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A Software Architecture for Cross-Layer Wireless Network Adaptations

Conventional data networks are based on a layered architecture. The introduction of wireless networks has created a need to violate this layered discipline to create cross-layer designs or adaptations. Ad-hoc implementations of such cross-layer adaptations reduce the level of modularity and abstraction in the network's implementation, giving rise to a...

Tags: Software, Network, Implementation, Adaptation, Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2006-09-08

IPNET: IPv4/IPv6 Dual-Mode TCP/IP Stack

Many of the Internet protocols have traditionally only been available to workstation-class computers without any resource constraints. Interpeak now introduces IPNET, a full featured IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, specifically designed to be used in modern embedded real time systems. Interpeak IPNET supports IPv6, which extends the current IP protocol specification in a...

Tags: Implementation, IP, IPNET IPv6 Implementation, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Networking, Network Technology, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers

Cross Campus Virtual Private Network (VPN): Tunnelling Case Study - The University of Liverpool

This case study provides a detailed overview of secure cross-campus VPN tunnelling between two collaborating organisations, namely the universities of Liverpool and Edinburgh. Implementation has allowed members of either university visiting the other campus to establish a secure connection to their own organisation using wireless infrastructure. The authentication takes place...

Tags: Implementation, Authentication, VPNs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Security

Case studies

Exploring the Performance of the Myrinet PC-Cluster on Linux

Both the Infiniband and the Virtual Interface Architecture VIA aim at providing effective cluster communication. However, the specification of the former does not define APIs. It contains an abstract description of the protocol verbs. The dependence of an implementation on the various features of the hardware, firmware, and software are...

Tags: Performance, Implementation, Specification, Virtual Interface Architecture, InfiniBand, Linux, Performance Management, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

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Additional Resources

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"

A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...

Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

46% of social networking users visited mobile social networks

According to ABI Research, 46% of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15% adoption mobile adoption. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "46%...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Mono 2.0...why not Microsoft?

The release of Mono version 2.0, the open source implementation of .NET that is available for use on Mac, Linux and Windows platforms, is an achievement in itself. I often wonder, however, why Microsoft has no interest in releasing a cross-platform, fully-supported version of the .NET framework themselves. by...

Tags: Mono, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-06

IBM and social networking

Once you commit to using Bluehouse, and you can be committed through a business partner, you're in with IBM Lotus Foundations and working in its cloud. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Network, IBM Corp., Bluehouse, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-06

IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx

IBM will announce Monday that it is launching a beta of "Bluehouse," a social networking and collaboration service designed to link businesses with various partners. The move, part of a broader effort to define IBM's cloud computing strategy, will put it in direct competition with Cisco's collaboration...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Beta, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-05

Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom

After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...

Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

More on wikipedia abuse

The evidence on wikipedia abuse is piling up - and we're not even starting to really discuss some of the risks other social networking sites are exposing us to. It's not exactly armageddon time yet, but it's certainly time to wake up and smell trouble, big trouble, coming. by Paul...

Tags: Wikipedia, Byrne, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Velocity 103

We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch

Product reviews 2008-10-03

Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'

Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'Sounds cool! NT.Let me dust off my TerminalSounds like we're going back to the Stone Age. Back in my terminal days, there was a screen and keyboard. The server was in the basement of the building and tons of serial cable connections. This type...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Pay-Per-Use Taxi, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, server, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...

Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Dell Inspiron 1525-139B

Note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Dell's Inspiron 1525 is an excellent mainstream choice for basic computing, especially because the direct-from-Dell version is highly flexible, offering extensive configuration options. For those...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Inspiron 1525, Dell 1525, Dell Inspiron, laptop computer, Intel Pentium, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-02

iPrez: Obama releases app grassroots organizing app

Get-out-the-vote campaigns have been cellphone-based for some time now. So what makes more sense than leveraging iPhone cool to put a calling app right on people's phones? That's what the Obama campaign did today, News.com reports,with an iPhone app that "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, App, Obama, Congress+, Corporate Communications, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-02