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IP-Availability and SLA
White Paper Service availability is looked from ISO-OSI reference model layers and cross-layer point of view. This paper studies possible Service Level Agreement (SLA) objectives corresponding network service availability in packet... [12 Nov 2009]
Integrating Wired IDS With Wi-Fi Using Open-Source IDS to Complement a Wireless IDS/IPS Deployment
White Paper Focusing their analysis on the data-link and physical layers of the OSI model (Layers 2 and 1), these tools allow organizations to successfully identify and defend against rogue APs, wireless protocol attacks and denial... [12 Nov 2009]
The OSI Model: Understanding the Seven Layers of Computer Networks
White Paper This white paper will provide you with an understanding of each of the seven layers of the OSI Model, including their functions and their relationships to each other. It will also compare the theoretical... [03 Nov 2009]
Understanding the OSI 7 Layer Model
White Paper This document provides a full length explanation of the OSI 7 layer model including the role of each layer and of the stack. The OSI model is a way of describing how different applications and protocols... [14 Aug 2009]
Acpo: Police should go open source
News Microsoft develops open source code under its CodePlex project, and distributes it under Microsoft Public License, one of Microsoft's OSI-certified open-source licences. Police data systems should be based on open-source... [24 Jun 2009]
Outback Steakhouse Adds HP StorageWorks XP10000 Disk Arrays to the Menu for Business Continuity
White Paper OSI Restaurant Partners Inc.owns and operates 1,300 restaurants across the United States, including Outback Steakhouse restaurants and seven other chains. OSI needed an advanced solution with virtualized... [22 Jun 2009]
Reusable Verification Environment for Verification of Ethernet Packet in Ethernet IP Core, a Verification Strategy-an Analysis
White Paper However, due to the plethora of available hardware technologies with widely varying characteristics, this is perhaps the most complex layer in the OSI architecture. Design reuse and verification reuse are important to... [02 Apr 2009]
MPLS and MPLS VPNs: Basics for Beginners
White Paper Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a core networking technology that operates essentially in between Layers 2 and 3 of the OSI model; for this reason, MPLS has been referred to as operating at Layer 2.5. [01 Apr 2009]
Application Layer Firewall Technology for Enterprise Networks
White Paper Application layer firewall is different from the other types of firewalls because it uses layer seven of the OSI model to filter traffic. Firewall is an essential part of network security. The latest type of firewall is... [23 Mar 2009]
Linux open source Silverlight is live
News They have open-sourced the Microsoft DLR, the Microsoft MEF framework and the crown jewels: the Microsoft Silverlight Control Library and the Control Toolkit under the OSI-approved MS-PL licences. Moonlight 1.0, the... [13 Feb 2009]
Crisis Averted: A Proactive Approach to Mitigating Disaster
White Paper OSI) concepts (Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Fleming's, Roy's, Bonefish Grill, Cheeseburger in Paradise, Lee Roy Selmon's and Blue Coral). Is your business' network - and the IT staff that runs it -... [01 Dec 2008]
Applications of QKD Network for High Performance Distributed Computing
White Paper Research is also in progress for the integration of QKD with the protocols in different layers of OSI model. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a point to point secure key generation technology which provides... [03 Nov 2008]
MPLS VPNs: Layer 2 or Layer 3? Understanding the Choice
White Paper Since there's been data networking, there's been a debate between switched and routed architectures - stated in OSI terms, between performing functions at Layer 3 or Layer 2. Today, we see it again surfacing as network... [02 Sep 2008]
Virtual Villains of Security & PCI Compliance: Future Challenges of MPLS, Virtual Machines and VLANs
White Paper Organizations are increasing the use of virtualization of OSI layers two through seven. Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) will continue to change and adapt to mitigate the risk of... [29 Jul 2008]
ABW - Short-Timescale Passive Bandwidth Monitoring
White Paper The produced characteristics include information about short-term peaks and about the percentage of bandwidth used by different protocols in different layers of the OSI model hierarchy, including detection of application... [11 Jul 2008]