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TCP Nice: A Mechanism for Background Transfers
White Papers The Internet experiments suggest that there is a significant amount of spare capacity on a wide variety of Internet links. Nice provides a mechanism to improve application performance by harnessing this capacity in a non-interfering manner.
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Hitachi SMS100 review
Reviews We tested the six-drive version of the SMS100 configured with 146GB SAS drives, which provided a total storage capacity of 531GB. However, the disk drives used during normal operation are sealed into the unit, and we are a little disappointed that...
[September 5, 2008, 14:45]
More power from the people...
Blog VMWare working on power management system on top of VI that spots spare capacity and shuts down or clams down servers to save power. [Live from VMWorld in Los Angeles] Also, says VMWare, letting virtual desktops run at employees homes saves power...
[November 7, 2006, 16:13]
This product represents a step change in wireless networking speed and range
Member Review It still has capacity to spare when simmultaneously streaming video and transferring files and surfing internet. The Belkin Pre-N Router wowed me from word go. The range covers a whole house and most of the grounds and I have yet to explore the...
[February 28, 2005, 8:06]
Optimized Design of Survivable MPLS Over Optical Transport Networks
White Papers The paper investigates two approaches to the survivability deployment: single layer and multilayer survivability and present various methods for Spare Capacity Allocation (SCA) to reroute disrupted traffic.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
On the Role of Helpers in Peer-to-Peer File Download Systems: Design, Analysis and Simulation
White Papers This motivates the approach in which it utilize idle users' spare upload capacity to significantly improve the download speed beyond what can be achieved in a conventional BitTorrent network. This asymmetry in bandwidth results in the overall...
[May 25, 2007, 1:00]
RAIDaid
Downloads Calculates RAID capacity automatically. Incorporates Hot Spare and JBOD. RAIDaid has an easy to use interface that allows you to view disk arrays in all popular RAID formats. You can now plan your RAID setup and configuration even if you don't...
[October 10, 2009, 17:55]
The curious case of the cables on the seabed
Blog Instead, though, the various operators and customers have learned to speak to each other, reallocating spare capacity in other circuits, using bandwidth intended for deployment later in the year, and other such measures.
[August 18, 2009, 17:22]
Dell Axim X5 review
Reviews The cradle can also accommodate the Axim X5 with a higher-capacity battery installed, and it has a second slot for charging up a spare battery. For expansion, you can expect CompactFlash and SD memory add-ons, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi cards, as well as...
[January 13, 2003, 16:15]
Mesh Matrix D750 Pro review
Reviews The A7V has three DIMM slots, one of which was occupied in the review system by a 128MB PC133 SDRAM module, giving a maximum memory capacity of 1.5GB. Removable storage is catered for by a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, which is fair enough at this...
[October 23, 2000, 0:00]
Iomega NAS P850m review
Reviews The P850m uses high-capacity, low-cost ATA drives to achieve high capacity. You can also set up one of the device's hard drives as a hot spare that will instantly take over from a failed drive and configure it to send out an email alert.
[July 24, 2003, 11:42]
Dell Dimension 8200 (2.8GHz Pentium 4) review
Reviews As befits a performance-orientated PC, the 2.8GHz Dimension 8200 uses Rambus memory - two of the motherboard’s four RIMM slots are filled with 256MB PC800 modules, giving a total of 512MB and a theoretical RAM capacity of 2GB.
[August 29, 2002, 14:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Each battery has around half the capacity of the best standard AA rechargeable, meaning you'll have to charge it twice as often. At 13 quid for two, you're paying four times the price per milliamp hour as you get from buying top-capacity standard...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
HP refreshes server lines
News It has 10 input-output slots to the DL580's seven, can accommodate 48GB of memory, and has more hard drive capacity. It doesn't employ hot-plug RAID memory but instead offers a less expensive alternative called online spare memory.
[March 30, 2005, 9:30]
Grid computing luring mainstream backers
News For example, the computing capacity of a large American bank may be largely unused overnight. In return, the bank might be given access to extra capacity during its peak hours. There's something very appealing about using all these spare (CPU...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Orange SPV M1000 review
Reviews There is a further 14.57MB of Flash memory available, and of course you can augment the storage capacity using SD cards. As well as the SPV M1000 itself and its docking cradle, Orange provides a reasonably good protective case, a handsfree kit, a...
[March 30, 2004, 14:05]
Oftel plans changes to unmetered Net access
News Oftel is also suggesting changes to the way that BT provides extra Friaco capacity, which could help ISPs who are seeking additional connections in local exchanges where there is no spare capacity. Currently they must pay in advance, which some in...
[January 28, 2002, 10:45]
Adobe takes to GridIron
News The hardware is used to its fullest capacity, instead of idling much of the time. Adobe Systems has signed a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its video effects software to tap into spare computing power on a network.
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
Win an HP RDX backup system review
Reviews Prices in the rest of the range vary, depending on the storage capacity. We have one 500GB model to give away, courtesy of HP, with a bonus prize of a removable 500GB disk cartridge as a spare. If yours is a small company with valuable data, then...
[June 18, 2009, 15:53]
Mobile phones going underground
News When that's done, we will have spare capacity and are looking into different options," says a London Underground spokeswoman. London's antiquated Underground rail service is getting a high-tech makeover that could give mobile phone users...
[October 17, 2000, 10:34]
