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RSS pipeBT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News BT is planning to spend £1.5bn on significantly upgrading its broadband network to support next generation super-fast internet. The plans aim to give 10 million UK homes fibre access by 2012 with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps - and potentially up to 1... [15 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), near Oxford, has a 10-gigabit connection to Cern capable of 1,250Mbps upstream and downstream that will pipe in almost raw data from the LHC via the UK part of the LCG - the GridPP. [15 Jul 2008]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News Almost a third (28 per cent) of fat pipe subscribers - an estimated 4.2 million customers - in the UK are not satisfied with the speed they receive from their provider, according to a survey by price comparison website uSwitch. [14 Jul 2008]
And the designer of the next great gadget is? - You
News So-called "prosumers", a marriage of consumers and producers, will use website forums and email to pipe their ideas straight onto company production lines says the report. Apple's style gurus should watch their backs because the killer-gadgets of... [11 Jul 2008]
Syncroness Chooses ADC's Revolutionary CopperTen 10-Gigabit Ethernet UTP Cabling for New Headquarters
White Paper Syncroness evaluated optical fiber in its quest to provide the "Biggest pipe" for its network.gigabit Ethernet performance was mandatory, yet the cost of fiber optics proved prohibitive. Syncroness employs more than 30 mechanical engineers who use... [11 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News WiMax really is 'the intelligent pipe' right into the enterprise, which will be a real boon to UK plc's need for high speed symmetrical internet connectivity. On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is the best technology for providing... [10 Jul 2008]
Hierarchical Provisioning Algorithm for Virtual Private Networks Using the Hose Model
White Paper The "Hose model" for VPNs alleviates the scalability problem of the "Pipe model" by reserving bandwidths for aggregate ingress and egress requirements instead of between every pair of VPN endpoints. Virtual Private Networks (VPN) provides a secure... [10 Jul 2008]
Resource Optimization to Provision a Virtual Private Network Using the Hose Model
White Paper The recently proposed hose model for VPN alleviates the scalability problem of the pipe model by reserving for its aggregate ingress and egress bandwidth instead of between every pair of VPN endpoints. [10 Jul 2008]
Get a Lively life, with Google avatars
News Users can pipe in content hosted elsewhere on the internet, including photos or videos. Google has unveiled an online 3D social arena called Lively, the internet giant's take on Second Life. Second Life requires users to download and install a... [09 Jul 2008]
Bandwidth - How Much Is Enough?
White Paper A good analogy is to think of your Internet connection as a pipe. The term bandwidth describes the diameter of the pipe and how much water (data) can flow through it. If one doesn't have enough available bandwidth, then the pipe becomes clogged and... [08 Jul 2008]
Increase Bandwidth in Medical & Industrial Applications With FPGA Co-Processors
White Paper However, creating the specialized pipe-lined code to take true advantage of this parallelism requires hand optimization of assembly language routines. Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) have long been used as primary and co-processors in... [08 Jul 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News The research, which polled more than 1,800 mobile and web users in the six countries, also found more than half (54 per cent) of respondents would like to be able to buy their femtocell from their existing broadband vendor, indicating they may see... [23 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation Shazam is a veteran of the mobile app industry. The company's business started life seven years ago as a simple pay-as-you-go proposition enabling mobile users to identify song names with their... [12 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up Statistics never lie - honest - and this lot makes a pretty convincing picture of a rural versus urban split based on fat pipe speed. Fat pipe speeds rarely live up to the theoretical maximums advertised by ISPs. [06 Jun 2008]
Broadband pace lagging in the countryside
News A broadband speed report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband claims the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary to last week's Ofcom report hailing the end of a geographical digital divide in the UK for... [04 Jun 2008]
