traffic

Cisco launches $500m router

News Sprint, which has had the hardware and software in it labs since the summer of 2003, started running live traffic over a CRS-1 on Sunday in its San Jose facility. The router, dubbed the Carrier Routing System-1 (CRS-1), is designed for carrier...

26 May 2004, 14:35

GPS tech trialled on Swindon buses

News Initially the technology will be used on around 90 buses, at 50 bus stops and at 20 traffic-light junctions on one of the main bus routes through the Wiltshire town, although the system will have capacity for it to be expanded to up to 500 buses...

23 January 2007, 9:56

P2P users travelling mainly by eDonkey

News Last year, British company CacheLogic said BitTorrent -- a peer-to-peer technology optimised for downloading large files -- was accounting for more than half of all the file-swapping traffic on Internet service provider networks around the world.

30 August 2005, 9:11

T-Mobile boss mocks mobile Internet cynics

News To date, Internet traffic has been fixed line," he said. He added: "The growth of data and Internet traffic will displace fixed line. T-Mobile CEO Rene Obermann hit out at mobile Internet doubters on Friday, comparing them to the analysts who...

28 November 2005, 9:22

Wimbledon moves from AIX to Linux

News A few years ago Wimbledon had hundreds of servers to cope with the large volumes of Web traffic seen at peak times, according to Burns. The cache server, an IBM eServer xSeries, running on Linux will now deal with 90 percent of Web traffic.

18 June 2004, 12:45

Cisco set for huge router launch

News Although past estimates of traffic growth have been grossly exaggerated, most experts agree that the Internet is doubling about every 12 months. As telephone companies start replacing their old infrastructure with new Internet-based gear to carry...

24 May 2004, 12:00

Streaming video too fat for 3G phone networks

News The carriers are going to have to move the traffic off the mobile network eventually," said Albert Lin, an analyst at American Technology Research. Within eight to nine months, the network became congested with video traffic.

4 October 2005, 11:45

Frogger with a Roomba

News As Torrone and Fried begin setting up the Roomba -- attaching Styrofoam cups to serve as legs and wrapping it in a frog-green T-shirt -- everyone jokes about what will happen once it is sent into traffic.

16 March 2006, 10:10

Code exists to exploit TCP flaw

News The vulnerability primarily affects routers and other devices that handle traffic on the Internet. As a result, Symantec does not feel that this exploit will have an immediate impact on Internet activity, disrupt Internet traffic or cause system...

23 April 2004, 8:10

International coalition hits back at spam

News In addition, the group advocated that ISPs detect and shut off Internet traffic from "zombie" machines, hijacked consumer PCs on their networks used to send millions of unwanted email messages every day.

23 June 2004, 7:50

Nortel puts intelligent networking on the edge

News Nortel senior executives said they will allow operators to run a truly "converged network" -- carrying different services such as IP-VPNs and Internet traffic, and networking protocols such as ATM, frame relay and Ethernet on a single network.

10 May 2004, 16:45

What the future holds for corporate voice telephony via WLAN

News Voice and data traffic, and wired and wireless LANs are converging. At the same time as organisations plan to deploy WLANs, it's often the case that IT managers in the same organisations are considering upgrading wired LANs to handle both voice and...

28 June 2004, 11:05

Mobile broandband too energy inefficient?

News Noting that energy costs represent the third most expensive operating expense (OPEX) for carriers today -- and that energy costs continue to fluctuate and could rise -- the authors claim that the increase in data traffic resulting from the rise of...

15 January 2007, 9:22

How can YouTube cough up for clips?

News In the future, a budding video auteur trying to turn cash in may not have to worry about YouTube siphoning traffic. The problem is that you can kill your traffic by instituting these policies," said Luckett, who left Revver in December and is now...

1 February 2007, 10:17

AT&T: Net to hit full capacity by 2010

News In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today. He claimed that the "unprecedented new wave of broadband traffic" would increase fifty-fold by 2015 and that AT&T was investing $19bn to maintain...

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21 April 2008, 9:10