core technology
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News It utilises Nortel mesh technology, with an initial infrastructure that includes eight core nodes and 50 access nodes, to bring wi-fi to the major parts of the island and also indoors. Tourists and locals on the Greek Island of Patmos will soon be... [24 Jul 2008]
Gartner Analyst paper: Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007
White Paper Good governance of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is becoming a core competency. While no vendor yet offers a best-in-class service-oriented architecture governance technology set, best of breed is preferable to best of brand, when... [24 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Small business users have not been forgotten, but Orange reckons their hardware needs are a bit more hardcore as it is offering three HP laptops, complete with Windows Vista: the HP 6730s (Intel Celeron), HP 6730s (Intel Core 2 Duo) and HP 6730b... [23 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Injection Control Module for Optical Packet Switching Fabrics
White Paper The insertion of OPS networks to alleviate the electronic bottleneck has been proposed for a range of systems including core routers, local- and storage-area networks as well as high-performance computing systems. [18 Jul 2008]
School Network Upgrade Ensures Flexibility & Security Using Allied Telesis Switching Technology
White Paper They wanted to provide a secure platform for supporting pupil's own computers alongside (but secure from) the core school network. At the core, the SwitchBlade Layer 3 chassis switch offers the school a network solution that can scale as the school... [18 Jul 2008]
On the Capacity of Optical Networks: A Framework for Comparing Different Transport Architectures
White Paper Motivated by the incommensurate complexity/cost of comparable transport architectures, the paper investigates the dependence of their relative capacity performance on the number of switch ports per fiber at core nodes. [18 Jul 2008]
QoS Guaranteeing Concepts in VIRTUOUS and FUTURE IST Projects
White Paper In the scope of this paper, experiments for QoS provision strategy for packet oriented S-UMTS services researched in the IST VIRTUOUS and the IST FUTURE projects are introduced where different QoS guaranteeing mechanisms are presented by setting... [18 Jul 2008]
The Economist: A new mandate for IT
White Paper Corporate leaders, however, are raising the bar: they expect IT's core mission to expand from cost-cutting to enabling revenue generation within a short period of time. Innovation is no stranger to the information technology function. [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo It uses 7,832 AMD Barcelona quad-core Opteron processors. Near the Oak Ridge supercomputer facility is this giant display, known as Everest, or Exploratory Visualisation Environment for Research in Science and Technology. [14 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment It's worth mentioning because now video is a core component of the silicon.com offering again - in fact yesterday we unveiled the first episode of a new show that I'm very proud of. Some mention old technology favourites: "Vendors stay faithful to... [11 Jul 2008]
Are the Business Models for IPSec and MPLS VPNs Competitive or Complimentary From a Service Provider's Perspective?
White Paper The authors are confident that MPLS is going to be the predominant technology run in the core and MPLS VPNs will be used to connect various PE routers. Companies will run MPLS in their core, and will connect their clients to their Points of... [11 Jul 2008]
NAV CANADA Takes Advantage of IBM Rational AppScan Software to Address the Security and compliance of Its Online Applications
White Paper NAV CANADA deployed a comprehensive solution - based on IBM Rational AppScan software - that automates security and compliance-related issue testing of its core Web applications, and that easily integrates into its software development lifecycle. [11 Jul 2008]
Towards Stateless Core: Improving SIP Proxy Scalability
White Paper The IMS standard allows some core elements to be deployed as transaction stateful or stateless proxies. This paper examines the implementation of these core IMS proxies. The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specified the IP Multimedia... [11 Jul 2008]
Transitioning From IP-over-LANE/ATM to IP/MPLS Networks
White Paper Juniper Networks, Inc.leads the industry in IP routing technology with the world's largest service providers deploying Juniper Networks routers in the core and at the edge. Ultimately, a Juniper Networks IP network reduces costs by having the same... [10 Jul 2008]
Pioneers and Leaders Powers Rapid Business Expansion With Sun Solutions
White Paper P&L chose Sun solutions as the core of its IT infrastructure to maintain an efficient, cost-effective and reliable operation. For publisher, Pioneers and Leaders (publishers) Pte Ltd (P&L), technology is a crucial part of its business. [10 Jul 2008]
