traffic management in news
Who will win the LTE vs WiMax grudge match?
News WiMax is available now, and has five QoS (Quality of service) levels which support different levels of prioritisation for different traffic types. However Phil Skeffington, associate at UK-based... [23 Oct 2008]
Broadband Britain: UK needs wireless patchwork
News Also included was the recommendation for ISPs to be forced to make their traffic-management policies clear to their customers, thus spurring them on to upgrade their networks in order to compete with one... [12 Sep 2008]
IBM blade slashes security threat
News The IBM blade aims to reduce security threats, such as viruses and denial-of-service attacks, by performing real-time analysis of network activity so malicious traffic can be diverted. It can also help telecommunications... [04 Sep 2008]
Carphone Warehouse does workforce management
News She said: "It was apparent that at peak traffic flow through the stores there was not enough staff. Carphone Warehouse has started the roll out of a workforce management system in a £1.5m project across... [13 Aug 2008]
Highways Agency drives on with traffic tech
News 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]
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. Unused PCs: One customer outsourcing the... [29 May 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News Another department airing its green credentials was the Highways Agency (HA), which manages 4,696 miles of trunk roads and motorway carrying one third of all traffic in the UK. And IBM has recently completed a review of... [09 May 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News On the subject of the sudden increase in 3G dongle usage in the UK, Patel said the trend "validates the market for mobile data" but said he was "convinced that, at some point, 3G will not be able to cope from a backhaul [and general... [09 May 2008]
Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving
News Webb said while the access point tech has the potential to offer mobile operators a less expensive way to backhaul network traffic and provide more consistent coverage and internet speeds indoors, there are still "tough... [23 Apr 2008]
The high-tech road to happiness
News Ambitious proposals in the Highways Agency's (HA) business plan for 2008-09 will build on the success of the six-month pilot of the Active Traffic Management (ATM) system on the M42. Smart signs on the... [01 Apr 2008]
Web 2.0 'imperative' for business
News To drive more traffic to their corporate sites, vendors can create forums for online users to chat or blog about a product, or provide an editorial space for people to discuss topical subjects on the web. [27 Mar 2008]
ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight
News The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. The hearing, which will be... [25 Feb 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News We will come in and monitor email traffic for a few days to monitor what data is actually exiting a corporation, looking for, say, financial data, and the results are almost always horrifying. During his career as an US... [15 Feb 2008]
Is online TV throttling broadband networks?
News But the company did admit it employs traffic management at certain times to ensure heavy users don't disrupt the service of other users. Despite its comments, Tiscali says it would not target iPlayer... [28 Jan 2008]
Revealed: Top UK base for IT businesses
News Despite only being placed in the top 30, London was named as the best for airport, supply chain and talent availability, but the worst for cost of land and levels of traffic congestion. The deciding factors were the cost... [26 Sep 2007]
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