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NHS Connecting for Health Transforms Management of Patient Data to Optimize Quality of Service Delivery

NHS Connecting for Health wanted to build a planning and management architecture for the National Programme for IT NPfIT, a US$21.05 billion (GB£12.7 billion) multiproject initiative to transform service delivery through technology and manage 10-year rollout of NPfIT to over 300 hospitals (270 general, acute hospitals) in England to give...

Tags: Patient, QoS, Hospital, Oracle Corp., Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-11-01

AT&T: 'Over the hump' of quality of service problems?

AT&T has 10 months.Any improvements would be nice, but the fact is that for me unless things get an order of magnitude better by July 2010 the [i]least[/i] I'll do is go month to month. If another carrier, especially Verizon, gets the iPhone before then I'll switch in a heartbeat....

Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Pricing, QoS, AT&T Corp., phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

AT&T: 'Over the hump' of quality of service problems?

AT&T is "definitely on the uptrend" on quality of service improvements and should be "over the hump" by the end of the year, said an AT&T executive. John Stankey, President & CEO, AT&T Operations, made the comments at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2009 Media, Communications...

Tags: QoS, AT&T Corp., HSPA, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-09

The IGEPA Group Improves Quality of Service With Access to Accurate, Up-to-Date Customer Information

The IGEPA Group wanted to replace the company's legacy Customer Relationship Management CRM solution to meet the growing demands of the group's day-to-day business activities and integrate the new CRM solution with the company's existing Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system. The challenge was to expand CRM capabilities to provide insight...

Tags: QoS, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2009-08-01

In 'Everything as a Service' era, quality of services and processes grows paramount, says HP's Purohit

IT's job is evolving to make sure all services really work deep inside of business process -- regardless of their origins and sourcing. Quality of component services is therefore assurance of quality processes, and so the foundation of general business conduct and productivity. by Dana Gardner

Tags: QoS, Hewlett-Packard Co., Service, Purchasing & Procurement, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-24

TANDBERG and Packet Loss

This paper is intended to describe the packet loss robustness features available with TANDBERG's products. These features include: Intelligent Packet Loss RecoveryTF IPLRTF, Downspeeding, Quality of Service QoS. The above mentioned features are all available on the following products: TANDBERG MCU 16+16 / 8+8, TANDBERG GW, TANDBERG 8000, TANDBERG 7000,...

Tags: QoS, Video, Tandberg, IPLR Feature, Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2009-06-17

MySpeed SVR Xpress 1.0b (Windows)

MySpeed SVR Express enables you to quickly and easily provide bandwidth testing services on your website, so your visitors can test their connection speeds to your server. Download and upload speeds are accurately measured by timing actual data transfers between your web server and visitors. The consistency of download data...

Tags: Web Server, QoS, Microsoft Windows, Speed, Visualware, MySpeed SVR Express, Web Servers, Servers, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-17

An Authentication Scheme for QoS-Aware Multi-Operator Maintained Wireless Mesh Networks

This paper considers QoS aware mesh networks that are maintained by multiple operators and they cooperate in the provision of networking services to the mesh clients. In order to support mobile users and seamless handover between the access points, the authentication delay has to be reduced. Many proposed fast authentication...

Tags: QoS, Mesh Networking, Network, Authentication, Wireless, Security

White papers 2009-06-15

Towards Quality of Service in the Cloud

Quality of Service QoS plays a critical role in the affective reservation of resources within service oriented distributed systems and has been widely investigated in the now well established paradigm of Grid Computing. The emergence of a new paradigm, Cloud Computing, continues the natural evolution of Distributed Systems to cater...

Tags: QoS, Grid Computing, University Of Leeds, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Network Technology, It Management, Networking, It service Management

White papers 2009-06-10

A Survey of MAC Based QoS Implementations for WiMAX Networks

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of proposed Quality of Service QoS mechanisms in the Media Access Control MAC sublayer of WiMAX based wireless networks. QoS support in WiMAX is a fundamental design requirement, and is considerably more difficult than in wired networks, mainly because of the variable and unpredictable...

Tags: QoS, MAC, Reed Elsevier Inc., Survey, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-06-10

Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks for Realtime Multimedia Applications-Reuse of Virtual Circuits

Routing places an important role in determining the quality of service in wireless networks. The routing methods adopted in wireless networks have many drawbacks. This paper aims to review the current routing methods used in wireless networks. This paper proposes an innovative solution to overcome the problems in routing. This...

Tags: Multimedia, QoS, Mobile, Network, Wireless Network, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

White papers 2009-06-08

Beamforming Teams Up With MIMO to Enhance Mobile WiMAX Network Value

Off late competitive environment, operators are focused on improving the value of their network as well as the user experience. By enhancing the main components of any SLA Service Level Agreement - coverage, capacity and QoS Quality of Service - Mobile WiMAX provides operators with a highly reliable and affordable...

Tags: SLA, QoS, Alvarion Ltd., Mobile, Network, MIMO, Wireless Broadband, WiMAX, Service Level Management, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Broadband Internet, It Operations, It service Management, Telecommunications

White papers 2009-06-08

Exploring Efficient Imperative Handover Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

The Next Generation Internet will provide ubiquitous computing by the seamless operation of heterogeneous wireless networks. It will also provide support for quality-of-service, QoS, fostering new classes of applications and will have a built-in multi-level security environment. A key requirement of this new infrastructure will be support for efficient vertical...

Tags: QoS, Mechanism, Network, Middlesex University, Wireless Network, Wireless, Y-Comm, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-06-05

Allegro Group Ensures Enterprise Scalability With Flexible, Integrated Data Warehouse Solution

Allegro Group wanted to build a scalable enterprise data warehouse that meets business users' performance and quality of service expectations and deliver a single point of truth with integrated metadata, from data integration through to enterprise reporting tools. The challenge was to provide flexible reporting and analysis tools, including sophisticated...

Tags: Data Warehouse, QoS, Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Dashboard, Online Auction, Performance Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical

Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer Quality of Service QoS. They demand extreme and predictable performance, unlimited and linear scalability, continuous availability, efficient manageability and automatic/dynamic infrastructure provisioning at a...

Tags: QoS, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-06-01

An Intelligent Technique to Improve Quality of Service (QoS) in Multihomed Mobile Networks

The usage of mobile network is significantly growing and it can be used in mobile platforms such as airplane, train, bus, car, etc. It is very useful for day-to-day activities of human beings. A mobile network can be connected to the Internet anywhere at anytime. But all these comforts depend...

Tags: Technique, Mobile Network, QoS, Mobile, Network, Integrity Solutions, Mobile Network Interface, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

White papers 2009-06-01

CacheGuard Appliance 5.4.2 (Windows)

CacheGuard is an OS/Appliance dedicated to Web traffic Security and QoS. It transforms a x86-based machine into a powerful Web Gateway Appliance. It allows you to protect Web surfers and Web servers by acting as a network filter. Also all Web traffics crossing the CacheGuard Appliance are optimized to save...

Tags: Web, QoS, HTTP, Load Balancing, Microsoft Windows, Content Filtering, OneTec, CacheGuard, Web Servers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-05-19

Predictive QoS Routing to Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks

The paper presents an algorithm for data delivery to mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks. The algorithm is based on information potentials, which one extends to account for mobility. The paper shows that for local movement along edges in the communication graph, the information potentials can be adapted using a...

Tags: QoS, Mobile, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Mobility, Wireless, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-04-16

Lean IT Transformation: Reduce Total Cost of Ownership, Guarantee Quality-of-Service and Achieve Business Agility

Organizations have made huge investments in IT infrastructure and are continuously spending on maintenance, upgrades and related administration & management. Lean IT Transformation is an approach for creating new cost-effective, agile and flexible IT service models by switching from company-owned IT hardware, software & services to per-use based models. It...

Tags: Cloud Computing, QoS, Information Technology, TCO, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-04-01

A Vertical Media-Independent Handover Decision Algorithm Across Wi-Fi and WiMAX Networks

The hybrid networks of Wi-Fi and WiMAX networks can provide high data rate and enhanced multimedia services, but it is challenging to obtain optimized handover decision based dynamic QOS information. Users can improve their perceived QOS by using the terminal-controlled handover decision in a single device equipped with multiple radio...

Tags: Algorithm, QoS, IEEE, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-02-05