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The Search for the Right Packet Transport Technology: MPLS or PBB-TE (PBT)?
White Paper The author does this in order to evaluate if there are any fundamental differences between the control or data plane of the two technologies, which would give either of them a significant cost/complexity advantage over... [11 Sep 2009]
The Emerging Optical Control Plane
White Paper Traditional transport networks can be modeled as the interaction of two operating planes: a transport plane and a management plane. In this model, the... [30 Aug 2009]
Photos: The tech keeping the world's airports flying high
Photo This demonstration model of a ramp management app, which has yet to be deployed with an airline, shows each stage of preparation that needs to be completed before a plane can take off - the yellow boxes shown here. [07 Jul 2009]
Take a trip to the future of air travel
News In the future, your mobile phone could become your holiday concierge, reminding you to check-in the minute you arrive at the airport or automatically ordering a taxi for you when your plane lands. One of the key areas... [03 Jul 2009]
On the Design of MPLS-ASON/GMPLS Interconnection Mechanisms
White Paper No optical resources are used in the transport plane of the ASON/GMPLS network. The interconnection is firstly done at the control plane level allowing the OSPF-TE flooding mechanism to... [01 Apr 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo Shown above is the Embedded Vision Engine, which processes optical, radar and infrared footage taken during a plane's flight and brings it all together along with flight information. With Airwave now working throughout... [28 Jan 2009]
Circuit/Wavelength Switching and Routing
White Paper A first important topic deals with the different control plane models in single- and multi-domain networks. Also the IP-over-OTN network architecture, envisaged to be the network architecture most suited for future... [11 Sep 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment Raghu Shenoy, chief executive of a small Bangalore IT services firm, thinks nothing of jumping on a plane to see a client. For want of a public transport system in the city, companies such as Wipro and... [30 Jul 2008]
Converging ATM/Frame Relay Over MPLS - Solving Control Plane Interworking
White Paper The emergence of new standards for Layer 2 transport, new Layer 3 applications, and multiservice interworking over MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) have made MPLS a desirable framework for integrating specialized... [25 Jun 2008]
Airlines see passenger self-service take off
News Passengers are also turning to self-service kiosks to avoid queues with 37 per cent of plane travellers expected to use these kiosks during 2007, rising to 49 per cent next year. More than half of the airlines surveyed... [19 Oct 2007]
Wi-fi trains get satellite broadband boost
News Plane-based systems such as the now-defunct Connexion by Boeing tend to use simpler systems based on a two-way satellite link. Wireless hot spots have become ubiquitous in city centres but transport... [13 Sep 2006]
Bidding begins for £400m e-Borders system
News People deemed to pose a threat to UK security would not be allowed to board a plane, ship or train bound for the UK, and the system will also keep electronic logs of each traveller's entry and departure in an attempt to... [04 Oct 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Information the way it should be
Comment Moreover, clicking on a plane icon gives me the make and height - I can work out the approx speed for myself! And it doesn't stop there: entertainment listings, eating houses, hotels, transport, weather,... [12 Sep 2005]
Leader: RFID, NFC and consumers
Leader Imagine when a passenger has lost track of time and they're stuck in duty free while the airline is desperately trying to finish boarding the plane," said the tech exec. For example, Philips RFID chips enable Oyster... [22 Oct 2004]
Airbus bails out of EU-Microsoft scrap
News The plane-maker had filed with the European Court of First Instance appeal court with the aim of clearing up a number of technical legal issues on the definitions of markets. And today, Boeing was doing its best to... [24 Sep 2004]
