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How Cisco IT Uses NetFlow to Improve Network Capacity Planning

Of all the issues faced by enterprise companies in managing their networks, capacity planning is one of the most important. More an art than a science until recently, network capacity planning is all about balancing the need to meet user performance expectations against the realities of capital budgeting. WAN bandwidth...

Tags: Network, Information Technology, Network Capacity, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN Bandwidth, WANs, Networking

Case studies 2007-12-17

Building New-Generation Metropolitan Area Networks

Bandwidth growth has been explosive in the LAN propelled by the availability and deployment of Gigabit Ethernet. WAN bandwidth has also exploded,fueled by the 300%annual growth in Internet traffic. The key remaining link has been between the LAN and the WAN the metropolitan area network MAN.

Tags: Extreme Networks, Bandwidth Growth, WAN Bandwidth, WANs, Network Technology, Networking, LANs

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News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone

Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Comcast to launch meter to track Web usage

It only seemed fair that Comcast would give its customers a way to track their Web usage, seeing how the company imposed a a 250 GB limit on the Web data that its customers use in a month. But when the company announced that limit earlier this year, there was...

Tags: Web, Comcast Corp., Usage, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFi

As hospitals' use of WiFi grows, pressure will also grow to expand wireless bandwidth. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Xirrus Inc., Bandwidth, Hospital, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy

It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....

Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Oh, and BTW: 'Intellectually Bankrupt' FCC Chief To Be Around Until Mid-2009

There's little love lost between the nation's largest cable operator, Comcast, and the country's top industry watchdog, Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin During his tenure, Martin has pushed repeatedly to usher in...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Chairman, Federal Government, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Nokia's N97: Is this your future netbook?

Nokia's N97: Is this your future netbook?Nokia’s N97: Is this your future netbook?No - the Nokia E90 already is. With the exception of a touch screen largely an overrated capability in any phone IMHO and totally irrelevant megapixels in the camera, it's pretty much an equivalent spec, with a...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Keyboards, Cellular phones, N-Series, Nokia N97, Nokia Corp., phone

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care?

Who doesn't hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you're willing to pay for a really good one? That's the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def...

Tags: Phone, Voice, Codec, Voice Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Did the iPhone kill satellite radio?

A Slashdot post notes the sad state of affairs at satellite radio's Sirius XM and that it's starting to look like a "failed" company. why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware and a limited selection of a few hundred stations all controlled by one company? Since...

Tags: Apple iPhone, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?

I'm not a big TV watcher to be honest. In the UK, we have the "licence fee" which you need to pay the government before you even connect the telly to the wall. If you don't, you can bet your arse you'll have armed police storming the windows to your...

Tags: On-demand, Broadcasting, Cloud Computing, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UK

Apple forced to drop deceptive television ad in UKGood.Some corporations need a thorough cleaning to get rid of nonsense such as this.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAI love that video... I wonder how fast the iPhone could be on Verizon? AT&T is known to all of us in the real world as the absolutely...

Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., deceptive television ad, television ad, TV

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Why the "beta culture" will have to change

Why the "beta culture" will have to changeMore likely a lack of something else...[b]Any problems encountered after that will be addressed in the next beta release. If I need to install production software, I don't want to waste time downloading/installing/testing beta software, so this is upsetting to discover the only...

Tags: beta, production version, software

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron

Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' OpteronYeah, but 1 i7 Nehalem can defeat 2 Shanghai chipshttp://formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/141/Default.aspxConclusion, AMD is still behind.Sorry but Intel is handing them a whuppin.RE: Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteronthis will be a sure hit once again, AMD is a best value processorRE: Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' OpteronAMD is still...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron

AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to utilize the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet Germany tests show that they have made up important ground on Intel Xeon chips. AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to utilize the improved performance and efficiency of...

Tags: Performance, Level 3 Communications Inc., Shanghai, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Nehalem, Dunnington CPU, Processor Development, Performance Management, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, AMD, Opteron, Intel, Xeon, benchmarks, processors, Shangahi, Christoph Hochstatter, ZDNet Germany, Christoph Hochstatter, ZDNet Germany

News items 2008-11-24

Ed Tech in a recession

Ed Tech in a recessionPlease explain?"Schools in my area cannot be part of the Library system as they are part of the County Government services."And the people who pay for this you and the other taxpayers are OK that this is how it is? Or is your library system...

Tags: Ed Tech, recession, bandwidth

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Ed Tech in a recession

At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will get hit as the global economy tanks even further. Next year, our district is looking at a best...

Tags: Recession, Hardware, Technology, Teacher, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Towards a World Wide Grid?

Towards a World Wide Grid?Living in the clouds for sure ...People are calling a lot of different things "clouds", everything from plain LAMP server farms to true distributed application services frameworks. All of them depend on copious network bandwidth. From a business point of view, this may not be bad....

Tags: Operational accounting, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, World Wide Grid, income

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?

What does the spam ISP shutdown really mean?Spam VolumeWe use a Barracuda spam filter for our clients "As A service" and since that ISP went down.. our average amount of spam went down from around 120,000 messages a day to our client base to 80,000. It was a significant...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, spam ISP, Internet Service Provider, spam, recipe, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-11-19