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Backbone Topology Synthesis for Multi-Radio Meshed Wireless LANs
White Papers This paper presents a scalable and fully distributed algorithm that serves to autonomously elect certain Access Points as Backbone nodes to construct a connected mesh backbone network. Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) systems are widely...
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
New shield repelled internet backbone attack
News An attack in early February on key parts of the backbone of the internet had little effect, thanks to new protection technology, according to a report released this week. The distributed denial-of-service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS...
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
Internet can be upgraded 'without boosting backbone'
News Akamai chief scientist Tom Leighton says performance of the Internet can be improved without adding any new backbone capacity. Speaking in Sydney, where he today addressed the Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics...
[July 7, 2003, 10:26]
News Burst: Lucent to build BT backbone
News Lucent Technologies Thursday announced that it has received a letter of award from BT for a five-year agreement to build an optical network in the UK that will form the backbone of BT's next-generation Global Transport Network (GTN), the company...
[November 12, 1999, 13:30]
Internet backbone suffers suspected attack
News There are signs that hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the internet on Tuesday, but no damage seems to have been done, experts said. The attack appears to have focused on the Domain Name System (DNS), which maps text-based domain names...
[February 7, 2007, 13:31]
Consolidated Future-Ready IT Backbone Integrating Disparate IT Systems and Applications for Cartus Corporation
White Papers MindTree Consulting leveraged their expertise in developing business applications using Microsoft web technologies to build a robust IT backbone application to overcome the problems faced with multiple data repositories.
[March 28, 2008, 0:02]
Profiling Internet Backbone Traffic: Behavior Models and Applications
White Papers This paper presents a general methodology for building comprehensive behavior profiles of Internet backbone traffic in terms of communication patterns of end-hosts and services. Recent spates of cyber-attacks and frequent emergence of applications...
[March 16, 2009, 4:33]
London 2012's tech backbone to be trimmed
News The IT backbone for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is to be trimmed as part of a drive for "sustainability". Each part of the computing infrastructure will be streamlined to minimise redundant equipment and energy consumption...
[November 27, 2008, 8:38]
U.S. Cellular: The SAP for Retail Solution Portfolio Provides Backbone for New Merchandise Management System
White Papers To correct this and other supply-chain woes, the company implemented the SAP for Retail solution portfolio as the backbone of its new merchandise management system. It became clear that U.S. Cellular needed an automated merchandise management...
[October 8, 2009, 9:54]
Competition in the Internet Backbone Market
White Papers This paper presents a competitive assessment of the global market for the provision of universal Internet connectivity (backbone market). The paper discusses the approach followed by the EC Commission in two important merger cases.
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
A Study of FDDI and Ethernet Traffic on the LANL Network Backbone
White Papers This paper discusses several network traffic traces taken on the Los Alamos National Laboratory backbone between 2001 and 2002. These traces, approximately 1.2 terabytes of binary data, will soon be released for public study in an anonymous form.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Provider Backbone Bridges Bring Massive Service Scalability to Ethernet
White Papers In an effort to deliver carrier-grade Ethernet services, two emerging standards are evolving from the original IEEE 802.1Q VLAN standard: IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges (Q-in-Q) and IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridges (MAC-in-MAC).
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
Implementing Real Time Port Scan Detection for the IP Backbone
White Papers Targeting the IP backbone, the paper puts all the pieces together in an implementation of an online port scan detecting and tracking system for high speed networks. Port scanning is prevalent in today's Internet and often has malicious intent.
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
Implementing a Mobile Backbone Network
White Papers Juniper Networks recently partnered with a leading global mobile operator to build a single mobile backbone network capable of supporting both current and future applications. The operator, based in Europe, carefully considered their options for...
[March 23, 2005, 23:00]
Distributed QoS Routing for Backbone Overlay Networks
White Papers Due to the difficulty of supporting end-to-end QoS purely in end-user overlays, backbone over-lays for QoS support have been proposed. This paper describes a backbone QoS overlay network architecture for scalable, efficient and practical QoS support.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
KT Selects Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System for Its KORNET Backbone Network
White Papers KT selected the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System as the company's KORNET backbone network solution. KT, Korea's incumbent telecommunication operator, was established in1981 and fully privatized in 2002.
[March 10, 2007, 0:00]
Uncovering Performance Differences Among Backbone ISPs With Netdiff
White Papers Netdiff has been measuring eighteen backbone ISPs since February 2007. This paper designs and implements Netdiff, a system that enables detailed performance comparisons among ISP networks. It helps customers and applications determine, for instance...
[November 28, 2008, 23:00]
PSINet plans $100m Europe backbone
News The project will be developed in tandem with telecommunications investor The Chaterjee Group, which is backed by George Soros. Plans call for the alliance - to be called PSINet Europe - to link the network with PSINet's current European operations...
[September 23, 1996, 15:02]
Spammers seek their own Net backbone
News But the mounting unpopularity of the practice, known as spamming, has meant a string of rejections, lawsuits and cut connections from ISPs and Internet backbone providers. Most recently AGIS, a major backbone provider, abruptly disconnected Cyber...
[October 9, 1997, 14:58]
Security and Trust: The Backbone of Doing Business over the Internet
White Papers Earning the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transferred over the internet. With VeriSign you can put technology in place to help your online business protect customer data and...
[June 5, 2009, 14:59]
