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RSS deployment andHealth trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust (RUH) has stopped the deployment of the Cerner Millennium electronic care records system - part of the £12.7bn national NHS IT modernisation programme. A spokesman for the Southern Programme for IT confirmed... [22 Jul 2008]
Number of free ATMs to increase by a third
News The minister praised Link, the operator of the UK cash machine network for its contribution to the initiative in identifying applicable areas for deployment and in clear signs on ATMs that charge warning users they must pay to withdraw cash. [18 Jul 2008]
Wireless Network Quality of Service
White Paper QoS gives IT managers complete power over their entire mobile deployment by letting them shape and control traffic across any network that their users may connect to. Quality of Service capabilities are one of the final building blocks for a... [18 Jul 2008]
Optical Networks and the Future of Broadband Services
White Paper This analysis highlights the increased flexibility and scalability of DWDM networks, which lowers the deployment costs of such networks in light of growing and uncertain demand. The evolution of broadband services will depend on the widespread... [18 Jul 2008]
Middleware and Management Support for Programmable QoS-Network Architectures
White Paper This paper focuses on management and middleware support for incremental updating of code and policies on various levels of granularity in time and space and on code deployment in vastly large distributed systems such as a networking infrastructure. [18 Jul 2008]
End-to-End QoS Control Architectures From a Wholesale and Retail Perspective: Benefits and Challenges
White Paper Also, cost-effectiveness and rapid service deployment are two important properties making the NGN attractive to both operators and their customers. The Bandwidth Manager provides end-to-end multi-service QoS control that ensures sufficient grade of... [18 Jul 2008]
QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
White Paper Further, unique characteristics of WSNs, such as extremely resource-constrained sensors, large-scale random deployment, and novel data-centric communication protocols, pose unprecedented challenges in the area of QoS support in WSNs. [18 Jul 2008]
High Availability and Scalability of the Domain Boundary Controller
White Paper The paper elaborates on what is actually meant by high-availability and scalability, how both are implemented in the DBC, how deployment should be planned, and what needs to be taken into account for configuring a highly available and scalable... [18 Jul 2008]
Iowa Telecom Streamlines DSL Deployment With Netopia 2200 Series Gateways
White Paper In search for a DSL router that could meet all of their deployment needs, Iowa Telecom evaluated the Netopia 2241N- product, a single port, 10/100 Ethernet-wired ADSL2+ router with a USB port. Iowa Telecom wanted to position itself in order to... [18 Jul 2008]
Connection Management in Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks
White Paper The deployment of this technology will depend on successful network management protocols. The paper surveys centralized, distributed and hybrid connection setup mechanisms, each of which attempts to optimize the connection setup process. [18 Jul 2008]
For a Leading Architectural Firm IP Communications Is a Blueprint for Success
White Paper After reviewing solutions from three major providers, Cohos Evamy chose to deploy CallManager Express from Cisco Systems, with Cisco Unity Express to support the new office and serve as the firm's first step toward a full IP Communications... [18 Jul 2008]
Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
White Paper Many cities are seeking ways to facilitate the deployment of a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network (WiMAN) based on wifitechnology. City leaders must often balance competing goals, including the desire to maximize the area in which wireless services... [18 Jul 2008]
Performance Analysis of QoS Supported by Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) Mechanism in IEEE 802.11e
White Paper With fast deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), the ability of WLAN to support real time services with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements has come into fore. Its performance is evaluated under real time audio and video... [18 Jul 2008]
Scalable Real-Time Gateway Assignment in Mobile Mesh Networks
White Paper The perception of future Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) deployment and usage is rapidly evolving. In particular, in a large WMN, the dynamic assignment of users to Internet gateways will become a complex traffic engineering problem that will need to... [18 Jul 2008]
GlueQoS: Middleware to Sweeten Quality-of-Service Policy Interactions
White Paper Non-functional requirements (related to Quality-of-Service (QoS) issues such as security, reliability, and performance) vary with deployment context, and sometimes even at run-time, complicating the task of re-using components. [17 Jul 2008]
