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Resiliency in Local Area Networks (LAN's)
White Papers A Local-Area Network (LAN) allows businesses to share resources efficiently and thus makes the internal communications of a business possible. This paper focuses on how resiliency is achieved in a LAN.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Ethernet takes a step towards service providers
News In order to become the ubiquitous local area network (LAN) standard that it is, Ethernet has had to see off several competitors, including token ring, ATM-on-the-LAN and FDDI. The last decade has seen LAN capacity expand some 100-fold, and backbone...
[March 6, 2003, 14:34]
Wireless LANs - Standards and security
News If you listen closely, you can almost hear the sound of wireless LAN radio frequencies zipping network traffic through the air. Understanding wireless LAN protocols and components A site survey can determine where to place access points within a...
[May 8, 2002, 9:42]
Ethernet marches towards telecoms domination
News Since that time, it has become the connectivity method of choice for local area networks (LANs), driving out rivals such as Token Ring and ATM-on-the-LAN. Niall Gallagher, vice-president of optical Ethernet at Nortel Networks, believes that telcos...
[October 13, 2003, 11:50]
Technical Paper: What Is a WAN (Wide Area Network) ?
White Papers Whereas a LAN (local area network) is a network that links computers, printers and other devices located in an office, a building or even a campus, a WAN (wide area network) is a system that extends for greater distances and is used to connect...
[July 13, 2004, 0:00]
Lightpath-Level Protection Versus Connection-Level Protection for Carrier-Grade Ethernet in a Mixed-Line-Rate Telecom Network
White Papers Ethernet is a success story in Local Area Networks (LAN). Efforts for extending its boundaries beyond LAN to the carriers' backbone networks are in progress. The paper studies the problem of designing reliable and cost-efficient high-rate (100 Gbit...
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
Extending the Substation LAN Beyond Substation Boundaries: Current Capabilities and Potential New Protection Applications of Wide-Area Ethernet
White Papers Advances in Ethernet-based technology have taken this industry from shared 10 Mbps LAN segments to switched 100 Mbps LANs followed by 1 Gbps backbones for Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and more recently 10 Gbps Ethernet technology for use in...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Vypress Tonecast
Downloads It allows you easily setup and begins your own "radio" broadcasting over an existing LAN infrastructure without investing into expensive additional hardware or complex heaped software systems. Vypress Tonecast is high-fidelity audio translation...
[May 15, 2004, 8:00]
Metropolitan Ethernet Network: A Move From LAN to MAN
White Papers However, there are efforts to assist the transformation of Ethernet from the mainstream LAN technology to the possible adoption for Metropolitan Area Networks (MENs). Ethernet has been the indisputable technology of choice for the Local Area...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Wireless IP Through Integration of Wireless LAN and Cellular Networks
White Papers One interim way to bypass this limitation is to use Wireless Local Area Networks (W-LAN) in cooperation with cellular networks. In order to provide Internet connectivity over a wide geographical area, it is necessary to utilize the advanced...
[January 18, 2006, 0:01]
Virtual Private LAN Service: The New Challenge for LAN/WAN Connectivity
White Papers This paper presents a technical overview of VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service), its current state of the art, its strengths and weaknesses, and most important of all, several open issues and future research work.
[January 15, 2008, 3:58]
An Evaluation of the Performance of IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g Wireless Local Area Networks in a Corporate Office Environment
White Papers In this paper, the performance and relative merits of 802.11a and 802.11g are compared for the scenario of a corporate office wireless LAN application. In recent years there has been considerable interest in the development of standards for...
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
Telco-friendly Ethernet 'ready for action'
News The last decade has seen LAN capacity expand some 100-fold, and backbone capacity more like 300-fold, while the real bottleneck has been in the metropolitan area, with a bare 16-fold increase," said Chen.
[March 5, 2003, 8:36]
Nuclear lab bans wireless networks
News Security experts have warned that wireless networks pose a serious security threat to businesses using them because information passed along a wireless LAN is often unprotected and easily intercepted.
[January 31, 2002, 13:21]
Wireless training under scrutiny
News The review for any errors or quality issues will be done by the Wireless LAN Association, a nonprofit organisation representing companies that build wireless networks in offices and homes using the 802.11 standard.
[March 1, 2002, 14:06]
Mobile networks could boost rural broadband
News According to ip.access they can be connected to a wide area network, a company LAN or even just an Internet connection. Invisible Networks and ip.access have announced a plan to team up in a trial to show how mobile phone base stations can operate...
[November 29, 2002, 12:05]
Wi-Fi connections tipped to fly
News The study points out that the growth of Wi-Fi home networking in the United States is driven by low-cost 802.11b technology, which is a wireless LAN technology that operates in the 2.4GHz frequency range with a data transmission speed of up to...
[January 8, 2004, 13:55]
Wi-Fi Cloud could be silver lining for rural broadband
News Inspired Broadcast Networks caused a stir earlier this month when it announced that it was planning to launch 3,000 wireless LAN hot spots this year, forming a network it calls The Cloud. Murphy added that Inspired Broadcast Networks was working on...
[March 24, 2003, 12:12]
Webcast: Why "Ethernet Everywhere" is Coming, and How it Must Be Secured
White Papers Ethernet has transcended its Local Area Network (LAN) origins. This ubiquitous and disruptive technology is now capable of meeting the long-range transport (up to 128 kilometers without regeneration), bandwidth (10+ Gbps), high-availability (99.999...
[April 20, 2006, 9:42]
Will SafeGuard Unlock the Data Insurance Market?
White Papers Almost every office contains computers connected together into what is called Local Area Networks (LAN). The insurance of computer data is a very big, yet untapped business. The data they contain rank as one of the most important corporate assets.
[July 13, 2007, 1:00]
