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Going Green by Reducing Watts: A Step by Step Guide
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As an industry, we waste a ton of Watts and generate a lot of smoke to move packets around. By some estimates, IT comprised 2% of world’s emissions. While at first glance this figure might seem small, it is in fact on par with the CO2 produced by the airlines. Reducing Watts is an area that IT can get a handle on and one that can have the greatest amount of impact.
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The Basis for Advanced Broadband Services: Deep Session Inspection
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Most broadband facilities are used to carry a single service in which all packets are treated identically. This is consistent with the original "end-to-end" design philosophy of the Internet as well as more recent policy statements by regulators. But both the internet design philosophy and regulatory positioning reflect a world in which all applications are fundamentally similar in nature: data applications able to withstand packet loss and placing no demand on the network in terms of latency or latency variation. But this is no longer the world we live in. And this is where deep session inspection (DSI) comes into play.
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Carbon Neutral Networks -- The ICT Sector Goes Green
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The ICT sector, as one of the world's leading business sectors, has a global responsibility to ensure that its networks are carbon neutral. One of the ways by which a carbon-neutral environment can be achieved is by utilizing multi-service platforms, rather than single-purpose equipment in the network.
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Low-Cost Next Generation Metro Architectures for Carrier Ethernet Services
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The challenge facing metro network planners is to find the most cost-effective way to deliver profitable services in the near-term while deploying a network flexible enough to support an array of new services in the future. Here's a quick look at MPLS, VPLS, and metro Ethernet Transport.
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Thinking Broadly About Broadband Stimulus
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The new broadband stimulus package provides important opportunities for people in unserved and underserved areas to reap the many benefits of high-quality broadband services. The question on everyone’s mind, of course, is how to make best use of the $7.2 billion in funds that will be committed to broadband projects over the next 18 months
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Sustainable Mobility: Strategies for Green Wireless
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The evolution of mobility technologies has allowed us to do things faster, smarter, and cheaper. Mobility and wireless technologies increase employee productivity by virtualizing the collaborative experience. Employees can move between workspaces while remaining connected to their colleagues and information systems. Yet an often overlooked aspect of mobility is the benefit it brings in helping businesses reduce their carbon footprints.
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Location, Location, Location: <br>The Future of Lawful Intercept
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Imagine a group of criminals embarking on a crime spree throughout a city. Using mobile phones they coordinate their actions from miles away, sharing information to evade law enforcement agencies (LEA) and map out an escape route. But there’s a twist. The LEAs are well-coordinated as well, quickly securing a warrant to tap into the criminals’ wireless communications. In addition to listening in on their conversations and data transmissions by intercepting them, the law enforcement agency is able to precisely pinpoint the locations of the handsets sending and receiving the transmissions.
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Sobering Realities of Enforcing NAC: Top 5 Challenges that Solutions Need to Address
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Is Network Access Control living up to the hype? Despite the general acceptance that something is needed to secure mobile and unmanaged endpoints connecting to the network, NAC pre-connect solutions face a number of challenges. Here is a look.
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Reliable Client Connectivity in Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Networks
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Ensuring user satisfaction in metro-scale Wi-Fi networks involves more than just deploying large numbers of nodes. A number of other factors are at least as important. For example, the links between the mesh and the Internet matter. What users do on the network matters. And, more than anything, client connectivity matters.
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Combating the Evolution of Insider Attacks with Persistent LAN Security
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In just a few years, attack patterns have evolved from shotgun approaches like mass-mailer viruses to sophisticated, targeted attacks. The new pattern in these attacks is abundantly clear: financial gain. And the culprits are increasingly the organization's"insiders"—the employees, contractors and business partners working inside the network's perimeter protections. This article examines the concept of persistant LAN security.
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