Tuesday, July 31, 2012

The Consequences of WAN Service History

US Oak Ridge lab software gets wireless between a rock and a hard place | The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 (so far!)

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The Consequences of WAN Service History
In our last few columns, we looked at the history of the Enterprise WAN, with the key takeaway being that reliable but very expensive private WAN services Frame Relay and now MPLS have been the dominant technologies for almost 20 years now, and we looked at the key factors affecting application performance over the WAN: bandwidth, Read More


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US Oak Ridge lab software gets wireless between a rock and a hard place
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The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 (so far!)
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Bring Your Own Mobile Devices to School
In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how to address the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Learn more.

A phased approach to IPv6 that's so easy, you'll almost think you're still ignoring it
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Oracle buys Xsigo for software-defined networking
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