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Communication Performance Over a Gigabit Ethernet Network
White Paper Cluster computing imposes heavy demands on the communication network. Gigabit Ethernet technology can provide the required bandwidth to meet these demands. However, it has also shifted the communication bottleneck from network media to protocol... [18 Jul 2008]
A Survey of MAC Protocols in Optical Networks
White Paper All-Optical networks, where the entire path between end nodes is optical, represent the third generation in the use of fiber in communication systems. This paper provides a comprehensive review of Medium Access Protocols (MAC) for optical networks. [18 Jul 2008]
UK Police Authority Supports Investigations With Powerful Solution and Reduces Expenditure by 90 Per Cent
White Paper The Kent Police Authority is one of 43 police authorities in England and Wales established by Parliament for the governance of policing at a local level. The Kent Police had IT infrastructure that was five years old running its serious crime... [05 Jul 2008]
Configuring the Polycom ViewStation for Use With Cisco Secure PIX Firewall
White Paper This paper guides through the configuration of a Cisco Secure PIX firewall in order to allow the use of a Polycom ViewStation video conferencing device. There are several different methods that can be used to accomplish the same level of... [31 May 2008]
Modified Tahoe TCP for Wireless Networks Using OPNET Simulator
White Paper This paper describes a modification to the Transmission Control Protocol's (TCP) Tahoe flavour for use in Wireless networks. It shows that by slightly modifying the algorithm of the Tahoe TCP, it can be made to respond better to wireless links... [14 Jan 2008]
Unit Test Frameworks: The xUnit Family of Unit Test Frameworks
White Paper Kent Beck published a unit test framework for the Smalltalk language in 1999. The architecture of SmalltalkUnit (or SUnit) represents a sweet spot, an ideal balance between simplicity and utility. Later, Erich Gamma ported SUnit to Java, creating... [24 Oct 2007]
Maximizing Lifetime of - Powerlimited Network With Active Minimum Spanning Tree Aggregation
White Paper Lately proposed "Harness" is a system level group communicationware that enables a large number of nodes to exchange programmable network information using various communication patterns. It offers both scalability and versatility in message... [01 Aug 2007]
Threat Modelling for ASP.NET: Designing Secure Applications
White Paper This paper gives a security analysis of Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. The main part of the paper is a list of threats which is structured according to architecture of Web services and attack points. [03 Jul 2007]
E-Business Oriented AJAX (EBOA): A Framework for Creating AJAX Based e-Business Web Applications With Ease
White Paper This paper sets out to explore the future of web application development, the increasing popularity and consequent use of a new technique in web development - AJAX. This paper describes how the project applies this technique in an e-Business context. [02 Jul 2007]
Blocking System Calls in KRoC/Linux
White Paper This paper describes an extension to Kent Retargetable occam Compiler (KRoC), which enables the execution of a blocking call, without blocking the occam-kernel. Blocking calls are implemented using Linux clones which communicate using shared memory... [18 Apr 2007]
Novell Case Study: Kent Police Authority
White Paper The Kent Police Authority is one of 43 police authorities in England and Wales established by Parliament for the governance of policing at a local level. One of the biggest challenges for the Kent Police Authority is the sheer number of... [04 Apr 2007]
JUnit Reloaded
White Paper With version 4, Kent Beck and Erich Gamma introduced the first significant API changes in the last few years. JUnit is the most widely used (unit-) testing tool in the Java world. There are other powerful test frameworks out there, such as TestNG... [21 Feb 2007]
Tablet PCs Help Boost Student Performance
White Paper Kent School District, south of Seattle, Washington, faces the ever-familiar educational challenges of motivating students and preparing them for success in the 21st century. One way the district is addressing these challenges is with a long-term... [19 Dec 2006]
School District Enhances Learning With Integrated Messaging and Productivity Tools
White Paper Washington State's Kent School District struggled to maintain its varied, distributed computer environment, which included a range of Novell NetWare operating systems and the GroupWise messaging system. [20 Sep 2006]
Computacenter Case Study: Kent Police
White Paper Kent Police was quick to recognise the financial and value benefits of using VOIP (Voice-Over IP), and with Computacenter's help embarked on the roll-out of a new wide area network and IP-based communications infrastructure. [10 Aug 2006]
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