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Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday

Comment Q is for QoS It's day one proper of the Congress and the queues just got tails. Long tails. I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited throng and get my seat at the big name keynotes.

Tags: mobile world congress, china, john, talk

[13 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast

Comment Q is for QoS Written on the London-Ipswich train and sent via a wi-fi signal picked up at the bottom of a field in a remote part of Suffolk, UK. During the past 15 years I have seen one generation of laptop after another get faster and more...

Tags: wi-fi, mobile, laptops, thin client

[28 Jan 2008]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment Q is for QoS The auction of the last great chunk of US broadcast spectrum gets under way in the new year. This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield.

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?

Comment While traffic density improved again, the really big win was in signal fidelity and quality of service (QoS). Repeater spacing went from 2km to 40km or more, capacity projections went off the scale, power demands dropped and everything, including...

Tags: ngn

[02 May 2007]

Unwired: The tiny screen problem

Comment Q is for QoS It's usually labelled 'Device Convergence' but perhaps we should call it by its proper name: 'Doing more stuff on fewer, cleverer toys'. Unwired's Richard Leyland explains. It's a major battleground for technology vendors in both...

Tags: convergence, wi-fi, wimax

[12 Dec 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Fat cat telcos are killing the net

Comment The net as it stands is a wonderfully chaotic place, fundamentally incapable of providing any form of real-time service - voice, video, any form of instant messaging or human interaction - with any guaranteed quality of service (QoS).

Tags: net neutrality, telcos

[07 Jul 2006]

VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means

Comment But IP, of course, was not designed to provide a guaranteed quality of service (QoS) to the traffic it carries; it was originally designed as a way of diversely routing data to ensure redundancy in case network nodes were being jammed, crashed or...

Tags: voip

[10 Feb 2005]

Wireless: The new hotspot for VoIP

Comment To overcome this, a network needs to have 'Quality of Service' (QoS), a technology which guarantees bandwidth to time sensitive applications like voice and tells others to wait their turn. There are various standards initiatives on their way which...

Tags: voice over ip, voip, wi-fi

[18 Jan 2005]

Q&A: What will be at the centre of the digital home?

Comment You need to have QoS (Quality of service) for voice, images and data. D-Link Systems' mooted path to digital nirvana throws a spanner in the works for computer makers and consumer electronics giants. Company CEO Ken Kao believes neither the PC nor...

[17 Dec 2004]

ITU03: Final analysis

Comment Other key themes included wireless - both putting on the map technologies such as WiMAX and reaching consensus on the place of Wi-Fi and 3G - voice over IP (VoIP), the commodification of some technologies and delivering others with increased...

[17 Oct 2003]

IP over everything?

Comment We've already launched our IP VPN QoS network and that is connected using SDH infrastructure but uses Cisco Systems core routing technology," says Rob Thomas, product marketing director at C&W. Simon Marshall reports.

Tags: at&t, atm, equant, ip

[19 Aug 2003]

Managing convergence - the key points every company should know about

Comment It is possible to avoid some of these problems by using strict policy management and most current routers come with quality of service (QoS) features that allow businesses to prioritise voice and video packets.

Tags: audit, auditing, plewes, convergence

[14 May 2003]

Entrepreneurs 2000-2002: The 'where are they now?' file

Comment When we spoke to Charlie Muirhead in September 2000 he was heavily involved in angel investment network company iGabriel while still keeping an eye on his first start-up, networking QoS venture Orchestream, as one of its directors.

[12 Apr 2002]

Has Gigabit Ethernet come of age?

Comment As a LAN technology, Ethernet is often accused of packet-loss, bottlenecking problems and a lack of quality of service (QoS). As an overall solution to deliver multi-services, the architecture is just not ready," Rufener said of Gigabit Ethernet...

[30 Oct 2001]

Ipv6: An acronym to shake the networked world

Comment QoS also goes with ToS," added Martens. It supports Quality of Service (QoS) and thus increasingly important real time communication for multimedia. There seem to be many good reasons for introducing the next generation of IP (internet protocol).

[19 Mar 2001]

The best of 'Reader Comments': Killer ASPs and India's IT resources

Comment Until meaningful QoS implementations are available over the public net and through private corporate WANs, ASPs can't deliver anything close to the level of availability required by corporates. The last seven days have seen some controversial...

[10 Nov 2000]

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