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Westminster Gets All Meshed Up
News Starting with a square mile across Soho and the West End, the entire City of Westminster will be connected by the end of 2008, a spokesperson for Westminster Council said on Monday. Work will now start on finally rolling out the network, with the...
[November 27, 2006, 15:21]
Britain's Biggest Wi-Fi Hot Spot Rides The Waves
News Square Mile International, a Wi-Fi service provider, is currently building a wireless "hot zone" on the coast of South England. This will provide wireless connectivity over an area of more than one square mile.
[January 13, 2004, 14:45]
Streaming Tech Doubles Broadband Speed
News You've probably heard plenty about the "last mile," but soon you may be hearing a lot more about the "middle mile" if streaming media start-up EdgeStream has its way. Today, however, anyone from anywhere in the world can go to our Web site, and if...
[April 10, 2002, 16:07]
Robot Race Draws Crowd
News The 250-mile course -- which won't be completely revealed until two hours before the start -- will require the computerised vehicles to drive through or around sand, mud, boulders, ditches, barbed wire, mountains and at least one overpass where...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
UK Regulators 'relaxed' On Net Neutrality
News Joking that "Ofcom is not concerned about whether the UK will move off its low-fibre diet and unblock that last mile", he criticised the regulator's "laissez-faire" attitude towards fibre to the home — which would replace the copper last-mile...
[March 20, 2007, 16:42]
Servers To Show Modest Growth
News He likened the difference to the construction of two tunnels: The Chunnel bored previously untouched ground between England and France at a cost of $387m per mile, while the "Big Dig" beneath Boston is costing $2bn per mile because it occupies...
[May 27, 2003, 8:00]
Steorn Demo Fails To Appear - Update
Blog Comment Perhaps you can arrange a trip with some of the physics dept.from Queen Marys on the Mile End Road for a good laugh. I ain't all that surprised. Perhaps it require some proximity to Liffey water?
[July 5, 2007, 11:40]
On The Feasibility Of Switching ISPs In Residential Multihoming
White Papers In theory, multihomed Internet hosts, that is, hosts simultaneously connected to multiple Internet Service Providers (ISP) should see increased access capacity, be able to circumvent possible last-mile congestion problems, and experience improved...
[October 19, 2007, 0:00]
Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) In Converged Application Platforms: Enabling Improved Utilization, Change Management, And Cost Reduction Through Hardware Assisted Virtualization
White Papers Over the years, the high speed last mile services have broadened their reach in tandem with wireless technology such as 3G and Wi-Fi, and end users are beginning to experience richer multimedia services in which video, voice, and data are...
[February 23, 2007, 23:00]
Air Transport: The Transformation Imperative
White Papers With traditional models of success under fire, airlines and airports must find new ways to reduce cost per mile, deliver differentiation to customers accustomed to buying on price, and comply with heightened security requirements-all while...
[December 5, 2004, 23:00]
Solving Network Congestion: When The E-Order Is Placed, Will Anyone Ever Get It?
White Papers The result is last mile network congestion that slows traffic, clogs the network, and results in lost data and disruptions in business processes. Protocols that govern data flow have proven to be ineffective in controlling traffic to the end user...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Making Universal Broadband Access A Reality
White Papers The forthcoming Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) standard will specify the protocols and interfaces for the use of Ethernet over this link as a first-mile or access network technology. Additionally, the paper introduces the EFMA, its role in...
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
Chinese Cities Team With Intel To Deploy Wimax
White Papers Deploying WiMax in Dalian and Chengdu will speed the deployment of broadband Internet connections by eliminating the need for last-mile connections between home and business users and an ISP, the statement said.
[June 19, 2004, 0:00]
Internet Access With EDGE And Orion 2000 IMA Equipment
White Papers Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA) is rapidly becoming popular as a "last-mile" alternative solution for Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILEC) and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC).IMA allows for the creation of higher cumulative...
[September 17, 2003, 0:00]
Grand Haven Uses Proxim In First Wi-Fi Network To Provide End-to-End City Coverage
White Papers Using Proxim's wireless solutions, the Wi-Fi network significantly improves quality of life in the city by allowing subscribers to cost-effectively connect to the Internet or place mobile Voice over IP telephone calls nearly everywhere within the...
[November 29, 2004, 23:00]
Satisfied Dial-Up Users Deliver Immediate Revenue Increase
White Papers But after running head-to-head tests, the other companies didn't compare to Akamai on last mile delivery improvements, which was where FootSmart.com's biggest pain point lay. Before turning to Akamai for end-to-end delivery, FootSmart.com looked at...
[June 15, 2005, 0:00]
Erlanger Health System Advances Patient Care And Improves Productivity For Healthcare Professionals
White Papers Erlanger's separate voice and data networks covered a 125-mile radius and some 30 sites, making the infrastructure costly and cumbersome to manage. Nortel Networks Ethernet Switching portfolio of products delivers a complete end-to-end solution for...
[October 21, 2004, 0:00]
Anchorage Water And Wastewater Utility Maximizes Efficiency And Accuracy Of Time Reporting With WorkTech Time
White Papers Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU) is the largest water and wastewater utility in Alaska, serving residential and commercial customers within a 50-mile radius of Anchorage. WorkTech Time provides a single point of entry for time and...
[February 3, 2005, 23:00]
WiMax On The Brink
News If this can't be achieved, the report warns WiMax could just end up as a last-mile niche player. Wireless broadband technologies like WiMax and MobileFi could still end up winners -- and possibly stymie 3G -- even if the big mobile firms get cold...
[December 15, 2004, 11:50]
Canary Wharf Gets The Wi-Fi Treatment
News Over time, though, operators have looked to construct increasingly larger networks, such as Broadreach's Wi-Fi hot zone in the West End of London, which stretches for 500m, or the mile-long hot zone created by Islington Council earlier this year.
[August 22, 2005, 13:15]
