theory the internet treats all traffic equally but despite the high-minded claims of the so called 'net neutralists', it is possible to buy high priority bandwidth on any shared network, including those privately owned elements of the internet. [09 Jul 2007]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment Enterprises should deploy the voice traffic on a separate virtual LAN, or VLAN, from the data traffic. The first step for VoIP security is to follow data networking best practice. Ovum analyst Graham Titterington says: "Most security in VoIP is a... [04 Apr 2007]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment NOW also estimates that the 500,000 annual traffic accidents cost the German economy €34bn. The C2C CC is rising to the challenge set by an EC eSafety programme that is seeking to reduce road fatalities by 50 per cent by 2010 and to further improve... [21 Jun 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Branching out
Comment Routers designed for small businesses take care of access and content security as well as directing network traffic - this is called 'unified threat management'. As more and more organisations with large numbers of branches turn to IP networks to... [30 Jun 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: This is the way Nortel returns to the grand campaign
Comment Then when that demand dried up, when no traffic came to fill most of the operators' pipes, a crash ensued. But optical networking is a shadow of its former self. A very sober report I received today even read: 'This is the way… We secure the total... [15 Dec 2004]
Analysis: The network is the security
Comment Like existing tools from Arbor Networks, Mazu Networks and Q1 Labs, the network will create a model of 'normal' network flow to create a better understanding of things like server traffic, protocol patterns and port usage. [14 Jul 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Out-of-the-box options
Comment Appliances are ideal for network-based applications: you plug two or more wires into the appliance and the software running on it can decide what to do with the traffic that wants to pass through it. Switches that control the traffic on local area... [09 Jul 2004]
Q&A: Vint Cerf on VoIP
Comment The way you eventually have to make money is by adding value to the traffic, which means adding new services. MCI seems to be taking the lead using the internet protocol (IP) to direct telephone traffic, rather than the regular circuit-switched... [12 Sep 2003]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment The storage traffic requirement is massive,” says Derek Granath, director of hardware products at leading SAN switch vendor Brocade. IP is boosting the distance limitations of traditional storage networking technologies, claims Anthony Plewes. [02 Sep 2003]
IP over everything?
Comment He's wearing a T-shirt with the message 'IP Over Everything', an evangelical show of enthusiasm for the protocol behind almost all of today's network traffic. However IP traffic is transported - either over SDH or an IP overlay network - the aim is... [19 Aug 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Talk is just more data
Comment Communications traffic is digitised, if it is not already a digital service, before making use of network links. Martin Brampton contends we are still some way from networking nirvana. It is a considerable challenge to provide the same service... [19 May 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Counterintuitive networks
Comment Bunching, waves and traffic jams turn out to be a naturally occurring phenomenon in all forms of network. For road traffic you can increase the throughput by adding extra lanes, adopt higher speed limits, restrict or deter the number of vehicles... [25 Feb 2003]
World Cup 2002: The IT chief speaks to silicon.com
Comment It's also been the first time we've brought the TV traffic onto the IT network and I'm very proud of that. How has traffic been compared to what you expected? we've had five to six times the traffic of the two main Salt Lake City [Winter Olympics... [27 Jun 2002]
MPLS: The icing on the networking cake?
Comment Iain Stevenson, networking analyst at Ovum, put it like this: "MPLS is a mechanism for labelling traffic flows to define a path through a complex network. There are three main functions of MPLS, quality of service, traffic engineering - which... [28 Nov 2001]
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