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Delivering High-Performance Research And Education Networks
White Papers GEANT2, the successor to GEANT, will be the seventh generation of this pan-European research & education backbone, and will combine an IP network with intelligent optical switching to create a hybrid switched and routed infrastructure.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Software Patents Make A Mockery Of European Ideals
Talkback Hopefully, other European governments will have more of a backbone against certain large US corporations than ours has shown. While I appreciate that the UK government under Tony Blair is a complete dead loss as far as software patents is concerned...
[March 7, 2005, 18:06]
Security Measures To Couple Mixed IPv4/IPv6 Networks Over A Pure IPv6 Infrastructure By Making Use Of NAT-PT
White Papers The scope of this paper is to present a European test installation where NAT-PT is used to couple national networks over an IPv6 backbone. The next generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) was developed to improve the within the Internet...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Nortel Network Case Study: Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB)
White Papers LKAB implemented a new network based on Nortel Networks Passport 8600 (now known as Ethernet Routing Switch 8600) Gigabit backbone connecting remote locations with BayStack 450 switches (now known as Ethernet Switch 450) and managed by Optivity...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Online Planets Collide
News The deal, which does not involve any money changing hands, will offer Planet Online customers a secondary connection to the US backbone plus improved management of data traffic across the US backbone.
[September 12, 1996, 16:44]
KPNQwest Network Nears Closure As Legal Battle Looms
News KPNQwest's purchase of GTS, which included the Ebone European backbone network, was completed in March, only weeks before KPNQwest declared itself bankrupt. Netherlands-based KPNQWest and its European subsidiaries went bankrupt at the same time...
[June 24, 2002, 12:36]
On Roaming, Fibre To The Home, And The Marquis De Sade
Leader BT is promising £1.5bn investment in nationwide fibre — not in the backbone but in the crucial last mile, delivering between 40Mbps and 100Mbps to homes either directly or via on-street cabinets. As the future users of broadband, we are lucky to...
[July 15, 2008, 12:50]
Sun Tackles Data-centre Power Concerns
News The three facilities form the backbone of Sun's worldwide IT strategy. The UK site will consolidate multiple European data centres into a single facility, the company said, with an 80 percent reduction in server and storage space.
[August 21, 2007, 16:16]
KPNQwest Struggles Back After Shutdown - But For How Long?
News One major part of the network, the Ebone backbone, had been shut down already, and has since been sold off for a rumoured 25 million euros to European service provider Interoute. Central European Time, 50 percent of the network was back online, and...
[July 25, 2002, 10:46]
US Report: EU Panel OKs Merger Between MCI-WorldCom
News Forced into progressively larger divestitures to answer objections that MCI WorldCom would own so much Net backbone that it would control cyberspace, the companies now seem to have sign-offs essentially in hand, said Credit Suisse First Boston...
[June 22, 1998, 10:27]
World Online Goes Head To Head With Freeserve
News The Dutch player currently has one million users and last week acquired UK backbone telecoms provider Telinco to enhance its battle plan for British eyeballs. Apart from AOL, World Online is one of the few ISPs with presence in many European...
[January 24, 2000, 16:18]
Copyright Differences Brew P2P Clash
News The RIAA already has attempted to do this once before, asking US backbone network providers to block access to a China-based site offering MP3 downloads. A difference between American and European copyright law threatens to carve out a free...
[January 8, 2003, 9:22]
European Regulation Fails To Solve Broadband Problem
News And now the company that commissioned the report, backbone firm Ebone, is, along with the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), taking this issue to the European Commission. According to a Yankee group survey, European...
[May 3, 2001, 11:30]
IPv4 To IPv6 Migration Scoping Report For Core Networks
White Papers The goal of this paper is to provide an overview about existing transition mechanisms, which are useful for a smooth integration of IPv6 into IPv4 core (backbone) networks. Transition scenarios are discussed on the example of the GEANT network as a...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IT Patent Issues Simplified For Businesses
News The EPC is the treaty that forms the backbone for the laws that allow the granting of European patents. The revised European Patent Convention took effect this week, bringing in a system designed to substantially simplify patent issues for...
[December 14, 2007, 15:28]
HP And Orange To Build Secure EU Network
News This will provide a highly reliable and secure backbone to connect the new Schengen information system, which will include biometric data, and facilitate interoperability among different systems, allowing for better and swifter co-operation...
[October 6, 2006, 12:30]
Sprint Rejoins Race In Europe And Asia
News The company announced Tuesday it plans to build its own Internet backbone so it can launch Sprint services in 35 different countries in Asia and Europe by 2003. Using that as a base, it hopes to expand into key European and Asian markets in France...
[February 7, 2001, 7:50]
Sony And The EC Vie For Internet Villain Award
Talkback I do hope ISPs have the backbone to Just Say No to the EU/UK/Ireland's raging InfoFascism. However, the EU data retention directive affects EVERY EUROPEAN CITIZEN, ALL 450 MILLION OF US, and sounds like something we'd be tutting over China (or...
[December 16, 2005, 11:41]
EU's High-speed Research Network Goes Global
News Europe's financial investment in a high-speed backbone network for research — around €23m [£18m] per year — benefits Europe's competitiveness, but is also boosting collaboration between researchers on a global scale.
[March 3, 2008, 12:30]
