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Google, Amazon ask CRTC to stop Internet traffic shaping
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Google, Amazon ask CRTC to stop Internet traffic shaping
In a submission Monday to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a coalition including Google, Amazon and Skype demand that carriers and ISPs be banned from traffic-shaping. But an industry observer thinks the submission needs a narrower focus
IP telephony without the infrastructure
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
IP telephony without the infrastructure
Jajah offers a hosted software PBX for companies that don't want to go through the trouble and expense of a rip-and-replace PBX project
Foundry goes big with switches
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Foundry goes big with switches
Foundry launched its largest Ethernet switch to date at Interop last month, a 32-slot, 5.1 terabit-per-second Ethernet switch aimed at high-end data centres and campus LAN backbones.
WLAN architecture requires extra planning
Monday, June 06, 2005
WLAN architecture requires extra planning
Wireless networking on small and large scales is currently all the rage. Communicating digitally across the air, using various techniques, most commonly radio waves, has caught the attention of businesses and consumers everywhere, and the broader range of mobile solutions which this new cable-free type of network can offer places even more value behind the wireless prospect.
Mesh moves into the wireless office
Monday, November 29, 2004
Mesh moves into the wireless office
A costly and complex aspect of today's wireless networks can sometimes be the very component they're supposed to eliminate: cabling. Emerging 802.11-based mesh networks attempt to resolve this irony by using more radio spectrum and less wire in the form of Ethernet cabling than traditional wireless LANs.
Sprint Canada intros IP-enabled offerings
Friday, October 31, 2003
Sprint Canada intros IP-enabled offerings
The starting gun fired for Sprint Canada Inc. this month as the company launched its IP-Enabled Solutions.
Equipe makes pitch for MPLS core
Friday, August 01, 2003
Equipe makes pitch for MPLS core
Equipe Communications Corp. is the latest Layer 2 core multiservice switch maker to unveil software that enables its switch to function as a label switching router in a Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) backbone.
Convergence in action
Sunday, April 14, 2002
Convergence in action
In addition to showing off new voice and data products at the NetWorld+Interop 2002 show May 6-10 in Las Vegas, Extreme Networks Inc. and Shoreline Communications Inc. will put their gear to work.
Interview: A grip on the grid
Sunday, February 10, 2002
Interview: A grip on the grid
As the executive director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Dan Reed may have one of the better jobs in all of IT. He leads an organization that is committed to pushing the computer-science envelope, and as such pioneers many of the concepts that will become part of mainstream IT infrastructure in the future.
Juniper makes the jump to get IPv6-ready
Thursday, January 03, 2002
Juniper makes the jump to get IPv6-ready
The sheer volume of Internet users worldwide has resulted in a virtual breaking point, one in which the current supply of Web addresses is not meeting the demand.
Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
Thursday, April 05, 2001
Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
Alarm bells are ringing in the Internet engineering community over an obscure statistic that indicates the 'Net is growing — in size and complexity — at a faster rate than today's routers can handle.
Startup pushes IP services scalability
Thursday, January 25, 2001
Startup pushes IP services scalability
Convinced that large carriers are waiting for even more IP service-creation scalability than offered by recent startups, a new company recently announced a service switch supporting up to six million simultaneous users.
Olicom’s token-ring a fit for Madge
Thursday, September 23, 1999
Olicom’s token-ring a fit for Madge
Madge Networks believes there’s still some life left in the aging token-ring market. Late last month, Madge acquired the token-ring assets of Olicom for US$15 million and cash payments over the next three years to be based on Madge’s token-ring revenue performance.
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