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Frequently Asked Questions About Customer Owned Dark Fiber, Condominium Fiber, Community And Municipal Fiber Networks
White Papers Traditionally optical fiber networks have been built by carriers where they take on the responsibility of lighting the fiber and provide a managed service to the customer. With customer owned dark fiber networks the end customer owns and controls...
[October 5, 2003, 0:00]
Transforming Education Through Clife-Long Learninge, Community Involvement And Hands-On Experience With State-of-the-Art Technology From Nortel Networks
White Papers Hull College turned to Nortel Networks to give their students a competitive edge with hands-on experience in the latest call centre technology while decreasing costs and improving productivity with network solution using Voice over IP (VoIP).
[September 28, 2008, 1:21]
Mobile Networks Could Boost Rural Broadband
News Community broadband networks in rural areas could benefit from the need for mobile phone operators to improve their network coverage, two UK companies believe. Invisible Networks is a company that builds community wireless networks in areas not...
[November 29, 2002, 12:05]
Wireless Access Points And ARP Poisoning: Wireless Vulnerabilities That Expose The Wired Network
White Papers Wireless networks, specifically 802.11b, have received a tremendous amount of interest and scrutiny from the security community over the past few months. The security community agrees that wireless networks introduce a new point of entry into...
[October 4, 2003, 6:38]
Community Broadband Gets Royal Approval
News Buckfastleigh is the site of one of Britain's community broadband networks. The UK's army of wireless broadband activists got a royal thumbs-up on Monday, when the Duke of Kent visited the Buckfastleigh Broadband Community Network in Devon.
[October 20, 2003, 17:55]
Nominate Your IT Community Hero
Blog CNET Networks UK is currently accepting entries for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2008, and for the IT Community Hero award we though we’d put it out there to ask you who you think deserves to win.
[May 16, 2008, 12:49]
BT's Broadband Push Leaves Rivals Stranded
News However, BT's changing broadband policies have been tough on smaller rivals such as Everywhere Broadband, Radiant Networks and community groups. Previously, hundreds of people in each local community have had to register their interest in BT before...
[May 7, 2004, 18:00]
Chat 'bots' May Be Hacker Tool
News Following reports of networks being compromised by the file-sharing community in parts of Asia and the United States, organisations should check their networks to see if there has been an increase in IRC traffic, Slender advised.
[May 10, 2002, 10:55]
Wireless Broadband Threatened By Licensing Plan?
News Community broadband activists and some in the telecoms industry are concerned that the rollout of wireless broadband networks in rural areas could be hampered if, as widely expected, the government decides to license the use of part of the 5GHz...
[March 7, 2003, 9:27]
Sun's Jini Gets New Lease Of Life
News Last week, the Jini Community -- a group of companies working to further the technology -- released its first standard for building Jini-based systems, which could make the software far easier to work with.
[May 12, 2003, 11:48]
Digital Jukebox Will Use Broadband To Storm Pubs
News The Cloud, which is the largest network of Wi-Fi networks in the UK, has the potential to become a wireless backbone that community groups can hang their own networks off. Back in February, company officials said they'd be happy for community...
[November 24, 2003, 16:50]
Is Hacking Healthy?
News If you look in the hacking community, however, you are unlikely to find anyone matching that description. The hacking community is just like society at large," he says. For the typical layperson, the word "hacker" evokes a very specific image: a...
[April 5, 2000, 13:42]
MPs Urge More Action On Wireless Broadband
News Richard Allan MP pointed out that the telco had the power to either help or hinder the work of community activists who are trying to build broadband wireless networks in their area, and suggested that BT should offer an affordable product to link...
[March 26, 2003, 8:05]
3G Masts 'safer Than 2G'
News The ACA and ARPANSA [Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency] want to allay any community concern arising from the introduction into Australia of 3G mobile phone networks, which support video and data calls in addition to the...
[December 23, 2003, 9:20]
CERT Casts Doubt On Security Find
News The network performance issues are described in a series of Web site forum postings recently publicised within the security community. Security community members have criticised the researchers for presenting too little detail to support their...
[January 23, 2004, 9:10]
Making Rural Broadband Happen - As Easy As ABC?
News Community activists were early adopters of Wi-Fi and pioneered community wireless networks. One of ABC's founders is Lindsey Annison, who is a driving force behind Edenfaster -- a community wireless broadband network being created in Cumbria.
[April 29, 2003, 16:42]
Community Spirit
Blog Personally, I feel the greatest benefit they offer is ‘community’ i.e.the opportunity to network with peers and share ideas, opinions on emerging technologies - you know the sort of thing. So whether it’s the MSDN, IBM Rational’s developerWorks...
[July 31, 2007, 11:27]
Jon Hall: Open Source Should Be Protected From 'looters'
News The open-source development community is an international treasure and should be protected as such, said veteran Linux advocate Jon "Maddog" Hall, in a talk in Birmingham that emphasised the role of open-source software outside the US.
[June 24, 2003, 11:45]
Legal Swapping Networks Flourish
News In part, that's why the company's chief executive is now reaching out to the broad community of people using BitTorrent, an underground file-trading application using similar technology that has exploded in popularity among people distributing or...
[March 12, 2004, 7:40]
Is The Word "social" Stigmatising Web 2.0?
Blog Not only is it suggesting the services provided are done so for the greater good, but it's also implying that many of the services are the stuff of community staple and should be as free as green spaces and fresh air.
[September 10, 2008, 14:58]
