traffic network in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up It certainly could be in the UK if the latest traffic figures are to be believed. 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. [22 Feb 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment What they're talking about is prioritised traffic, 24/7 support, guaranteed uptime and so on and so forth - so if there are any challenges, those are the areas that we should be focused on - are focusing on. [21 Feb 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment For businesses, this geo-targeting can improve click-through rates and increase revenues from website traffic. The technology determines the geographic location and network connection data for each IP address accessing a website. [09 Jan 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment It's 8pm on a Sunday night and for some unknown reason traffic in your computing infrastructure is deviating from normal. Management and control sessions can be easily analysed to look for after-hours access that doesn't match normal usage patterns... [10 Dec 2007]
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]
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). Hard-wired interconnections are replaced by programmability, all of the copper network weaknesses such as water ingress and people-induced... [02 May 2007]
Brampton Factor: Network convergence is no simple task
Comment Assuming a justification has been made for carrying voice or video across a data network, this type of traffic needs to have priority over low-grade traffic such as email and general web browsing. It is also doubtful whether the internet could cope... [17 Apr 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. To protect against this, enterprises need to use security such as intrusion prevention systems and have a well-segmented network using VLANs. [04 Apr 2007]
Do you know what's happening on your network?
Comment As such businesses must get a lot smarter about looking for performance issues and identifying rogue network traffic, applications or devices. Will Sturgeon sheds some light on how to make sure you're in control of nefarious network traffic. [28 Mar 2007]
The biggest VoIP security threats - and how to stop them
Comment Some routers can also throttle the inflow of traffic to stop the network from being completely flooded. While few DoS attacks currently specifically target VoIP systems, the real-time nature of voice traffic means they have a massive impact. [22 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment Network providers and ISPs can do a lot to isolate and render useless the bot generators - in short they can block their traffic at source or mid-stream. Millions of unprotected machines across the planet that are wide open to viral attack have... [19 Feb 2007]
The techs SMEs need for converged telecoms
Comment However, carrying real-time traffic such as voice or video over a wi-fi network is not a straightforward step and many businesses will need to upgrade their network to cope. This will prioritise voice calls on the network over other data traffic... [04 Jan 2007]
Q&A: Inmarsat CEO on catching the data wave
Comment Currently data rather than voice is Inmarsat's cash cow, accounting for 75 per cent of the company's traffic and 55 per cent of its revenue, growing at 15 per cent per year. But rather than set its sights on milking consumers, Inmarsat believes the... [27 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Fat cat telcos are killing the net
Comment And in phase one they would like to groom the traffic carried to increase the efficiency and the earnings per packet. Ironically the internet then starts to look like a circuit-switched system à la the old telephone network. [07 Jul 2006]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment The next step in automotive engineering is using radar and ultrasound to detect other objects and traffic flow characteristics. NOW also estimates that the 500,000 annual traffic accidents cost the German economy €34bn. [21 Jun 2006]
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