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- Service-Optimized Ethernet Solutions Are Critical to Achieving Carrier Business Transformation Goals
- For the next 2 to 3 years, business model transformation will remain the single most important trend among all types of communications service providers worldwide. Whether the company is thought of today as an incumbent telco, cable company, wireless carrier or content provider, business model transformation is a critical first...
- Tags: Wireless Carrier, Telecommunications Company, Cable Company, Cable, Service-Optimized Ethernet Solution, Business Model Transformation, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless
- White papers 2007-02-01
Additional Resources
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs
- Whatever the size of your wallet, every living room should have a respectable television set. Good news: HDTVs are cheaper, bigger and better than ever. Here are my top five picks for this year. Splurge: Samsung UNB8500 Series ...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Video, 1080p, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Lexmark Platinum Pro 905
- Businesses shopping for a new multifunction printer already have enough decisions to make without throwing a touch-screen option into the mix, but most of the big printer vendors already have models with one or one in the works. We've reviewed the Brother MFC-990CW and the HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless,...
- Tags: Printers, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, printer, Platinum Pro 905, touch screen, Lexmark International Inc.
- Product reviews 2009-09-25
- Moxi Mate adds multi-room support for Moxi HD DVR
- Being able to watch shows recorded by a DVR on any TV in the house will be the norm in a few years, but today it's still news whenever a device is announced that adds multi-room support to your home video setup. Digeo has tried to crash the...
- Tags: Home Video, Digeo, Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him. Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- TV's future: the partnerships are forming now
- In just the last few days, there were a few news announcements that, separately, were kind of ho-hum. But together, it appears that the stars are suddenly starting to align for the next generation of television, one that's more of an on-demand Internet-based experience, instead of a schedule-driven feed from...
- Tags: Partnership, TiVo Inc., Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- MediaSmart Server LX195
- Ranging between $375 and $399, the 640GB HP MediaSmart Server LX195 is the best sub-$400 NAS server you can find in terms of value, performance, and features. It comes with a great set of features and a remote connection that's easy to set up and use. The server can automatically...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, power button, MediaSmart Server LX195, NAS, NAS server, HP MediaSmart, HP MediaSmart Server, server
- Product reviews 2009-05-27
- D-Link turns every power outlet into wall-to-wall network
- D-Link turns every power outlet into wall-to-wall network...nothing newI've had this running in my home for about a year now...I mean, I get that this may be a new product for D-Link, but don't go making it sound like they've invented something new here. They're just catching on, there are...
- Tags: Home networking, Overall IT, D-Link Systems, power outlet, network
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
- Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...
- Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for usIsn't the main advantage of "The Cloud" being Cross Platform Comp.The main reasons I can think of to use the cloud rather than a desktop app is being able to access from basically any web connected computer. If you have to have...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Amazon.com Inc., computer, Open Cloud Manifesto, Amazon Web Services, Web service
- Discussion threads 2009-03-27
- Synology DS209+ NAS server
- Last year, we reviewed Synology's DS107+, which earned our Editors' Choice award for its vast amount of features, great expandability, and top-notch user interface. The DS209+ impressed us even more by offering those aforementioned attributes, plus RAID configurations and unprecedented throughput speed. The unit unfortunately lacks what the DS107+ also...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, DS209+ NAS server, RAID
- Product reviews 2009-02-24
- Transition to Ethernet at Your Own Pace
- The newest generation of cellular systems is about to change the way one communicates forever. A revolutionary service model and technology has been developed, which will provide users with any service, anywhere, at any time. For this reason, carriers around the globe are on the threshold of a predestined shift...
- Tags: Network, ECI Telecom Ltd., Ethernet, Networking
- White papers 2009-02-01
- 2Wire MediaPoint Digital Media Player w/ Blockbuster OnDemand
- Blockbuster Video has had a rough transition to the 21st century, thanks in large part to Netflix. That flat-fee, subscription-based DVD-by-mail concern became the first major challenge to Blockbuster's once lucrative brick and mortar storefronts--a business model that was based largely on profits derived from late fees. Then, just as...
- Tags: TVs, Corporate communications, TV & Home Theater, Media players, Wi-Fi, on-demand, media player, 2Wire, Blockbuster Inc., NetFlix Inc.
- Product reviews 2009-01-28
- Converged Optical Ethernet: OnSite OS-10 Multi-Services Over SDH Provisioning
- Most service providers have existing SDH networks that have proven indispensable in serving revenue-critical TDM-based private line services. SDH is firmly established as the technology of choice for general-purpose transport in telecom networks because of its flexibility, reliability, ease of provisioning and multi-vendor interoperability. The advancements of SDH technology, embodied...
- Tags: Ethernet, Network, SDH, Patton Electronics, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Networking, Telecommunications
- White papers 2009-01-26
- North Wiltshire District Council Dials 3Com Networked Telephony for Customer-Focused Voice Communication With a Great Future
- North Wiltshire District Council NWDC is the local government authority for North Wiltshire, England. In autumn 2001, North Wiltshire District Council initiated a strategic re-organisation that would result in a structure capable of delivering a responsive, high-quality customer service equal to that of the best commercial companies. NWDC needed a...
- Tags: Telephony, 3Com Corp., North Wiltshire District Council, Ethernet, Product Marketing, Networking, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Addressing virtualization's achilles heel
- The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Virtualization, Network Interface Card, Blade, Achilles Heel, VM, Networking, Servers, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- One Router to Connect Them All
- Sunday afternoons are the few times I actually get some peace and don't have to think about major IT problems. I fire up my Weber smoker, throw on a couple of racks of ribs, fire up a bucket of hardwood charcoal and fruit wood chunks, and I chill for a...
- Tags: Cable Modem, Router, Linksys Inc., Dad, Modems, Cable, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Networking, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- The astounding $14million Ethernet extender
- I was helping a friend find a good price on a powerline Ethernet extender like the one I bought a few months ago, and stumbled upon this bargain: Luckily I found one cheaper here: When I...
- Tags: Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- T-Mobile @Home
- When T-Mobile introduced its HotSpot @Home service last year, we praised it for finally freeing us from the tyranny of the landline. The service lets you make and receive calls via Wi-Fi as long as you have a compatible cell phone in addition to the regular cell...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, NETWORKING, Cellular phones, phone, router, T-Mobile, SIM card, @Home
- Product reviews 2008-06-26
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