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Fluke OptiView XG Network Analysis Tablet

Fluke OptiView XG Network Analysis Tablet

...of analysis on the results, all the way up to wire-speed packet capture if necessary. The OptiView XG is a highly specialised 10in. Windows... Read more

3 January, 2012 by Jonathan Bennett

O2 to launch free Wi-Fi hotspot network

Taking on BT and The Cloud, the mobile operator plans to give customers and non-customers alike access to free Wi-Fi via 15,000 hotspots around the UK Read more

26 January, 2011 by Ben Woods

Packet switching inventor Paul Baran dies aged 84

...Paul Baran, one of the inventors of the packet switching technology that underpins all internet traffic, has died aged 84. Paul... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Virgin Media puts CView packet sniffing trial on hold

...has similar functionality, the spokesman told ZDNet UK. CView is a deep packet inspection (DPI) technology that can be installed in an ISP's network... Read more

30 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

Tor tool aims to help Iranians work around internet ban

...a report by Forbes's Andy Greenberg. The Iranian government uses deep-packet inspection filters to locate and block data encrypted using the Secure Sockets... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Edward Moyer

T-Mobile: We intercepted secure email from phones

...submission service using SSL over 3G, T-Mobile sent a reset (RST) packet to both his server and his client to interrupt the connection. Cardwell... Read more

12 January, 2012 by Tom Espiner
IPv4 to IPv6 switch: When protocols collide

IPv4 to IPv6 switch: When protocols collide

...complicated as cloud computing providers, says Lori MacVittie. Not since the first packets were tossed around the internet has it faced so much potential change... Read more

11 June, 2011 by Lori MacVittie

Huawei eyes move into Windows Phone handsets

...use of such tiering was "business logic". Huawei can even offer deep-packet inspection (DPI) to help operators tier their services, Xu said, although he... Read more

27 May, 2011 by David Meyer

W3C to develop peer-to-peer browser standards

...Dynamics also said the proposed standards would not stop governments forcing deep-packet inspection of web communications and blocking encrypted peer-to-peer traffic. "It... Read more

6 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Britons to gain 'right to be forgotten'

...into the legislation, said Newman, and will cover the use of deep-packet inspection, a monitoring technique that examines every packet of data. "The general... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Facebook calls outage 'worst in four years'

...on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Facebook outages reported; Qwest sees packet loss on CNET News Read more

24 September, 2010 by Tom Krazit
Combining SDM-Based Circuit Switching with <endeca_term>Packet</endeca_term> Switching in a Router for On-Chip Networks

Combining SDM-Based Circuit Switching with Packet Switching in a Router for On-Chip Networks

...is presented, it combines Spatial Division Multiplexing "SDM" based circuit switching and packet switching in order to efficiently and separately handle both streaming and best... Read more

19 September, 2011
Application Level Load Balancing in a Web Switch or Security Oriented Filtering Based on the Content Signatures for Deep <endeca_term>Packet</endeca_term> Inspection and Delayed Input DFA

Application Level Load Balancing in a Web Switch or Security Oriented Filtering Based on the Content Signatures for Deep Packet Inspection and Delayed Input DFA

...demand for network devices capable of examining the content of the Data packet in order to improve the network security and provide application specific services... Read more

1 September, 2011
Traffic-Aware Frequent Elements Matching Algorithms for Deep <endeca_term>Packet</endeca_term> Inspection

Traffic-Aware Frequent Elements Matching Algorithms for Deep Packet Inspection

Deep packet inspection sometimes is called application level semantic detection, which is capable of... Read more

1 May, 2011
A Protocol for <endeca_term>Packet</endeca_term> Network Intercommunication

A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication

A protocol that supports the sharing of resources that exist in different packet switching networks is presented. The protocol provides for variation in individual network... Read more

1 January, 2011

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