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Transitioning the Public Internet to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

IPv6 was developed to improve on its predecessor protocol, addressing many of the limitations that became apparent as the Internet grew. However, to generate improvements, a completely new protocol that was not backwards-compatible with the existing IPv4 specification was required. This created a technological hurdle that few have been willing...

Tags: IPv6, Public Internet, IP, Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-07-01

Developing a Video Over IP Internet Broadcasting Network

RTVI is a 24-hour Russian language TV network that serves a worldwide Russian-speaking audience. The challenge was that the public internet is not perfect; in fact, after monitoring the IP video circuit between Moscow and New York, it can be seen that there are over 1,000 lost packets per hour,...

Tags: Public Internet, IP, Video, Path 1, RTVI, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Networking, Marketing

Case studies 2008-06-26

Foundry Helps World's Largest Public Internet Exchange Reach Historic Milestone

As the world's largest public Internet exchange, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange AMS-IX's average peak-traffic growth over the last few years has increased 100 percent per year, essentially doubling year-over-year. This considerable amount of traffic led to AMS-IX's search for a networking solution that could handle massive amounts of switching volume...

Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Scalability, Public Internet

Case studies 2007-06-01

The power of PI: the rise of community owned Public Internets

From my news story: "San Francisco activist groups rally against Google/Earthlink "monopoly" deal for free WiFi " Several San Francisco activist groups and non-profit internet companies have joined together to protest a proposed deal between the city and a Google/Earthlink partnership to provide free WiFi. Called the Public Net San...

Tags: Trend watch, New Rules, Google Inc., Internet, Public Internet

Blog posts 2007-01-29

FBI's "right" to pick your Internet apps

On Cnet's VOIP Blog, Declan McCullaugh points to an "obscure policy document" PDF released late last Friday, in which the FCC quietly gives the FBI the right to approve or disapprove of what applications people use. One of the four principles this document announces says, "Consumers are entitled to run...

Tags: FCC, Internet

Blog posts 2005-09-27

Better VPN survivability needed for VoIP

In a recent story on a McDonald's pilot project that leverages DSL, the public Internet, and VoIP,thefast food chainseeks to gain efficiency by consolidating drive-through order takers to a centralized call center. Based on the results, the project illustrates why the "IP" in VoIP still stands more for "Internet Protocol"...

Tags: VPN, VoIP, public Internet, ISDN

Blog posts 2005-02-01

Additional Resources

Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line" when it comes to the data it gathers. CEO Eric Schmidt told Fox Business last week that "we're trying not to cross what we call the creepy line"...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Google, privacy, Tom Krazit CNET News

News items 2009-11-09

News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Twitter and web forgery

Fools spewing private dataThese sites are for foolish people who do notunderstand putting your personal life on apublic Internet and the fact your data is NOT owned by you anylonger.RE: Twitter and web forgeryTrust and identity is a glaring missing piece on Internet. Eventually someone has to provide something to...

Tags: web forgery, Twitter Inc., Web

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Xobni expands to include enterprise but where are Web, Mobile and even Mac versions

Search tools more than important!!!Good that mostly everbody knows that in business life nothing works without e-mail and even that important is a reliable and fast search tool for Outlook! One of those is Lookeen It has so many features which lighten your work that is amazing. It works with...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mail.app, Entourage, Web, Xobni, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law

how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Mozilla goes back to the beta with Firefox 3.6

Oh bother. Does this mean Firefox 3.5 is buggy and insecure?Having used Firefox since 0.6 I find 3.5 to be one of the less stable versions. I hope that they get the bugs out for 3.6.3 things this version must have or it may fall too far behind1. SELinux/AppArmor...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Firefox 3.6, beta, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Apple TV update looks good but doesn't offer much more

I second your thoughts, Sam.The updates were nice, but hardly worth it from the functional standpoint. Yes, Netflix would be nice, although iTunes provides most, if not all, of what Netflix would, doesn't it?One thing Tim Cook mentioned during the most recent earnings call was that Apple was going to...

Tags: INTERNET, Apple TV, Internet radio, Apple Inc., TV, NetFlix Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Remember when FrontPage seemed pretty slick?

My school teaches...... web design in the conventional way. Intro classes cover HTML, CSS, using JQuery modules or writing basic js. Advances classes teach PHP and such. None of the classes I know of cover CMS.I had a summer internship where I used Drupal. I didn't do any of the...

Tags: Content management, CSS, Enterprise software, KompoZer, content management system, Microsoft FrontPage, CMS system

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Let's do this now, why wait?

Okay that makes no sense at allThe people paying the energy bills for these buildings aren't the same people who would benefit from preserving the status quo.Perhaps he'd get more traction if he changed his company to a non profit staffed 100% with non paid volunteers that wrote and gave...

Tags: Vertical industries, Investment, government

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Firefox hit by multiple drive-by download flaws

Thank god I am still using 3.0.xxxI still don't understand why the need to make all things software larger and more featured. Also I will never understand why people rush to use the latest larger, bloated package...Bigger is always better......that's why we're fat! =DIE still more secure than FF...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, JavaScript, NoScript, Microsoft Corp., Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

What the DoD now says about open source

I could just see a commander in the field ....having to wait for procurement to get a simple map through bids while his troops are getting shot up even though it is publicly available (oh wait, isn't that how the Chinese embassy got accidentally bombed?)Always use the best tool for...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, U.S. Department of Defense, open source, OpenBSD, attack

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

MyCafeCup Platinum 2.22 build 2264 (Windows)

Internet cafe software and cybercafe software from MyCafeCup is a software solution for operating cyber cafe and gaming shops. Although it is designed for an Internet cyber cafe shop, it can be used for your intranet or for public access tracking as in a library, school or Public WiFi HotSpot....

Tags: Cafe, MyCafeCup Software, MyCafeCup Server, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-27