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- Smart Antenna Systems
- A smart antenna system combines multiple antenna elements with a signal-processing capability to optimize its radiation and/or reception pattern automatically in response to the signal environment.What does an antenna do in a telecommunications system? It is the port through which radio frequency RF energy is coupled from the transmitter to...
- Tags: International Engineering Consortium, Radio Frequency, Signal Processing, Telephony, Network Technology, Networking
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- Internet Telephony
- Internet telephony refers to communications services—voice, facsimile, and/or voice-messaging applications—that are transported via the Internet, rather than the public switched telephone network PSTN. The basic steps involved in originating an Internet telephone call are conversion of the analog voice signal to digital format and compression/translation of the signal into Internet...
- Tags: Telephony, International Engineering Consortium, IP Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
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- Fundamentals of Telecommunications
- Sometimes, when attending a class, it is okay to miss the first half-hour. After all, we do know something about the subject, and that first half-hour is likely to carry little more than introductory information. The same holds true when picking up a textbook on a particular subject. Maybe the...
- Tags: Chapter, International Engineering Consortium, Tutorial, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Telecommunications, VOIP, Channel Management, Networking, Marketing
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- Intranets and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- Private networking involves securely transmitting corporate data across multiple sites throughout an entire enterprise. Creating a truly private corporate network generally requires an intranet. A virtual private network VPN is one means of accomplishing such an implementation using the public Internet.This tutorial explores the benefits of a private corporate network...
- Tags: International Engineering Consortium, Network, Intranet, WANs, Networking, VPNs, Network Technology, Network Security, Telecommunications, Security
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- Network Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI) Delivering Intelligent Network (IN) Services
- A network computer-telephony integration CTI is the delivering of computer and telephone integration capabilities inside the network. Two major market forces and architectural frameworks are merging to create the most explosive network services opportunities of the late 1990s. Enterprise computer telephony integration ECTI applications and advanced intelligent network AIN...
- Tags: Computer Telephony Integration, International Engineering Consortium, Network, Call-center, Integration, Call Centers, Telephony, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Networking, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Signaling System 7 (SS7)
- Signaling System 7 (SS7) is an architecture for performing out-of-band signaling in support of the call-establishment, billing, routing, and information-exchange functions of the public switched telephone network PSTN. It identifies functions to be performed by a signaling-system network and a protocol to enable their performance.Signaling refers to the exchange of...
- Tags: Phone, International Engineering Consortium, Network, PSTN, Signaling System 7, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
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- Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- An Internet-based virtual private network VPN uses the open, distributed infrastructure of the Internet to transmit data between corporate sites.This tutorial addresses the basic architecture and enabling technologies of a VPN. The benefits and applications of VPNs are also explored. Finally, this tutorial discusses strategies for the deployment and implementation...
- Tags: International Engineering Consortium, VPNs, Network Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Security
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- Web Hosting
- The World Wide Web WWW, a web of worldwide servers connected to the Internet, provides an easily used and understood method of accessing electronic content. Accessing information requires data communication between a Web-browser client and a Web-server application. Web hosting, then, is a means of hosting the Web-server application on...
- Tags: International Engineering Consortium, Web Hosting, Internet
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- July 4th, 2008: A trip down memory lane
- A 1 question civics quiz Today American's celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the legal foundation of the USA and, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of the United States. I revere the Constitution as a magnificent piece of political engineering. But it...
- Tags: U.S., President, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign
- A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what looks like over five different exploits attempt to automatically infect the visitors next to the malware binary fireworks.exe. Historically, Storm...
- Tags: Software, Malware, Worm, Exploit, Storm Worm, Day Vulnerability, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds
- Why tech jobs are beating the employment oddsCan somebody tell me whenan economist has ever called it right? Every piece of economic news includes the line "more than" or "less than" what economists predicted.Why do we even listen to these folks?I'd have just put it more brutally...US companies have wanted...
- Tags: employment odd, tech job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security. Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...
- Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Strategy, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-03
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...
- Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Viacom Inc., Google IP, YouTube Inc., IP, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests
- Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests"Pentest"?Was ist das? Ach du lieber, here it is. Found the following using Google:Definitions of pentest on the Web in German:Ein Penetrationstest ist* in der Netzwerktechnik eine Methode, Sicherheitsschwachstellen festzustellen, siehe Penetrationstest Informatik* in ...A "penetration test". Hadn't...
- Tags: social engineering, identity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference
- Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada. The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track. Topics...
- Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
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