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Finding An Effective Sustainable Model For A Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing The Case Of Pittsburgh
White Papers Many cities are seeking ways to facilitate the deployment of a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network (WiMAN) based on wifitechnology. City leaders must often balance competing goals, including the desire to maximize the area in which wireless services...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
WiMAX Metropolitan Area Wireless Networking Technology
White Papers WiMAX is the hot new technology that has got carriers, component vendors, and equipment suppliers interested in metropolitan-area wireless coverage all over again. But to truly understand WiMAX, one must wade through a mass of technical talk...
[January 17, 2005, 23:00]
Performance Study And Improvement Of OFDM-Based Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
White Papers This standard mainly targets technology and specification for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WirelessMANs), including the physical layer and medium access control layer. IEEE 802.16 is a new generation wireless broadband access network standard.
[December 1, 2004, 2:00]
VERITAS Performance Brief - Remote Mirroring Using VxVM For Metropolitan Area Disaster Recovery
White Papers The OLTP performance measurements taken over various distances illustrate that using VERITAS Volume Manager's mirroring feature, the performance degradation caused by remote mirroring is very acceptable in both single instance and Oracle RAC...
[January 15, 2005, 2:00]
Virtual Metropolitan Area Networks
White Papers Service providers can pretend that IP rules and refuse to carry anything else on their vMANs not exactly the way to build a contented customer base. Customers can lease their own dark fiber and light it up, asking their already overburdened staff...
[November 5, 2003, 5:46]
Study Touts Metro Ethernet Cost Savings
News Telephone companies could cut their operating costs by 23 percent a year by using Ethernet services in their metropolitan area networks instead of traditional telecommunications services, according to a new study.
[January 26, 2004, 13:00]
WiMAX Deployment Considerations For Fixed Wireless Access In The 2.5 GHz And 3.5 GHz Licensed Bands
White Papers This paper addresses some of the deployment considerations for a wireless metropolitan area network based on the IEEE 802.16-2004 Air Interface Standard, commonly referred to as WiMAX. With support for COFDM, deployments in these bands are...
[September 23, 2005, 3:00]
What WiMAX Forum Certified Products Will Bring To Wi-Fi
White Papers WiMAX Certified products will extend the broadband wireless experience to the metropolitan area network. WiMAX Forum Certified equipment vendors may develop products that support a combination of Wi-Fi LAN technology and WiMAX MAN technologies to...
[June 19, 2004, 20:00]
Ethernet Takes A Step Towards Service Providers
News Ethernet, one of the most successful network standards ever, is poised to take a new role, as a new telco-friendly version emerges, suitable for metropolitan area networks. Most metropolitan area networks are based on the Sonet/SDH optical...
[March 6, 2003, 14:34]
Telco-friendly Ethernet 'ready For Action'
News The next area to adopt Ethernet will be metropolitan area (or "metro") networks, which span anywhere from a city to a region as big as some European countries. The last decade has seen LAN capacity expand some 100-fold, and backbone capacity more...
[March 5, 2003, 8:36]
Asynchronous Multi Factor Model (AMFM) Of Security For Wireless MAN
White Papers However, with the emerging technologies in wireless metropolitan area networks (MAN), over GSM, GPRS, or CDMA/3G, it is possible to adopt the asynchronous mode of space and time for key distribution. This paper suggests a model of combining...
[November 15, 2005, 0:00]
Cisco Moves To Compete In Metro Networks
News Storage is just growing tremendously and will drive optical [networks] growth in the metropolitan area. Cisco Systems announced new optical networking hardware on Wednesday, the giant's latest move to catch up with rivals in the fast-growing market...
[May 3, 2001, 9:38]
Ten Gigabit Ethernet Standard Approved
News The first to benefit will be service providers and those selling equipment to them, since the technology will cost quite a lot at first and will initially best suited for provisioning metropolitan area networks across installed fibre.
[June 13, 2002, 16:11]
Ethernet Marches Towards Telecoms Domination
News Ethernet has taken another step towards becoming the protocol of choice for metropolitan telecoms networking, even though some experts remain unconvinced that businesses are genuinely keen to use it to connect their local networks together.
[October 13, 2003, 11:50]
Government Defends Wireless Broadband Plans
News The government says that most of the people who took part in the consultation had favoured its initial suggestion -- of seven regional and seven metropolitan licences plus one for Northern Ireland. The areas [covered by the four licences] have...
[February 4, 2003, 16:11]
'Tunable' Lasers Revolutionise Telecoms
News Separately, metropolitan area network equipment maker ONI Systems will demonstrate its Online11000, gear designed for regional optic rings. This trade-off makes the lasers more suited to metropolitan networks as opposed to long-haul networks that...
[March 20, 2001, 13:20]
From Mesh To UWB: Untangling The Wireless Future
News MAN: Metropolitan Area Networks are essentially wireless wide area networks that are based on the IEEE's 802.2 standard. MANs are being rolled out in the UK by the likes of Cisco and Intel, which believes that WiMax and metropolitan networks will...
[April 16, 2004, 12:35]
Case Study: Travis County
White Papers Travis County is located in Central Texas and includes much of the Austin metropolitan area. Travis County needed to properly dispose of several hundred computers, monitors, and keyboards. After analyzing the current situation and future needs of...
[October 6, 2008, 1:20]
Planning A WiMAX Network With ICS Telecom NG
White Papers The term WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) has become synonymous with the IEEE 802.16 Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) air interface standard. Amendments to the original release have extended the 802.16 air interface...
[August 11, 2005, 6:00]
WiMAX Lets Wireless Networks Extend For Miles
White Papers WiMAX wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), based on the IEEE 802.16 family of standards, will soon offer wireless broadband Internet access to residences and businesses at relatively low cost. The standard supports shared transfer rates up...
[November 18, 2004, 23:00]
