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Delivering on the Promise of Ethernet: MEF Services Using Ciena's FlexSelect Architecture: Today's medium and large businesses are faced with seemingly never-ending requirements for greater and more economical bandwidth and more IP-friendly Metropolitan and Wide Area Networks (MANs/WANs). As a result, enterprises increasingly are turning to service providers for Carrier Ethernet solutions. The Metro Ethernet Forum MEF, an influential industry organization, has...; Tags: Ethernet, Metro Ethernet, Service Provider, CIENA Communications, Business Services, WANs, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-05-01
Data Technologies in 3G Access Networks: Meeting the Demand for New Mobile Services: Service providers are moving toward a model where anything that can be performed on a current IP network today, can be performed on a 3G wireless network. Data is being driven into all aspects of mobile networks. For most mobile operators this means moving away from running packet-switched services over...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Mobile, Network, CIENA Communications, Data, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers 2005-12-04
SONET/SDH Optimizes DWDM Deployment: A Global 500 financial services firm faced a number of critical data storage and network infrastructure issues. The firm was generating a tremendous amount of transaction and collaborative data, creating new levels of storage requirements and pushing the network to 95% of installed capacity. Network performance was consistently degrading and...; Tags: Network, DWDM, SONET/SDH, CIENA Communications, Optical Networking, Fiber Optics, Networking, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware; Case studies
CIENA's CN 2000 Provides High Performance, Low Cost SRDF Extension for Business Continuance: Florida Power & Light FPL is one of the largest and fastest growing electric utilities in the United States. FPL's Energy Marketing & Trading and Energy Power Marketing Groups operate energy trading and asset optimization 24/7. These operations demand the highest availability systems possible, including a high performance storage extension...; Tags: High-performance, CIENA Communications, FPL, Leadership, Asset Management, Networking, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations; Case studies
Significant Cost Savings Through LAN and SAN Consolidation: A mid-size enterprise needed to consolidate LAN and SAN bandwidth requirements, while leveraging a single network connection to reduce networking costs, and maintain application performance through physical traffic isolation. CIENA's CN 2000 platform provided connectivity of both LAN and SAN traffic across a single SONET OC-3 link, lowering the cost...; Tags: Consolidation, SAN, CIENA Communications, Storage Area Networks (SAN), LANs, Storage Management, Storage, Network Technology, Networking, Hardware; Case studies

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NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?: So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...; Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam: Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Live Mesh, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app: Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...; Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom: Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United KingdomDatabasesSince you're paying attention... look at bills, proclamations, edicts, etc. in other parts of the world including the USA.The senate just passed a sweeping communications bill that has the same effect as the UK's "proposal". Seems that the G8 or some other organization...; Tags: Food & Beverage, Nate, Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2, Microsoft Windows NT; Discussion threads 2008-07-16
Voting For A McCain: SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons So, poor John McCain. At the start of the year, he gets bounced around because he is "not well versed" in economics. In summer, he gets beat up again, because he says he is "illiterate" about technology (and the way he expresses...; Tags: Innovation, Network, John McCain, Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Internet, Leadership, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom: In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain. The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...; Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Intel's Centrino 2 WiMAX could break the Luddite Telcos: Intel's Centrino 2 WiMAX could break the Luddite TelcosTotally agree with you.surely there are better ways than what telcos do, and i'd like to see. WiMAX is one.iPhone -- not even a trojan rabbit.Just to be clear, the iPhone is about transferring AT&T lock-in control from AT&T to...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Intel Corp., telecommunications company, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Intel Centrino 2, Intel Centrino; Discussion threads 2008-07-16
Twitter going commercial?: According to Mike Arrington, there is a commercial play for Twitter in the works. During a conversation with Ev Williams, Twitter co-founder: MA: What is your revenue model? Do you know yet? Have you thought about it? EW: We've thought about it. We had...; Tags: Twitter, E-mail, Operational Accounting, Productivity, Processors, Online Communications, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-16
XSS worm at Justin.tv infects 2,525 profiles: A XSS worm was crawling across Justin.tv, the popular lifecasting platform at the end of June, details of the incident emerged in the middle of last week. Basically, the group that found the XSS vulnerability abused it for the purpose of generating the following graph as a proof of concept,...; Tags: Vulnerability, XSS, Worm, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-14
Oracle joins iPhone mania: Last night, Oracle released Business Indicators on iTunes. It is a free client for the iPhone that provides top level information from business intelligence applications. Oracle is trying to appeal to a broad range of business users and claims the following examples: "Contact center ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Taxes, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Free Trade, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware, Components, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-11
The iPhone 3G rollout: Assessing the wild cards: Update 2:35 p.m. ET: Looks like one of these wild cards--the snafus--turned out to be a big issue today. We've got iBricks, struggling servers and other issues with the rollout. Jason O'Grady was first on the case from a store in Atlantic City, N.J. After a rough go at the...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-11
Live Webcast: Guide to Evaluating Two-Factor Solutions: If you're in the market for a two-factor solution, don't miss this live TechRepublic Webcast. Learn how to choose the two-factor solution that is the right for your business. During the webcast, we'll discuss the key drivers for a successful two-factor implementation, identify key evaluation criteria, and compare two-factor authentication...; Tags: Webcast, Two-factor Authentication, Positive Networks Inc., Authentication; Webcasts 2008-07-10
Blue Microphones Snowflake USB: To truly take advantage of computer-based communications such as VoIP and Skype, you'll eventually want to invest in a decent USB microphone. Unlike those cheap microphones that plug into your desktop computer's mic input, or the noisy microphone built into your laptop, a quality USB microphone like the Snowflake ($79)...; Tags: USB, Snowflake, microphone; Product reviews 2008-07-09
Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting: A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Next Microsoft enterprise instant messaging/VOIP server: Think 2009: During his July 9 keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, CEO Steve Ballmer shed a bit of light on what's in the Office Communications Server pipeline. Ballmer told attendees that Microsoft is readying a new release of OCS that will hit "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: VoIP, Steve Ballmer, Communications Server, Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Office Communicator, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-07-09