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NOC-NOC%2C+who%27s+there%3F+Or%2C+%22I%27ve+seen+the+thumbwheel+and+the+damage+done%22: NOC-NOC%2C+who%27s+there%3F+Or%2C+%22I%27ve+seen+the+thumbwheel+and+the+damage+done%22AbsolutelyI am still a BlackBerry fan but there is definitely a need for better redundancy at the NOC levelRE: NOC-NOC, who's there? Or,What if RIM send an army of PI's to dig your dirt and send them anonymous to everybody you know? What if RIM send an army of...; Tags: NOC-NOC, What-If; Discussion threads 2008-02-14

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Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond: Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...; Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-08-18
Larynx (exe): Larynx is a speech server and announcement system for Windows. Larynx accepts announcements via e-mail or the command line, and audibly announces them and displays them on screen. Originally designed for alert announcements within a Network Operation Center NOC, Larynx has also proven itself to be an effective replacement for...; Tags: Announcement, NOCturnalWare, Larynx, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications; Software downloads 2008-06-25
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition v12 - Central Site Installation: WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition is a powerful network management and application monitoring solution designed expressly for large enterprise organizations with complex multi-site networks. Reducing management complexity, the solution offers NOC-based views into infrastructure and applications. WhatsUp Gold Distributed leverages the extensive features of WhatsUp Gold Premium...; Tags: Ipswitch Inc., Network, Installation, Monitoring, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition, WhatsUp Gold Distributed, WhatsUp Central Site Installation, Networking; Download resources 2008-05-01
Zune + Yahoo! = Y!Phone: Conceptual Rendering by Brandon Perlow Over the last few months I've been thinking about how Yahoo! might be able to leverage its assets in order to better compete with Google. In another publication, I recently...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-04-14

Reporter's Notebook: Apple's iPhone SDK rollout: Cupertino — After the announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync services, and after the testimony by software developers — most of whom had never used a Macintosh or an iPhone — about the ease of coding with the new iPhone SDK, and after Apple...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Notebook, SDK, Apple Inc., Reporter, Games, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-03-06
Analyst: BlackBerry service glitches ignite "concerns," but no harm done (yet): I've just been sent a copy of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion stock analyst Mike Abramsky's brand new, quite detailed analysis on RIM. There's plenty to chew on in this RBC Capital Markets report. The first thing I wanted to know is Abramsky's take on...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Network Operations Center, RIM BlackBerry, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Sales, Online Communications, Hardware, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-19
NOC-NOC, who's there? Or, "I've seen the thumbwheel and the damage done": NOC= (Blackberry-maker Research In Motion's Network Operations Center in Waterloo, Ont.) As to the latter portion of this post's title, NOT an original. Readers of a certain vintage may recognize that saying as an adaptation from an old Neil Young song entitled "I've...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Outage, Tom, Manufacturing, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-13
Q&A: Explorer prepares for Arctic expedition: Q&A: Explorer prepares for Arctic expeditionSwimmingI am not an expert on artic exploration, but it seems like bringing an inflatable boat would make swimming unnecessary. Maybe something like this? http://www.noc.com/store/item_395.html?a=11; Tags: Arctic, EXPLORER; Discussion threads 2008-01-24
Media Cool (zip): Media Cool is new product of NOC. We're trying to solve this problem: Users can enjoy mp3/wma/youtube video, but have to be online, have to be limited. This is neither the hope of the download users, nor the hope of the publisher most of the time. They have this right...; Tags: Media, Media Cool, Internet, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-01-24
Comcast to cooperate in FCC Web traffic probe: Comcast to cooperate in FCC Web traffic probeDenial of service attack.Per Wikipedia:"A denial-of-service attack DoS attack or distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to, motives for and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it...; Tags: Modems, Network technology, DSL, Broadband Internet, SECURITY, network, FCC, Comcast Corp., cable, denial of service; Discussion threads 2008-01-09
Cisco Network Solutions for the Telco DCN: SONET/SDH OSI Environments: This paper is directed to Competitive Local Exchange Carriers CLECs, incumbent Local ExChange Carriers ILECs, and Post, Telephone and Telegraphs PTTs, collectively referred to as telcos short for telephone companies. This paper describes Cisco network solutions for transporting data between Synchronous Optical Network SONET and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy SDH and...; Tags: Network Solutions Inc., Operations Support System, Network, Telecommunications Company, SONET/SDH, Cisco Systems Inc., Networking, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications; White papers 2008-01-03
CommandCenter-NOC (zip): The CommandCenter NOC performs network monitoring with a powerful polling engine, keeping close watch on your Windows servers, Linux/UNIX servers, network devices and applications. It can also continually monitor the performance of your network using configurable thresholds. If an outage is detected, or a threshold is crossed, the appropriate staff...; Tags: Raritan Computer, Network, CommandCenter-NOC, Networking, Servers, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-11-02
Comcast's internal "so you have an angry customer"memo: what a buncha condescending...: Comcast's internal "so you have an angry customer"memo: what a buncha condescending...It isn't condesending...Russell,I understand that you may view that memo as condescending and other unprintable words.As a tech support engineer for over 20 years, the excepts of the above memo are [u]exactly[/u] the strategies and techniques that have been...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Comcast Corp., Tier 1; Discussion threads 2007-10-11
Microsoft Webcast: Network Security Management With Visio Professional 2007 (Level 200): The attendee of this webcast will learn how to visualize, analyze, and communicate complex IT systems and processes with Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007. Microsoft Office Visio is a great IT tool that enables to convert static diagrams to dynamic visual dashboards. It demonstrates how Visio Professional 2007 can help...; Tags: Microsoft Visio, Security, Webcast, Network, Information Technology, Network Security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Visio, Digital Media, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management; Webcasts 2007-10-03
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition v11 -- Remote Site Installation: WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition is a powerful network management and application monitoring solution designed expressly for large enterprise organizations with complex multi-site networks. Reducing management complexity, the solution offers NOC-based views into infrastructure and applications. WhatsUp Gold Distributed leverages the extensive features of WhatsUp Gold Premium and...; Tags: Ipswitch Inc., Network, Installation, WhatsUp Gold Distributed Edition, WhatsUp Gold Distributed, WhatsUp Central Site Installation, Networking; Download resources 2007-09-11
Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea: Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...; Tags: photograph, Unmanned Vehicle, helicopter, catapult, aircraft, iRobot Corp., BAE Systems Plc., Northrop Grumman Corp., researcher, MLB, zoom, Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army, complement, camera, Mountain View, Iraq, robot, display, monitoring, government, image, Sony Corp., pho; Image galleries 2007-08-09
Guide to Next Generation SLA Management for IP Voice and Unified Communications: This paper is designed for any business that is operating or planning offer IP Telephony IPT or Voice over IP VoIP services either as part of a PBX refresh or as the foundation for Unified Communications. The paper describes why these are failing to fulfil the basic management need of...; Tags: SLA, Unified Communications, Psytechnics, IP, IP Voice, Telephony, VOIP, Service Level Management, Collaboration, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2007-08-01
A truly globetrotter robot: A British robotic submarine, Isis, has a very busy schedule these days. Last January, it was taking a 3-week Antarctic dive. In May, it was exploring a giant canyon just off the coast of Portugal. Its next mission will be the exploration of the Whittard Canyon, another deep submarine valley,...; Tags: Science &, Nature, Robotics, Engineering &, Innovation; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Intel readies massive multicore processors: Intel readies massive multicore processorsApplicability: Top 5...PleaseThis is a great milestone for chip development. However, what's the "payoff"? What do you do with a chip that has 80-96 processing cores? It challenging now with the possibility of 8 and 16.I'm not saying that this work is irrelevant...; Tags: Processors, Borkar, Polaris, processor, Intel Corp., FP MAC, memory, multi-core processor; Discussion threads 2007-06-14