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- (1) A mechanical or electronic device that directs the flow of electrical or optical signals from one side to the other. Switches with more than two ports, such as...
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- Bright Light Touch (Mobile)
- Light up your device, you can use it as a torch! Turn on the camera flash by sliding the on-screen switch.
- Software downloads 2009-10-01
- Switchwatch 1.0 (Windows)
- SwitchWatch is an application that will report the port usage on Cisco switches, allowing you to tidy up all those cables cluttering your patch panels that haven't been used for months.How it works? Its all quite simple really. You give the application details (ip, user name and password) of your...
- Software downloads 2009-02-09
- High-Radix Crossbar Switches Enabled by Proximity Communication
- The paper describes a novel way to implement high-radix crossbar switches. The work is enabled by a new chip interconnect technology called Proximity Communication PxC that offers unparalleled chip IO density. First, the paper shows how a crossbar architecture is topologically mapped onto a PxC-enabled Multi-Chip Module MCM. Then, the...
- White papers 2008-11-21
- Action Blox 1.01 (Mobile)
- Challenge your wit as you tumble a rectangular block through each stage and deposit it into the square hole at the end. Solve puzzles by utilizing a series of bridge-opening switches, teleporters, and block-splitting switches, to exit each stage and move on to the next brain twisting level.
- Software downloads 2008-08-20
- Binary DIP-Switch Calc 1.0 (Mobile)
- Here's a simple to use ultility for Binary DIP-Switch Devices. Features a nine position (0-512) binary dip switch. For values 0-256, refer to switches 1-8. HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: Pick a starting DEVICE ADDRESS (example: 205), the DIP switch graphic will change as you enter these numbers in...
- Software downloads 2008-08-13
- Realizing High-Port-Density 10GbE Networks
- Next-generation switches need high port densities to handle intense growth in data-center traffic, yet even the most highly integrated switch chips cannot provide enough ports in a single chip. By taking advantage of available network topologies, however, developers can implement switches with densities of 32, 48 or more ports that...
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Mac.com, ahem, MobileMe is down for maintenance
- As Apple recently announced, Mac.com is currently offline pending the switch over to MobileMe. It was supposed to happen at 6pm PT but that was bumped back to 8pm PT and the service didn't actually go offline until closer to 9PT. I can't wait for the new MobileMe...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Blade's "rackonomics" approach to data center cooling
- I love it when companies pitch me because they've been reading this blog and have something that they think one-ups something I've already written about. Thus was the case with Blade Network Technologies, an upstart in the blade networking space working closely with blade giants IBM, NEC and Hewlett-Packard. (Others...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- CSSOC - Content Services Switch Operation and Configuration
- View Available Dates and LocationsThis comprehensive 5-day Cisco Authorized course provides you with the required knowledge on technologies and products essential for high-speed content network switching applications. This 11000 Series Operation and Configuration class provides you with intensive hands-on training using Cisco's 11050, 11150, 11800, and...
- Training 2008-01-01
- Configuring the Switch for the Firewall Services Module
- This paper describes how to configure the Catalyst 6500 series switch or the Cisco 7600 series router for use with the Firewall Services Module FWSM. Before completing the procedures in this paper, configure the basic properties of the switch, including assigning VLANs to interfaces, according to the documentation that came...
- White papers 2007-05-16
- Design and Implementation of GMPLS-Basd Optical Slot Switching Network With PLZT High-Speed Optical Switch
- This paper proposes a new optical network architecture, called Optical Slot Switching OSS, suitable for large data transmission where it uses PLZT optical switch controlled by GMPLS(Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching). PLZT ultra-high speed optical switch can improve the bandwidth efficiency by reducing the guard time between data compared with the...
- White papers 2007-03-27
- Windows, take your kill switches, interrupts, reboots AND Registry: and stuff it
- Im at a big VoIP trade show that starts tomorrow. Come here and youll get plenty of VoIP.But right now, I am cranky. And when bloggers get cranky, ooh boy, better watch out. Kill switches are NEVER, EVER OK.My colleague David Berlind makes a very true and valid point that...
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Microsoft to include anti-piracy kill switch in Windows (after originally saying it wouldn't do so)
- This will undoubtedly descend into a war of semantics when it comes to what technically constitutes a kill switch. But, developers have tried "kill switches" in their code for as long as I can remember often referring to them as such and its commonly understood what that means in the...
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Automatic_ASR 1.1 (Windows)
- Written with VBScript, this program will allow users with Windows 2003/XP Professional to schedule Automated System Recovery ASR backups. Set a few switches and put it in your Scheduled Tasks, and Automatic_ASR will create the ASR file, delete old versions and email the results to you. For a complete description...
- Software downloads 2006-07-20
- Saving energy with a simple switch
- According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the electricity used to light businesses represents 25% of the energy they spend, so it's important to develop energy-saving devices. Now engineers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI have designed a simple switch which can help to reduce lighting energy consumption by 30%....
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Homes too smart for their own good?
- Do you revile the concept of "intelligent homes"? I do. And I'm not some "luser" geek-snubbing Poly Sci major who's never burned his finger with a soldering iron. No: When I was 15 and the other guys were out getting dates, I wired up my room with momentary-contact switches and...
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- Only 5% of satellite or cable TV customers would switch to telecom TV
- Only 5% of satellite or cable TV subscribers that responded to Research and Market survey said they would definitely switch to a telco TV provider. Another 13% said they would probably switch, but 52% were undecided. Video surveillance and video telephony, where 25% are willing to pay extra, in addition...
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- PocketZenPhone 6.0 (Mobile)
- PocketZenPhone www.pocketzenphone.net PocketZenPhone is a phone profile switcher/manager for PocketPC Phone Edition devices. (ARM/Xscale WM2003/WM2003SE/WM5 Portrait/Landscape/Square/VGA display) Consisting of a today plugin, a tray icon or a single application, it allows the user to manage and switch between 2 to 7 individually customizable profiles with all the essential settings. Multi-language...
- Software downloads 2004-05-25
- OneClickPlay 2.0 (Windows)
- OneClickPlay is a fast and tiny utility that scans, creates, and launches a randomized playlist of all MP3, WMA, and MIDI files found in the folder it was installed in and all subfolders. You can scan for any audio files by using switches. This will create a OneClickPlay.ini file. Once...
- Software downloads 2002-10-02
- IP-Multicasting Technology Part 2: Switches vs. Routers
- One of the primary difficulties encountered in multicasting over Layer-2 switches or bridges is that the normal response to multicast traffic is the immediate flooding of the packets to every interface on the switch other than the interface from which the packet arrived. This response is typical of a switch...
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