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Bluetooth in Logistics - Will It Still Slip Between the Cup and the Lip?

whitepaper Till date the UPS package tracking system had workers use ring scanners that were cabled to small computers on the wrist. The new system replaces this with a Bluetooth embedded cordless ring scanner that feeds data to a hip-mounted Windows CE...

Tags: wireless lan, tracking, ups, ring

[10 Apr 2008]

Amdocs Case Study: tele.ring

whitepaper tele.ring, the Austrian telecommunications provider owned by Western Wireless International, extended its Amdocs convergent voice-data customer care and billing to support GPRS in 2001.tele.ring wireline, wireless and Internet services are...

Tags: customer support services, point, sale, care

[04 Apr 2008]

Mobile 'radio silence' fear afflicts Brits

News Nomo-phobia joins other anxiety-based mobile neologisms, including CrackBerry, the nickname for the BlackBerry smart phone which plays up its addiction properties; 'phantom ring', when a mobile user reports hearing their phone apparently ring...

Tags: crackberry, always-on, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Thanks to the HMRC debacle and the ID cards U-turn, the pressing issues surrounding privacy and personal data have made their way to the centre of the political boxing ring. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Fiber to the Home Architectures

whitepaper Deployments in Europe include mostly point-to-point and ring-based topologies employing Ethernet technology, referred to as Ethernet FTTH, along with a small number of PON FTTH deployments. The interest in deployments of Fiber To The Home (FTTH) is...

Tags: deployments, europe, ethernet, point

[24 Mar 2008]

Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up

Comment Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. Hardly a week passes without another big data breach - typically from laptops...

Tags: threat, data theft, social engineering, security

[10 Mar 2008]

Radeon X1800 Memory Controller

whitepaper One of the most significant new technologies included in this design is a new ring bus memory controller, which enables support for unprecedented memory speeds and bandwidth. The Radeon X1800 Series GPUs are the world's most sophisticated and...

Tags: graphics components

[28 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment Innovative" is one of those words that always seems to have a positive ring. Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo! just emphasises its route to success, argues Martin...

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: The School District of Philadelphia

whitepaper A Nortel Optical Ethernet solution, utilizing gigabit Ethernet capabilities on the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and Ethernet over SONET through Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) on an Optical Metro 3500 next-generation SONET platform.

Tags: ethernet

[14 Jan 2008]

Authentication and Encryption in CDMA Systems

whitepaper Mobile usage has virtually penetrated every aspect of our daily lives from the traditional voice communication to Short Message Services (SMS), Mmultimedia Messaging Services (MMS), ring tones, camera phones, games and a vast array of applications.

Tags: service providers, authentication, cdma, concept

[14 Jan 2008]

Broadband Connectivity Revitalizes Communities

whitepaper A private, Resilient Packet Ring (RPR)-based Optical Ethernet solution using Nortel's Optical Metro 3500 to support high-bandwidth broadband communications. The Development Authority of the North Country (DANC) is a New York State chartered public...

Tags: ethernet

[10 Jan 2008]

Supporting the Community to Deliver Enhanced Services

whitepaper By deploying a Nortel Optical Ethernet solution that leverages resilient packet ring (RPR) technology, Kyotango City can now connect the city halls of the six original towns and support a community intranet to deliver enhanced eGovernment services...

Tags: optical networking

[10 Jan 2008]

Modbus/TCP Controller for the Power Supplies in ALS BTS Beam Line

whitepaper The development, testing and commissioning of a self-contained power supply controller for four 100 KW power supplies for the upgraded Booster to Storage Ring (BTS) beam line at the Advanced Light Source(ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory...

Tags: tcp - ip

[08 Jan 2008]

A New Token Passing Protocol on a Star LAN

whitepaper The IEEE 802.5 is the standard protocol for token ring Local Area Networks (LANs) currently in use in many areas. This paper used the star topology implementation of the token ring network to develop a new protocol with improved performance...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Photos: The super 3D body scanner

Photo The scan is also much quicker than conventional CT scans, as the machine's X-ray emitting gantry - the giant ring-shaped part that surrounds the patient - can rotate four times in a single second, which is 22 per cent faster than current systems...

Tags: hospital, scan, image, machine

[04 Dec 2007]

ONO Carries Broadcast TV Content Over Next Generation Digital Video Transport Network Using IP Multicast

whitepaper ONO is delivering broadcast-quality television content using a next-generation digital video transport network based on the Dynamic Packet Transport/Resilient Packet Ring (DPT/RPR), Gigabit Ethernet and IP Multicast capabilities of Cisco 10720...

Tags: switching

[03 Dec 2007]

Photos: The best of Google Sky

Photo This is a glowing loop of gas called the Ring Nebula. The Google Sky application lets users navigate space in a similar way to Google Earth - with constellations drawn out and labelled to help cyber star gazers.

Tags: objects, image, institute, images

[28 Nov 2007]

Telco Speeds Up and Cuts Costs on Its PC Video on Demand Service

whitepaper The service delivers live video streaming, static content (ring tones, wallpapers) and dynamic DRM-based content (movies) for its Indian customers on a pay-per-view basis. VSNL is a major global communication services provider offering a portfolio...

Tags: streaming media, video, microsoft .net framework, boost

[05 Nov 2007]

How 10 Gigabit Ethernet, RPR and MPLS Work Together: The Future of Metro Area Networking

whitepaper Resilient Packet Ring (RPR). Over the last year, three new and particularly promising technologies have emerged at the forefront of Metro networking. The three are Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS), 10-Gigabit Ethernet, and

Tags: ethernet, deployment, metro, label switching

[28 Oct 2007]

Oracle warns BEA it won't wait forever

News Since Oracle announced its offer less than two weeks ago, BEA's shares have been trading in the $18 range, as investors anticipated another suitor stepping into the ring - or a higher bid from Oracle.

Tags: middleware, bea, oracle

[24 Oct 2007]

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