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VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means
Comment Transmission control protocol (TCP) arranges them in the right order. Ever wondered how IP telephony actually works? An IP packet is formed when a router chops up a stream of digital information into manageable chunks. [10 Feb 2005]
Devil's Advocate: In support of open standards
Comment This is why the OSI communications standards are long gone while TCP/IP has become dominant. Doing so will lead to better products for us all, says Martin Brampton. As I wrote last week, Ian Watmore sees government as if it were a conglomerate in... [26 Oct 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Security software - can we get it right?
Comment TCP/IP achieved this but the OSI communications protocols largely did not. But creating new standards and technologies is quite a difficult undertaking. Martin Brampton asks: are we up to the task? Big companies are grumbling that they are not... [17 Aug 2004]
Through the Fog: Who should protect you from viruses?
Comment While taking steps to safeguard against email borne viruses is important, it is also critical to appreciate that many attacks nowadays are 'blended', meaning that the virus will persist in trying alternative entry points - such as direct open TCP... [08 Oct 2003]
Q&A: Vint Cerf on VoIP
Comment Indeed, Cerf, who created the TCP/IP protocol that defines online communication now spends a good part of his time focused on VoIP, the cheaper form of telephony, expecting it to permanently alter the telephone industry [12 Sep 2003]
Powerline coming of age
Comment The highly efficient modems and the use of TCP/IP mean that the data delivery to individual users can cope with high endemic interference levels before bandwidth is significantly eroded. For a number of years we have been promised data services... [05 Sep 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Linux in utility computing, Ellison the visionary and hotspot models
Comment The easiest way to see the need for a standard OS is to consider why and how TCP/IP became a standard. Their infrastructure initiatives are all quite similar and aimed at the idea of virtualising the hardware layer. [22 Jul 2003]
Fly me to the moon (and let us email round the stars)
Comment Vint Cerf (a member of the IPNSIG and one of the inventors of the TCP/IP protocol) has said: "The IPN can be thought of as a network of internets but it is even more general because it is OK for some of the components not to be internet-based. [19 Jul 2001]
Avaya stands alone, OpenVMS boosted, and Oracle takes its own medicine.
Comment The TCP/IP Services, DECforms and Transaction Router products have been enhanced to provide the support required to build ebusiness applications. Lucent spin-off Avaya started trading independently last week and hasn't done too well so far. [09 Oct 2000]
XML: The future of...everything?
Comment As Simon Phipps, chief Java evangelist at IBM, says: "XML is the next step in the sequence of technologies that started with TCP/IP, grew through Web browsers and has currently reached Java. The IT industry has a new infatuation: extensible mark-up... [26 Nov 1998]
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