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Critics attack gov't email, phone database plan

News As of last September telecoms providers must keep all text and phone call records for up to two years under an EU directive, and this is to be rolled out to include all online traffic by 2009 at the latest.

Tags: privacy, data security, database

[20 May 2008]

Podcast: Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts

whitepaper Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and needs of other network traffic on a converged infrastructure. The key to assuring voice QoS, while still maintaining the performance of other...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, qos, traffic, voip

[19 May 2008]

The Benefits of Securing Servers in the Network: Enhanced Security, Compliance and Operational Excellence

whitepaper Blue Lane corrects the traffic directed at a known vulnerability, providing the benefits of patching immediately after a vendor patch is released and without the need to hastily test or install server software patches.

Tags: software engineering

[19 May 2008]

Gruppo Iper Secures Market Leadership by Ensuring Data Integrity and Accessibility Across the Enterprise

whitepaper The challenge was to consolidate monitoring of the group's logistics and commercial operations and improve control of information flows and integrate data from different sources to reduce network traffic and to make detailed business analysis...

Tags: database management

[18 May 2008]

Parallel Computation in Mobile Systems Using Bluetooth Scatternets and Java

whitepaper DynaMP has a resource discovery mechanism, it distributes code and data using Java classloading, with a caching mechanism to reduce network traffic. Using an ad-hoc network with on-demand routing based on AODV.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, mechanism, java, ad hoc

[16 May 2008]

A Firewall for Routers: Protecting Against Routing Misbehavior

whitepaper This paper presents the novel idea of route normalization by correcting on the fly routing traffic on behalf of a local router to protect the local network from malicious and misconfigured routing updates.

Tags: switching

[15 May 2008]

Pennsylvania Turnpike Achieves ROI Within Two Years With Cisco Wireless and Ethernet Technology

whitepaper The network incorporates wireless technology with enhanced security and ATM technology that allows greater bandwidth, to help Pennsylvania Turnpike better manage and monitor roadways and more efficiently move traffic along the toll road.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, intelligent, atm, bandwidth

[15 May 2008]

Detection and Removal of Firewall Misconfiguration

whitepaper To police network traffic, firewalls must be configured with a set of filtering rules. The existence of errors in this set is very likely to degrade the network security policy. The management of these configuration errors is a serious and complex...

Tags: firewalls

[15 May 2008]

The New Data Center: Toward a Consolidated Platform

whitepaper Security concerns about HTTP/S traffic are greater in the corporate data center than on the open Web. Dedicated secure sockets layer and other security devices are often needed in this part of the network.

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

Traffic-Aware Firewall Optimization Strategies

whitepaper This paper describes a traffic-aware optimization framework to improve the operational cost of firewalls. Based on this framework, a set of tools are designed that inspect and analyze both multidimensional firewall rules and traffic logs and...

Tags: firewalls

[15 May 2008]

An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol

whitepaper Analysis is performed by careful study of Skype network traffic. This paper analyzes key Skype functions such as login, NAT and firewall traversal, call establishment, media transfer, codecs, and conferencing under three different network setups.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[14 May 2008]

Network Firewall Policy Tries

whitepaper These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner. Unfortunately packet filtering in this fashion can result in significant traffic delays, which is problematic for...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Trie-Based Policy Representations for Network Firewalls

whitepaper These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner. Unfortunately packet filtering in this fashion can result in significant traffic delays, which is problematic for...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Dynamic Rule-Ordering Optimization for High-Speed Firewall Filtering

whitepaper Current packet filtering techniques exploit the characteristics of the filtering policies, but they do not consider the traffic behavior in optimizing their search data structures. Packet filtering plays a critical role in many of the current high...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

On Dynamic Optimization of Packet Matching in High Speed Firewalls

whitepaper However, most of the related works use deterministic techniques and do not exploit the traffic characteristics in their optimization schemes. Packet matching plays a critical role in the performance of many network devices and a tremendous amount...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Adaptive Statistical Optimization Techniques for Firewall Packet Filtering

whitepaper However, most of the related works use deterministic techniques and do not exploit the traffic characteristics in their optimization schemes. It also presents a new packet filtering optimization technique that uses adaptive statistical search trees...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

An Automated Framework for Validating Firewall Policy Enforcement

whitepaper Generating random traffic to test the functionality of firewall matching is inefficient and inaccurate as it requires an exponential number of test cases for a reasonable coverage. This paper presents a framework for automatic testing of the...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

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]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Another department airing its green credentials was the Highways Agency (HA), which manages 4,696 miles of trunk roads and motorway carrying one third of all traffic in the UK. Installing network cards to remotely control its PCs, allowing it to...

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News Uses of the network will include real-time traffic monitoring via CCTV, improved IT in schools and videoconferencing to help social workers carry out their jobs more effectively. The network may also give a boost to flexible working by enabling...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

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