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A Flow-Based Approach To Modeling ADSL Traffic On An IP Backbone Link
White Papers Measurements from an Internet backbone link carrying TCP traffic towards different ADSL areas are analyzed in this paper. The originality of the experimental data reported in this paper, when compared with previous measurements from very high speed...
[February 13, 2005, 23:00]
Grand Hotel Europe Goes Wi-Fi
White Papers The high-speed internet access is based on some of the latest technology of Cisco Systems and benefits from a high speed direct connection to the Peterstar Internet Backbone. The Grand Hotel Europe has launched Wireless Internet Access, known as...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Performance Evaluation Of Scalable TCP And HighSpeed TCP Over Geostationary Satellite Links
White Papers These two protocols, originally designed for high-speed backbone links, appear to be major candidates for replacing in the next-generation Internet the current congestion control mechanism implemented by standard TCP.
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
ROMER: Resilient Opportunistic Mesh Routing For Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers This backbone efficiently forwards user traffic to a few Gateway APs (GAPs), which additionally have high-speed connections to the wired Internet. In a mesh network, High-speed Access Points (HAPs), equipped with advanced antennas, communicate with...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Hospitality Broadband - The Case For Wireless
White Papers Plus, your staff will benefit when your management computers are connected to the backbone, providing a robust and speedy connection for corporate communication, reservations, and other back office systems.
[October 18, 2005, 0:00]
FAST TCP: From Background Theory To Experiments
White Papers A breakthrough that has allowed the Internet to expand by five orders of magnitude in size and in backbone speed in the last 15 years was the invention in 1988 by Jacobson of an end-to-end congestion control algorithm in TCP (Transmission Control...
[December 6, 2007, 23:00]
Cisco IP+Optical Networking Solution Selected For GrangeNet Project To Build Australia's Largest R&D Network
White Papers GrangeNet (GRid and Next GEneration Network) has been awarded a A$14 million, 3-year grant by the Federal Government to develop and operate a very high-speed backbone network, linking universities and other public and private research facilities...
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
IPv6 - The Solution For The Next Generation Internet?
White Papers For the first time now, wireless carriers can pressurize commercial backbone operators to implement IPv6. Today, the Internet is at a point of the next threshold. With the convergence of voice, video & data the existing communication backbones are...
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
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]
SLA-Based QoS Pricing In DiffServ Networks
White Papers A number of alternatives for service differentiation and QoS provisioning have been proposed and standardized, but in the case of backbone, transport networks the DiffServ architecture has prevailed, due to its scalability and deployment feasibility.
[August 4, 2006, 0:00]
Cisco Systems And GrangeNet Enhance Advanced Collaboration And EResearch Facilities Through GrangeNet II
White Papers The GrangeNet advanced network program is a five member consortium, originally awarded a AUD$14 million, three-year grant by the Federal Government to develop and operate a high-speed backbone network linking universities and other public and...
[May 24, 2006, 0:00]
10-Gbit/s DWDM System With A Band Management Feature
White Papers ALONG with the spread of IP (Internet protocol) networks in the public infrastructure, there has been a growing need to build a high-speed optical backbone. This paper describes Hitachi's 10-Gbit/s optical transmission solutions, applications based...
[December 23, 2004, 23:00]
Streaming Tech Doubles Broadband Speed
News Whereas broadband providers aim to bridge the gap between the home and the high-speed Internet backbone, EdgeStream's turf is the open field that connects broadband users to the content they want to consume.
[April 10, 2002, 16:07]
Internet2 Sets New Speed Record
News Researchers have set a data transmission record over the Internet2's high-speed backbone. Internet2 is a consortium of more than 200 universities working with industry and government to develop next-generation Internet technology.
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
Intel Chief: UK Well Positioned To Lead Europe
News Bill Gates, among others, has said that the speed of connection in to the home -- the so-called "last mile" between the high-speed Internet backbone and people's computers -- will continue to be a bottleneck for the conceivable future.
[June 20, 2001, 16:16]
MSN Launches Broadband Trials
News Microsoft said UUNet, a national backbone provider, will be handling the DSL infrastructure. DSL, offered mainly through regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) such as Pacific Bell and Bell Atlantic, and cable-modems, offered through cable...
[March 30, 1999, 7:10]
VoIP: What You Need To Know
News VoIP refers to voice calls that are routed over online networks using the Internet Protocol - the protocol that serves as the backbone of the Internet and is used to ferry emails, instant messages and Web pages to millions of connected devices.
[August 15, 2005, 15:20]
UK Hit By Nationwide ADSL Crash
News A BT spokesman confirmed that there was a fault with BT's IP backbone network -- known as Colossus -- this morning. Tens of thousands of high-speed Internet users were unable to access the Web on Tuesday morning, because of a serious system failure...
[November 20, 2001, 15:02]
Broadband Fulfilling Its Promise
News To date, Internet development has been marked by extremes: although the nation has a glut of "backbone" bandwidth that can move data from coast to coast in an instant, these high-speed networks slow to a relative crawl at the infamous juncture...
[July 27, 2004, 11:50]
Real Bandwidth: Internet2 Goes Live
News Working with the Internet2 community, IBM will build powerful new applications that are feasible only on a backbone with such enormous capacity as Abilene," said John Patrick, vice president of Internet technology at IBM, in a statement.
[February 26, 1999, 10:10]
