traffic network in news
Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
News IP networks were bombarded by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks - attempts to make networks unreachable by flooding them with traffic - as intense as 40Gbps, a survey of 70 IP network... [12 Nov 2008]
Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News Communications are kept rock solid by the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, which balances traffic load over the network and ensures that communications can be run even if one of the... [04 Nov 2008]
Orange notches up three million mobile data addicts
News Orange said data usage in the third quarter of the year has been "significant" - with traffic doubling since Q2. The operator attributes "sustained" usage growth to sales of USB dongles to contract customers, with an... [04 Nov 2008]
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. WiMax as a network is therefore more flexible in... [23 Oct 2008]
Virtualisation: At risk from attack
News Benjamin Low, managing director of Asia South at Secure Computing, added in an email that the mobility of virtual environments and the fact that VMs can "hide" when they are not active make it difficult for traditional... [20 Oct 2008]
Round three for BT's Phorm trials
News We haven't given permission for third parties to intercept the traffic from us to our viewers," said Clayton. The spokesperson said BT had been exploring network-based ways to track anonymised users... [29 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... [04 Sep 2008]
Femtocells to save mobile operators over $5bn?
News The $5.3bn savings are based on the assumption that without femtocells operators would have to spend some $9bn on beefing up network coverage to take extra traffic - a figure which presupposes a third of... [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 shoulder of the... [28 Jul 2008]
C&W inks £8m deal to hook up Réunion Island
News The increased bandwidth offered by the network will enable it to carry higher volumes of voice and data traffic and support innovative new services, the two companies said. Telco Cable & Wireless (C&W)... [14 Jul 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News Then it will not do to offer 14.4Mbps which is actually 1Mbps or unlimited data traffic which is in reality limited to a few gigabytes per month. Mobile data traffic - generated by USB-sticks and dongles... [20 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... [29 May 2008]
Critics attack gov't email, phone database plan
News As of last September telecoms providers must keep all text and phone call records for up to two years under an EU directive, and this is to be rolled out to include all online traffic by 2009 at the latest. [20 May 2008]
Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network
News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the... [09 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. Installing network cards... [09 May 2008]
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