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RSS gradeXerox Canada Makes the Grade at the University of Calgary
White Paper University of Calgary's administrators came together and developed a concrete five-year expansion plan that would manage a student enrolment that is expected to increase from 28,000 to 35,000 students by 2010. [18 Jul 2008]
End-to-End QoS Control Architectures From a Wholesale and Retail Perspective: Benefits and Challenges
White Paper Providing an equal or better grade of service compared to legacy networks is essential for an NGN operator as insufficient service quality severely reduces the value of the network. The Bandwidth Manager provides end-to-end multi-service QoS... [18 Jul 2008]
Metropolitan Ethernet Network: A Move From LAN to MAN
White Paper Despite these improvements, Ethernet is still restricted to local area networks, and is not ready to become a carrier grade technology for wider areas. This paper will introduce the movement from basic Ethernet to the carrier grade Ethernet for MENs. [18 Jul 2008]
Using Dynamic Optical Networking for High-Speed Access
White Paper Through the use of switched optical circuits the number of hosts that can be supported on a metropolitan area core ring network can be increased significantly at an acceptable grade of service. While LAN and wide-area network link capacities keep... [18 Jul 2008]
Lightpath-Level Protection Versus Connection-Level Protection for Carrier-Grade Ethernet in a Mixed-Line-Rate Telecom Network
White Paper The paper studies the problem of designing reliable and cost-efficient high-rate (100 Gbit/s) carrier-grade Ethernet in a multi-line-rate telecom network under signal transmission-range constraints. Ethernet is a success story in Local Area... [04 Jul 2008]
Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade
White Paper Off late, virtually all new end-user and most new machine-to-machine applications are designed around the Internet Protocol (IP). Within 99 percent of Local Area Networks (LANs), Ethernet is used to carry those IP packets. [04 Jul 2008]
The Bi-Mesh Survivable Network - Fast Recovery From Node Failure in MPLS Enabled Networks
White Paper To provide reliable carrier-grade service, MPLS-based recovery procedures must be able to quickly address any link or node failure. Today's converged networks are increasingly based on MPLS technology. [04 Jul 2008]
MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 3.0
White Paper This white paper describes MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 3.0, which, in addition to the features provided by MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 2.1, provides new features useful to developers of carrier grade products, such as... [03 Jul 2008]
The Worldwide Market for Redundant and High Availability Industrial-Grade Computers
White Paper This white paper addresses the worldwide market for redundant and High Availability industrial-grade computers. Redundant and high availability computer systems comprise three general categories. They are Computers with Redundant Slot CPU Boards... [03 Jul 2008]
Voice over IP: Guaranteeing Carrier Grade Performance
White Paper The main objective of this paper is to provide insight into the intricacies of designing Voice over IP networks of carrier grade quality. This white paper presents a typical VoIP architecture and then suggests a framework for testing VoIP networks. [03 Jul 2008]
Spotlight on Carrier Grade Linux: Open Standards, Solutions, and Compliance
White Paper The Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 specification represents a tremendous step forward for the telecommunications, networking, and data delivery industries in the move towards low cost, COTS-based platforms. Concurrent with evolving hardware standards such... [03 Jul 2008]
Challenges in Building Carrier Grade Convergence Products
White Paper This risk awareness has led to greater need for making convergence products meet the "carrier grade" mark. This paper is an attempt to define the term Carrier Grade as applicable to convergence products and highlight the issues involved in making... [03 Jul 2008]
Carrier-Grade Media Servers for Next-Generation Enhanced Services
White Paper Next-generation enhanced services are especially significant. Carriers and service providers are attracted to the next-generation architectures for three reasons. First, next-generation architectures lower the capital and operational costs of the... [03 Jul 2008]
Mainline and the University of Georgia Make the Grade
White Paper Registering for college classes, changing schedules, and processing student paperwork can be difficult for both students and administration - a fact that had not escaped the attention of the University of Georgia. [03 Jul 2008]
Proven Carrier-Grade Resilience for End-to-End Convergence Solutions
White Paper Forward-thinking service providers are seeking to capitalize on the advantages of IP for converging voice, data, and multimedia services on a single unified, cost-effective core infrastructure. But despite all the obvious advantages of convergence... [03 Jul 2008]
