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Yorkshire’s Cybermoor Goes WiMAX

[...] We had got to the stage where the network we built in 2002 was seriously creaking at the seams, so three years ago we began the process of moving the backbone to 5.8GHz, he said. The Proxim gear didn't need as much care and attention as the Cisco stuff we had.. [...] Community wireless network uses Proxim-based equipment to avoid Wi-Fi interference and boost sustainability and the local economy. [...] The Cybermoor community network is already boosting the local economy and helping make the relatively remote community of Alston Moor sustainable, said Daniel Heery, Cybermoor's project manager. [...]

Avaya Launches Cost-Cutting SIP Network

[...] Tactics like least-cost routing, where calls are made using the corporate IP network and use the public phone network only when necessary have been costly and complex to implement, but would become easier using Aura, she said. [...] Avaya has launched a product which can de-couple applications from companies' networks, so users can simplify their communications even if they have equipment from multiple vendors. [...] Network giant Avaya has launched a product which uses the SIP telephony protocols to make a neutral layer across enterprise networks, so companies can run applications across multiple vendors' communications equipment. [...]

Phorm Controversy Rains On Brown’s Digital Britain Parade | eWEEK Europe UK

[...] Commenting on the aims of the summit, minister for communications, technology and broadcasting, Stephen A Carter said that an effective IT and communications industry was vital to the future of the UK economy. [...] That is simply not true. The data phorm use has been gathered by Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) equipment situated in the Internet Service Providers (ISP) network. If your ISP is a phorm partner then ALL your http data stream is intercepted and copied by the ISP, processed and passed to phorm. [...] I'm happy enough to be served targeted advertising but I am not happy for Phorm to install DPI equipment in my ISP's network to intercept and scan everything that I browse, and what's more, intercepting my private communications to other websites is illegal. [...]

HP Converges The Data Centre With Matrix

[...] Two days before, on April 14, Sun Microsystems rolled out its Open Network Systems plan, which also incorporates Intel's Xeon 5500 chips&mdash.also known as Nehalem EP&mdash.as well as Sun's own Solaris operating system, networking and storage technologies and integrated Flash memory capabilities. [...] HP officials said the combination of the BladeSystem Matrix and MOE can save enterprises up to 79 percent in operational costs, offers a four-to-one network equipment consolidation and a 45 percent reduction in server hardware and software costs. [...] Key to the BladeSystem Matrix is the inclusion of HP's new Virtual Connect 8Gb Fibre Channel and Flex-10 Ethernet modules. Flex-10 can allocate the bandwidth of a 10Gb Ethernet network across four NIC (network interface card) connections, which reduces the need for additional network equipment. [...]

Earth Hour Fails To Slow Internet Usage

Earth Hour Fails To Slow Internet Usage

[...] According to an AMD-sponsored study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, power for servers and their cooling equipment took up 1.2 percent of the entire U.S. power consumption in 2005 at a cost of $2.6 billion (£1.8bn). The numbers don't include power for data storage and network equipment. [...]

Struggling BT Gets A Lift From Cash-Strapped MOD | eWEEK Europe UK

[...] In a statement BT said that the contract involves supporting communications across 197 military bases with the telecoms and services giant charged with managing voice and data networks in more than a quarter of a million MOD buildings, communications rooms and underground cable ducts. [...] Although the MOD deal comes at a fortuitous time for BT, questions might be asked about whether now is the right time for the MOD to be allocating tens of millions on supporting communications systems when numerous reports in recent months have focused on the lack of adequate equipment for front-line troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...] The commencement of this service for Defence represents a logical and significant step forward in the continuing modernisation and rationalisation of the fixed communication network infrastructure which began in 1997. My team looks forward to working with BT on this project which is a vital element in the UK's operational capability worldwide, said Darrell Midgley, head of the MOD's Defence Equipment and Support's Networks Team. [...]

Juniper Preps ‘New Network, Ready For The Cloud’

Juniper Preps ‘New Network, Ready For The Cloud’

[...] Juniper Networks is looking to network requirements for the next ten years after announcing its new network' initiative, that includes new processors and routers, and a revamp of its network operating system. [...] The second challenge is the expertise of the network, he said. With the connected culture, the challenge the network is to deliver richer and richer experience, whether you are connecting from a mobile handsets, television, laptop or smart phone. The network needs the intelligence to know where you are and how to deliver content to you. [...] The third challenge centres around economics, he said. There is no real surprise here, as networks nowadays have to do more with less. Every customer we talk to are asking us to take the complexity out of network, simplfy it, and do more with less. The economics are driving the cost out of the network. [...]

VOIP Grows Despite Recession | eWEEK Europe UK

[...] Placing fourth on the revenue growth list was engine, turbine and power transmission equipment manufacturing (10 percent), followed by scheduled bus service (9.2 percent), court reporting services (7.7 percent), community housing services (7.5 percent), search engines (6. [...]

Cisco Launches Giant Router | eWEEK Europe UK

Cisco Launches Giant Router | eWEEK Europe UK

[...] The system integrates with Cisco's Unified Computing System UCS, the system it offers to provide combined network and server systems in data centres, which it launched one year ago to good reviews but which competitors have derided. The CRS-3 also provides carrier-grade IPv6 services, along with layer 3 to 7 traffic information for optimisation purposes, and VPN services for cloud providers wanting to support customers securely. [...] Others noted that AT&T endorsed the product during the company's webcaset, keeping its huge contract for network infrastructure with Cisco. AT&T has tested CRS-3 in a field trial of 100 Gigabit backbone network technology, between New Orleans and Miami, and is planning to deliver fast backbones through more of the United States. [...] That may well be the right message for network operators who, it has been suggested, are risking overheating the Internet by delaying needed network upgrades to their backbones. Cisco is offering operators products for other parts of their networks also - last month, it was reported to be planning equipment for a 1Gbps broadband network, and in January it teamed up with Verizon to offer the so-called 4G mobile technology LTE. [...]

RSA: US Cybersecurity Plan Declassified | eWEEK Europe UK

[...] Manage the Federal Enterprise Network as a single network enterprise with Trusted Internet Connections. [...] So we believe this is particularly important in areas such as the CNCI, where there have been legitimate questions about sensitive topics and the role of the intelligence community in cyber-security, and how they can help us while still preserving civil liberties. [...] Talk is a lot cheaper than the billions spent on Asian monopolies of materials and electronic equipment. Without a full molecular review of hardware and a fast track manufacturing plan for the West in equipment& that is all it is& talk. It will have no effect whatsover on the real problem of an out of control software industry, built on the backs of deliberately insecure network systems. [...]

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