data networks network in news
Orange beefs up 3G network for Northerners
News Peter Marsden, vice president IT and networks at Orange, said in a statement: "We are investing heavily to improve our network and this investment is one step closer to our goal of becoming the best UK network for coverage and reliability by 2009. [04 Aug 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News Local networks also create their own local worst-offender lists (LWOLs) but these aren't capable of dealing with attackers that are encountered by that network for the first time. In formulating HPB for a network 'A', we treat attack sources that... [28 Jul 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News Carriers should therefore open up their networks and offer cross-network interoperability to defuse this threat, said ABI. Bonte said in a statement: "As the reliability and performance of mobile enterprise solutions improves and the concerns about... [17 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News Most organisations place the BES within key networks, such as email servers, giving it privileged access to other computers on that network. A 'high' severity flaw affecting how BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) opens PDF attachments could be... [17 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News He said it may be less than two decades before commercial networks catch up: "Video and other media services are going to push the speed of consumer network connections up as the demand is going to be huge. [15 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Protocol Buffers could be useful for other organisations that need an efficient way to move structured data around a network, for instance in large clusters or data centres, DiBona said. Various other methods exist for passing encoded data over... [11 Jul 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Taking this approach means the tech could be used to help build out next generation networks - providing coverage and capacity quickly, and at a lower cost, than if an operator had to construct a fully fledged network before launching any services. [30 Jun 2008]
Bank invests in low latency monitoring
News Global investment bank Credit Suisse is rolling out a monitoring system for its low-latency network. The CorvilNet Latency Management System, supplied by Corvil and implemented by BT, allows network administrators to specify latency benchmarks and... [23 Jun 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial technological, creative and... [23 Jun 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News But they could just as well prove a network nightmare, warns industry analyst Berg Insight. The analyst said growth will be driven by consumer demand for ubiquitous internet access - and mobile broadband laptops will therefore not replace fixed... [20 Jun 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Vulnerabilities on UK company and public sector networks grew from 19 last year to 21 this year according to security analyst NTA Monitor and 87 per cent of data breaches could have been avoided by regular patching and other precautions according... [19 Jun 2008]
Orange to cut 450 jobs
News In terms of infrastructure the company plans to accelerate its high speed data network roll out. Around 450 new 2G base stations will be rolled out while there will be further investment in the company's 3G and HSDPA networks. [04 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News Network congestion: Roughly two per cent of machines have peer-to-peer software installed and the resulting high data traffic can clog up corporate networks. Unprotected computers: Two to three per cent of computers studied had no antivirus... [29 May 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News Folkes said: "Not only will we get savings from converging the voice and data we will also be bringing the separate global networks together. We are radically altering the capacity of the data network. [28 May 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News The Forum said its members have agreed a single common approach for integrating femtocells into mobile networks via broadband. Femtocells are currently only being deployed in limited trials - but mobile operators have dreams of much larger... [21 May 2008]
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