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Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies.

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News On the subject of the sudden increase in 3G dongle usage in the UK, Patel said the trend "validates the market for mobile data" but said he was "convinced that, at some point, 3G will not be able to cope from a backhaul [and general traffic...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion; intelligent transport...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Europe, India net gets cast under the sea

News Verizon Communications's business unit said yesterday it would help build an undersea cable connecting Europe, India and the Middle East in order to expand its global network and support internet traffic.

Tags: internet, cable, verizon

[07 May 2008]

Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving

News Webb said while the access point tech has the potential to offer mobile operators a less expensive way to backhaul network traffic and provide more consistent coverage and internet speeds indoors, there are still "tough hurdles" to be overcome if...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, femtocell

[23 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News Although Cicconi's speech did not explicitly refer to the term "net neutrality", some audience members tackled him on the issue in a question-and-answer session, asking whether the subtext of his speech was really around prioritising some kinds of...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News The Home Office] gave an opinion, not a legal opinion, of their understanding of how the law was [to be applied] - it was essential to get opt-in permission from people whose outgoing traffic was being intercepted.

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News Website attacks, which plant browser exploits to compromise users, are also becoming more a problem as they are able to target well known, high-traffic sites. Security A to Z 'Pass the hash' and metasploit are two of a new breed of emerging...

Tags: browser, rsa, phishing, botnet

[09 Apr 2008]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk, Armstrong said the iPlayer service had "gone from zero per cent of [UK traffic] to five per cent in two months", and this explosion in high-bandwidth usage meant ISPs would have to either explicitly...

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Tennis federation rallies web presence

Case Study One of the big challenges was to find a delivery on the internet that could cope with traffic. To cope with the increase in internet traffic the ITF has been using NTT Europe Online's Smart Content Delivery system which manages large volumes of...

Tags: tennis, ntt, website, servers

[12 Mar 2008]

Gambling site brought to its knees by 'unstoppable' botnet

News Attackers disguised the build up of traffic from up to 30,000 PC and Apple Mac botnet computers during the attack by analysing and reproducing the browsing habits of the sites' typical users. Peter Bassill, information security officer with Gala...

Tags: ddos, security, botnet, attack

[06 Mar 2008]

SMS gets Oxfordshire residents out of deep water

News Oxfordshire County Council has been using text alerts since 2003 to warn of severe weather, road traffic accidents and terrorist alerts at a charge of £1.50 per year. Wireless from A to Z Oxfordshire County Council is rolling out a mobile text...

Tags: text, oxfordshire, flood, sms

[26 Feb 2008]

Network optimisation market speeds up

News One of the key additions is the fact Riverbed's WAN optimisation controller, called the Steelhead, is now able to optimise Microsoft Exchange 2007 traffic. Riverbed claims Office 2007-based email traffic can now be delivered in one-tenth of the...

Tags: wan, upgrade, riverbed, cisco

[26 Feb 2008]

How the good guys fight the security arms race

News We will come in and monitor email traffic for a few days to monitor what data is actually exiting a corporation, looking for, say, financial data, and the results are almost always horrifying. Security from A to Z

Tags: data loss, rsa, data security, sending

[15 Feb 2008]

Ericsson CEO hails mobile broadband 'breakthrough'

News He added: "We see that in the 3G networks that we monitor in Europe data traffic now exceeds voice and accelerates quickly, from between 50 to 1,500 per cent depending on the operator's strategy. The list from A to Z

Tags: telstra, mobile broadband, ericsson, society

[11 Feb 2008]

Why O2 isn't willing to share

News The company plans to "invest heavily" in 2G - Dowd said it expects voice traffic to grow by between 30 and 40 per cent in the next couple of years. Wireless from A to Z A is for Antivirus The company doesn't buy the argument that network sharing...

Tags: o2, 3g, iphone, coverage

[05 Feb 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News Tiscali employs traffic shaping on its network with bandwidth for large packets of data restricted at peak times to ensure every customer has a similar service. Despite its comments, Tiscali says it would not target iPlayer content for traffic...

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

Banking hack attacks routers, warns Symantec

News The HTTP get-request redirects traffic flowing over the router to a specific IP address when the user attempts to access six domain names that are banking-related. Security A to Z The company said this was the first time it had seen such an attack...

Tags: router, banks, hack, request

[25 Jan 2008]

Applied Expert Systems Case Study: CLEVER cTrace

whitepaper The question they faced was how to manage the evolving hybrid network of HPR and TCP/IP connectivity and rapidly expanding session traffic and report on its performance. Since the vast majority of the Business Service applications remained z/OS...

Tags: monitoring systems

[10 Jan 2008]

Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs'

News According to Tele Atlas, the increasing amount of traffic on the roads is making HGV drivers seek routes through areas where there is likely to be less congestion. Wireless from A to Z A is for Antivirus

Tags: tele atlas, congestion, sat nav, maps

[21 Dec 2007]

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