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Traffic management: New Internet coming to your local roads

Since the mid 1980's there have been proposals to implement traffic management via wireless. Often referred to as Intelligent Transport System, the goal is to enable analysis and traffic flow services on a nation's road system. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Traffic Management, Internet, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Trickle: A Userland Bandwidth Shaper for Unix-Like Systems

As with any finite resource, it is often necessary to apply policies to the shared usage of network resources. Existing solutions typically implement this by employing traffic management in edge routers. However, users of smaller networks regularly find themselves in need of nothing more than ad-hoc rate limiting. Furthermore, the...

Tags: Network, Traffic Management, Unix, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

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Internet performance management makes data center consolidation possible

There are many more advantages to consolidation... Virtual switch technology... Virtual switch technology, is far faster than anything Ciscoor other hardware router vendors can push through your INTRAnet.... In the era of mashups... and multi database applications, you want internet connections that are at memory transfer speeds, not...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, data center consolidation, data center, hub/Switch, IP, hardware, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Traffic management: New Internet coming to your local roads

The infrastructure's already there in the carIt's the driver or passenger's mobile phone. Surely the phone carriers can provide the necessary data by logging the movement of mobile phones from mast to mast and publishing at a regular interval a summary of how many devices have moved between each pair...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...

Tags: Routers & switches, Modems, Network technology, NETWORKING, SMC8014, Model Number, Time Warner Cable Inc., router, modem, Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

MobileWitch YouTube Downloader 1.2 (Windows)

MobileWitch YouTube Downloader is an all-in-one download manager focused on user-friendliness, and wide compatibility in terms of download sources. It provides download support for popular video-sharing sites like YouTube, Google Videos, MetaCafe. The software also provides excellent assistance to your network traffic management, ensures download prioritization and offers great options...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Microsoft Windows, MobileWitch, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-18

Yahoo plots app mall, app portability through its properties

Yahoo has been busy rolling out new features---new home page, revamped My Yahoo, Mail and Messenger overhauls---that come courtesy of its infrastructure revamp a few years in the making. Among the most promising efforts by Yahoo are its homepage applications. Open to all third parties and self...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., App, Mint, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Internet, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-12

cFosSpeed 4.52 build 1509 (Windows)

Internet Acceleration with Traffic Shaping and bandwidth management. Ping optimizer plus packet prioritization. Maximum Download and Minimum Ping. For DSL, ADSL, VDSL, Cable, Modem, ISDN, Mobile (GSM, GPRS, HSCSD, UMTS, HSDPA), Filesharing (P2P), Online Games, VoIP, Streaming Media and Tuning. Version 4.50 build 1456 adds new skin: "LC History", adds...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, CFO, DSL, Modems, Broadband Internet, Cellular Phones, Web Site Development, Games, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Internet, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-10

InterGate Policy Manager 9.3.1 (Mac)

InterGate Policy Manager - A comprehensive Internet access management solution, providing fine grained control of web content access, usage of Peer to Peer, Instant Messaging and Skype networks, logging and reporting of user activity, as well a core IP router and firewall to provide advanced protection to your network. Advanced...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Network, Vicomsoft Ltd., Web Site, Channel Management, Firewalls, Web Site Development, Networking, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-09

PRTG Network Monitor 7.2.1.4721 (Windows)

An advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly auto-discover and configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for...

Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensor, Microsoft Windows, Paessler, PRTG Network Monitor, Commercial Editions, Networking

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Cisco Buys Tandberg on its way to be your B2B video conferencing partner

I spent a day with Tandberg management last week and came away very impressed with some things I can't share and also some things that I can share. Tandberg has: Great HD videoconferencing solutions in room-sized all the way down to Webcam. Yep, a Webcam image looks...

Tags: Video Conferencing, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Tandberg, Business Person, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2009-10-01

FCC: Comcast contradicts itself in claim agency has no power over it

Not surprising..They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and now want to deny it. So of course they will change their tune when any type of action is taken. Comcast needs to be strung up from the tallest tree and hung for the world to see. I...

Tags: Federal government, agency, FCC, Comcast Corp., legal argument

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers

More than technology to truly enable remote workingThis blog brings up a big point when discussing telecommuting: the technology must be able to handle the bandwidth when it becomes the norm. But that is solved by applying some well known technologies. It is a technical shift in where the bandwidth...

Tags: Development tools, worker

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

FCC's Net neutrality push: Is wireless access different?

Stop coddling wireless companiesThey are no longer fledgling upstarts but the new normal. It is simply mind-boggling why they get away with a much looser regulatory framework than landlines. Why is it, for instance, that you do not have a choice of carrier for international calls the way you do...

Tags: NETWORKING, INTERNET, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, VOIP, FCC, wireless access, network, wireless, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

FCC lays out Net neutrality framework: Transparency of network management eyed

Thank GoodnessIf left to the ISPs and Computer Industry, within 5, years you would be paying outrageous fees for limited Internet access and bandwidth, and your ISP would dictate what applications you used, where you went and when you went there. Imagine if Apple, with its controlling, narrow mindedness,...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Federal government, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Internet Service Provider, Internet, cable, network management, content provider, FCC, network, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Folx 0.9 (Mac)

Folx is a free Mac download manager, which provides you with high speed, downloads resume, the ability of ftp downloading no matter what browser you use. It helps you download any file via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP directly or via proxy in just several clicks. Folx allows you to download everything...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File, Download Manager, Eltima Software, Folx, Internet

Software downloads 2009-09-21

WSJ: Expect Net Neutrality rules at FCC speech next week

BAD IDEA.Like a lot of liberal legislation (Employee Free Choice Act, etc.) the actual idea is the opposite of the name.The idea here is not neutrality, but CONTROL. This provides a way for the government to start regulating the internet.Despite the on-the-surface intent of the rules, the traffic management...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Vertical industries, Federal government, Net Neutrality, Internet, Internet Service Provider, government, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

WSJ: Expect Net Neutrality rules at FCC speech next week

New government rules that support Network Neutrality, specifically rules that prevent Internet service providers from selectively blocking sites from their networks, are expected to be unveiled in Washington on Monday, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. During a speech on Monday, FCC chairman Julius...

Tags: FCC, Wall Street Journal, Network, Net Neutrality, Rule, Carrier, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Mailspect taming unstructured Email data

Paul Sterne, CMO of Mailspect, collared me yesterday and brought me up to speed on what he's doing now.  Paul and I worked together at Open-Xchange.  His company is doing something that is new to me. It might be something new to you as well. Here's what Mailspect has...

Tags: MPP Web Services Mailspect, ESM, E-mail, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-09-17