How thin can you get? White House backs FCC broadband plan

	FCC National Broadband Plan Gets White House Support | Oracle engineer reveals latency mysteries with heat maps
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	How thin can you get? This is the third in a series of newsletters that is exploring our premise that we are returning to a new generation of mainframe computing. With that in mind, this newsletter will continue the discussion that was started in the last newsletter about how thin clients are the modern day equivalent of the dumb ASCII and IBM 3270 terminals of the previous mainframe era. In particular, this newsletter will discuss server side virtualization. This newsletter will also ask, and answer, the oft asked question: how thin can you get? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue In this Issue FCC National Broadband Plan Gets White House Support Oracle engineer reveals latency mysteries with heat maps Senate committee to investigate data retention by ISPs WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Deploying a Secure WLAN This paper walks through the steps to build a highly-secure wireless LAN and explains the technical considerations for: • Wireless privacy • Authentication • Client management and NAC • Network firewall and intrusion detection and protection • Identity-based access control • Rogue detection and WIDS • Compliance Read more! FCC National Broadband Plan Gets White House Support The FCC has been under intense political and industry pressure ever since Congress directed the agency to come up with a National Broadband Plan to guide the modernization and expansion of broadband Internet access in the United States. The White House is stepping in, though, to support the FCC plan and proceed with freeing up unused frequency spectrum for use in expanding wireless broadband. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Is your WAN designed with your applications in mind? WAN sourcing has been based on the cost of bandwith and availability. The focus is increasing on sourcing WAN solutions that can meet business needs for application performance. Read about Gartner's structured methodology to design a WAN that both performs well and is cost effective. Read Now Oracle engineer reveals latency mysteries with heat maps Heat maps can reveal, though not always explain, systems latency, an Oracle engineer argues Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Take Your WiFi to the Cloud Learn how to bring simplicity, security and scalability to your wireless network by leveraging the cloud. This Webcast demonstrates how cloud-controlled WiFi delivers: • Security • Reliability • Performance View now! Senate committee to investigate data retention by ISPs A Senate Committee will launch an inquiry into the collection of online data by Government agencies and private companies, including Internet service providers (ISPs). Read More
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