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News More than a fifth (23 per cent) of respondents said they have answered calls or sent emails while propping up the bar down the pub, a quarter of respondents have worked while on public transport and 13 per cent have sent emails or made calls from... [28 Aug 2008]
Legal move leaves Oyster contract in limbo
News Cubic, a member of the TranSys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally restrained by EDS, the other major member of the consortium, from taking over the running of the entire Oyster system. [14 Aug 2008]
Tech to get walkers back on streets of London
News Transport for London (TfL) says the system will boost public health and reduce stress on buses and the Tube by providing a benchmark to measure the success of schemes to promote walking. The system will help TfL achieve its goal of increase the... [08 Aug 2008]
Web Service Architecture for Railway Infrastructure Management Systems
White Paper One of the key issues of this plan is the separation of railway infrastructure management and transport service operation. But this also means that the 'Traditional' national railway companies have to be divided, leaving one unit managing the... [04 Aug 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment For want of a public transport system in the city, companies such as Wipro and Infosys run a fleet of hundreds of private buses to ferry employees to the workplace and back. Bangalore's airport was conceived so it could give this otherwise gung-ho... [30 Jul 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News Department for Transport: 3,050 out of 19,460 staff have remote or home working access to department systems. But it is an improvement over where the government was two years ago and I think the fact that flexible working can impact on the bottom... [30 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment At least, even for a self-confessed work junkie like Pavitt, that was the plan until the headhunters came knocking about the CIO role at Transport for London (TfL). He explains: "All the transport modes or business units have pretty much done their... [29 Jul 2008]
Photos: Future car tech at the British Motor Show
Photo UK environment minister, Phil Woolas, has a go on a simulator that tests how efficient your driving is here at the Department for Transport's Greener Driving Pavilion at the show. Unfortunately it's not currently able to operate in London due to a... [25 Jul 2008]
NeoAccel SSL VPN-Plus: The Future of Virtual Private Networks
White Paper Earlier generations of VPN technology were "Narrow" solutions that supported limited networking protocols, utilizing transport mechanisms including PPTP (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol), L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol), and today's pre... [10 Jul 2008]
IntraSelect MPLS: Built for Business - Providing Flexibility, Reliability, Scalability, Security and Performance With Next Generation IP MPLS Technology
White Paper Corporations are increasingly integrating their Business Communications Systems and Processes on a technology that enables the reliable and secure transport of data, multimedia and voice traffic across private networks. [10 Jul 2008]
IP Core Transport Network
White Paper This paper proposes a next-generation IP core transport network architecture that fully utilizes the features of a photonic network. To cope with the IP traffic trends and users' demands for Quality of Service (QoS), the paper proposes a virtual... [03 Jul 2008]
TANDBERG Television Case Study: NTL Broadcast, England
White Paper Across the world, governments are trying to encourage the use of public transport, to alleviate traffic congestion and its attendant pollution. Public transport operators, responding to this, are starting to fit TV screens to their vehicles to... [03 Jul 2008]
Virtual Private Networks Cost Benefits
White Paper VPNs enable organizations to utilize cost-effective third-party Internet transport to connect remote offices and remote users to their main corporate sites. VPNs are private, secure connections across a public network - usually the Internet - that... [03 Jul 2008]
WI-FI Connectivity
White Paper This application note covers the basics of Wi-Fi connectivity with optical wireless as a bridge or access transport for the enterprise and public hot spots. Connecting Wi-Fi networks can be a difficult proposition if there are competing 2.4GHz... [03 Jul 2008]
Ethernet-Based Public Communication Services: Challenge and Opportunity
White Paper Using Ethernet as the common access interface, providers can employ flexible transport services that enable additional value-added services at layer 3 and above. Ethernet is quickly becoming the customer UNI of choice. [03 Jul 2008]
