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RSS edgeSupply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions
White Paper Companies in process industries now widely realize that they must restructure their supply chains to take out costs and maintain their customer service edge. Companies in Process Industries (including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage... [01 Aug 2008]
An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge
White Paper This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. [31 Jul 2008]
Highways Agency drives on with traffic tech
News Video: Heathrow T5's cutting-edge baggage tech The Highways Agency has awarded a £96m contract for the expansion of its active traffic management technology to Carillion. The scheme has been trialled on the M42 south of Birmingham, with the hard... [28 Jul 2008]
Take stock for tough times
Comment Retail sales figures out today show the sharpest monthly decline for decades. History suggests those retailers that continue to focus on innovation now will emerge as winners, says Ged Keogh-Peters. For retailers, now is the time to be looking at... [24 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Mobile operator Orange UK is hoping the Eee has the edge over Apple's touchscreen mobile as it has stepped up to iPhone-wielding rival O2 - which is Apple's partner for the iPhone in the UK - and launched a range of mobile broadband packages which... [23 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News The island has courted large IT suppliers, such as O2, acted as a test bed for bleeding edge technologies and is building up a state-of-the-art communications infrastructure into the bargain. Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in... [23 Jul 2008]
Real-Time Contact Centers Build Customer Intimacy and Improve Profitability
White Paper Companies seeking a competitive edge must convert their reactive, cost-oriented contact centers into predictive, revenue generating, real-time profit centers. 10 Steps to Building a Real-Time Contact Center: [23 Jul 2008]
QoS and Delivery Context in Rule-Based Edge Services
White Paper As the Internet grows, more and more content distribution networks are deploying services at the network edge to effectively perform content adaptation. In a wireless web environment where bandwidth resource is expensive, edge services requires... [18 Jul 2008]
ScanSoft's Document Management Solution Gives Company Competitive Edge
White Paper LandAmerica deployed Xerox Document Centre and ScanSoft's Scan to PC Desktop Deluxe solution to maintain their competitive edge. With over 125 years of experience in the title insurance industry, LandAmerica clearly understands the complexities of... [18 Jul 2008]
GameRail Gives Online Gamers a High-Performance Edge
White Paper Missouri-based GameRail connects more than 34 million homes in the continental United States, Alaska, and Canada through partnerships with top national and regional DSL and cable broadband providers. The company wanted to deliver a flawless online... [18 Jul 2008]
Simulation of an Advanced QoS Protocol for Mass Content
White Paper This paper describes a new network device to be located in network edge nodes. The device can deal with congestion conditions that may arise when, for example, a home or SME customer requests too many simultaneous flows to be forwarded down a DSL... [18 Jul 2008]
QoS Issues With the L-Store Distributed File System
White Paper As the flood of data associated with leading edge instruments, sensors, and simulations continues to escalate, the challenge of supporting the distributed collaborations that depend on these huge flows becomes increasingly daunting. [18 Jul 2008]
NEC and San Francisco 49ers Team Up for End-to-End Converged Solution
White Paper To give the 49ers the competitive edge it needs, the team met with ATI, an authorized NEC telecommunications dealer. After evaluating the 49er's existing infrastructure and equipment, ATI recommended that the club integrate NEC America Inc.s (NEC... [18 Jul 2008]
Threshold-Based Burst Assembly Policies for QoS Support in Optical Burst-Switched Networks
White Paper Bursts are assembled at the network edge by collecting packets that have the same QoS requirements. This paper proposes a threshold-based burst assembly scheme in conjunction with a burst segmentation policy to provide QoS in Optical Burst Switched... [18 Jul 2008]
QoS in Wireless Mesh Networks: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Roadmap to Its Realization
White Paper Today's cutting edge standards supporting WMNs (e.g. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have the potential to lead to a disruptive change in the landscape of wireless communications. The vision to support self-engineered wireless network infrastructures... [18 Jul 2008]
