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Packet Transport Solutions for Transportation Network Evolution: Increase Flexibility and Reliability While Optimizing the Convergence of New Ethernet/IP Services
White Paper A Mission Critical Wide Area Networks Infrastructure (MCWANI) enables flexibility for applications with innovative technologies, such as Zero Touch Photonics, Packet Optical Transport Systems, and Microwave... [02 Oct 2009]
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
White Paper The scheme can detect a DDoS attack in its early stages when the attacking packet's attribute value has no distinct features. One of the major threats to cyber security is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. [02 Oct 2009]
Using NetFlow Auditor to Assist in Identifying Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks and Other Network Behavior Anomalies
White Paper The paper will reflect a method to alert when changes occur outside of learnt baselines and how new patterns can be recognized when security analysts have access to technology that provides high visibility of traffic from utilization,... [02 Oct 2009]
A Principle of a Data Synthesizer for Performance Test of Anti-DDOS Flood Attacks
White Paper This paper introduces a principle to synthesize packet series according to a given value of the Hurst parameter for performance test of anti-DDOS flood attacks. Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) flood attacks remain a... [02 Oct 2009]
Where to make the biggest bucks working in IT
News IT workers chasing the big bucks should pay close attention to which sector they choose to work in. The best paid sectors for IT staff are the legal and finance sectors, where the average annual salary for an IT worker is £42,832,... [01 Oct 2009]
MPLS: What is it? What can it do for me?
White Paper Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) began as a way for routers to short-cut the time-consuming process of treating each packet independently, looking up the target IP address each time and in every router along the path. [01 Oct 2009]
Multicast - What Is It?
White Paper A unicast packet has a single source IP address and a single destination IP address. A multicast packet has a single source IP, but it has a multicast destination IP address that will be delivered to a... [01 Oct 2009]
QoS: What Is It? Why Do We Need It?
White Paper Quality of Service (QoS) is the ability to treat packets differently as they transit a network device, based on the packet contents. Without QoS, all packets on the network vie for the same pool of resources, and when... [01 Oct 2009]
Overcoming IP Telephony Performance Issues in a Converged Network
White Paper Voice traffic is highly intolerant to delay, jitter, and packet loss, so it is critical to prioritize it over normal traffic. When implementing Voice over IP (VoIP) onto a data network, you must ensure that the equipment... [01 Oct 2009]
How to Replicate the Fire: HA for Netfilter Based Firewalls
White Paper As long as all packet filtering rules and routing table entries are configured in exactly the same way, one can use any available tool for IP-Address takeover to accomplish the goal of failing over from one node to the... [30 Sep 2009]
Order-to-Cash Best Practices for Billing Documents: Automated Access and Delivery
White Paper And they can pull up the entire packet in your ERP system for immediate reference. If you can solve the problem of invoices staying unpaid because customers require proof that their orders have been delivered, you can: [29 Sep 2009]
Uncomplaining techies turn in extra hours for free
News Despite an increasing workload and a static pay packet, it seems IT workers remain content to bite their tongue - just 18 per cent said they had complained about increased working hours. If you feel like you're spending... [23 Sep 2009]
The right skills to boost your pay packet unveiled
News Choose carefully and you could make a significant improvement to your pay packet. Thinking of brushing up on your IT skills? According to new research, techies working in IT management should consider brushing up on... [22 Sep 2009]
CAFE: A Configurable PAcket Forwarding Engine for Data Center Networks
White Paper All these designs need specialized packet forwarding engines due to their special routing algorithms, which are either based on commonly used packet headers or self-defined ones. This paper presents a... [16 Sep 2009]
Why Should We Integrate Services, Servers, and Networking in a Data Center?
White Paper An end-point injects a packet with a destination address and the network delivers the packet. Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. [16 Sep 2009]