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- Geographic Surveillance and HotSpot Detection for Homeland Security: Cyber Security and Computer Network Diagnostics
- Securing the nation's computer networks from cyber attack is an important aspect of Homeland Security. Project develops diagnostic tools for detecting security attacks, infrastructure failures, and other operational aberrations of computer networks. They have developed models for studying the equilibrium behavior of multidimensional loss systems. The probabilistic finite state automaton...
- Tags: Computer Network, Pennsylvania State University, HotSpot, Network, Network Element, Cyber Security, Computer, Homeland Security, Networking, Productivity, Government
- Case studies
- Scalable and Secure Data Collection Using Bistro
- Hotspots are a major obstacle to achieving scalability in the Internet; they are usually caused by either high demand for some data or high demand for a certain service. At the application layer, hotspot problems have traditionally been dealt with using some combination of increasing capacity, spreading the load over...
- Tags: HotSpot, University Of Maryland, Internet, Wireless
- White papers
- Case Study: Wi-Fi Success at the Sundance Film Festival
- Movie star Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival has always pushed the envelope artistically, and with technology too. The event, held every January in Park City UT, a ski town near Redford's ranch, now includes a parallel online festival of short digital films, for example. This year, in a project that...
- Tags: HotSpot, Film Festival, Festival, Jupitermedia Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi
- Case studies
- Remote Wireless Computing: Expanding the Productivity of Mobile Workers
- Think public wireless, LANs or "hotspots" are just for road warriors? Guess again. With new hotspot locations popping up every day in cafes, bookstores, restaurants, etc., public wireless LAN access can be an important resource for any employee working away from the office. Remote wireless computing allows your workforce to...
- Tags: HotSpot, Mobile, Computing, Wireless, Wi-Fi
- Webcasts
- Rogers Wireless Chooses Azaire Networks for Wi-Fi Enabled HotSpot Locations Across Canada
- Rogers Wireless selected Azaire Networks as its core system provider for Wi-Fi services at HOTSPOT locations operated by Rogers Wireless across the country. Azaire's platform provides Rogers Wireless customers with secure authentication and authorization of Wi-Fi services at all Rogers Wireless HOTSPOT locations across Canada and the ability to pay...
- Tags: HotSpot, Rogers Wireless, Azaire, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications
- Case studies
- ECHOS - Enhanced Capacity 802.11 HotSpots
- Given the explosive growth in hotspot wireless usage, enhancing capacity of 802.11-based hotspot wireless networks is an important problem. This paper makes two important contributions. It first presents the AP-CST algorithm that dynamically adjusts the Carrier Sense Threshold (CST) in order to allow more flows to coexist in current 802.11...
- Tags: HotSpot, IEEE 802.11, Wireless
- White papers
- Datacraft Integrates Wireless LAN Security Software From Interlink Networks Into the World's Largest WLAN City HotSpot
- Seoul has over 10,000,000 people, and one of the highest population densities in the world at 17,039 persons per square kilometer. Seoul's high-speed Internet service enables easy Internet and content service access through a notebook computer or PDA equipped with a wireless LAN card. The WLAN service can be used...
- Tags: HotSpot, Interlink Networks, WLAN, Carrier, Datacraft, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- Case studies
- MetroNational Helps Houston Community Shop, Play and Work Using Proxim HotSpots
- When MetroNational, a billion dollar real estate investment, development and management company based in Houston, Texas, set out to renovate the local shopping mall, it had working parents in mind. Looking to keep people in touch while providing a place to shop and play, MetroNational turned to CDW and Proxim....
- Tags: HotSpot, Proxim Corp., Houston, Wireless, Real Estate, Wi-Fi, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Deutsche Messe AG Chooses the Wireless Switch System From Symbol Technologies to Power World's Largest HotSpot at CeBIT 2003
- Based in Hannover, Germany, Deutsche Messe AG (DMAG) is one of the world´s leading organizers of trade fairs and exhibitions. Deutsche Messe AG (DMAG), organizers of the CeBIT 2003 trade fair and exhibition, wanted to develop a secure wireless local area network (WLAN) with reliable Wi-Fi Internet access for visitors,...
- Tags: HotSpot, Wireless Switch, Symbol Technologies Inc., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Routers & Switches, Wireless, Networking
- Case studies
- New HotSpot Catches on Fast With Firetide Instant Mesh Networks
- Home to the film industry's leading post-production studios, Culver City has undergone extensive redevelopment in the past several years. The city wanted to deploy a hotspot downtown to encourage foot traffic and provide convenient Internet access for shoppers, business workers, and visitors. Using a Firetide Instant Mesh Network, the Culver...
- Tags: Internet Access, HotSpot, Network, Downtown, Wireless, Mesh Networking, Networking
- Case studies
- Statoil Fires Up Connection on the Move With Wireless HotSpots
- Statoil is Scandinavia's leading upstream and downstream oil company. Statoil operated a Frame Relay-based Wide Area Network and switched to an infrastructure based on Internet Protocol (IP) in a bid to reduce operational costs and enhance performance. The decision was taken to deploy Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Wireless Access Points...
- Tags: HotSpot, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Aironet, Wireless Hotspot, Statoil, Wireless
- Case studies
- Garderos Case Study: VTR
- VTR Broadband is a subsidiary of North American UnitedGlobalCom, the largest provider of services for communications and broadband outside the USA. In order to maximize the usage rate of its cable network, VTR decided to provide broadband Internet access not only to offices and homes but also to hotels and...
- Tags: HotSpot, Cable Network, VTR Broadband, Cable, Wireless, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
- Case studies
- Sutton Place Hotel Offers Wireless, High-Speed Internet Access Based on Pronto's HotSpot Managed Services
- The Sutton Place Hotel is located in Newport Beach in Southern California. The hotel was aware of the myriad benefits from broadband access, especially in guest rooms. Yet given the current economic climate, the solution needed to be cost effective for a hotel-wide rollout compared to using traditional wired approaches....
- Tags: Wireless High-speed Internet, HotSpot, Microsoft Access, Pronto Networks, Sutton Place Hotel, Broadband Internet, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Marketing Research, Networking, Marketing
- Case studies
- UK Leisure Boat Operator Uses WiFi Solution to Secure 50% Increase in Aftersales Service Productivity and Enable State of the Art Customer Service
- Walton Marina is a successful leisure boat marina operator based on the river Thames some 40 kilometers west of London. The challenge for the company was how to upgrade its IT systems in a protected building environment whilst simultaneously finding ways to improve internal efficiencies and external service levels. In...
- Tags: Customer Service, HotSpot, Environment, Wi-Fi, Intel Corp., Walton Marina, Wireless
- Case studies
- Grove Cafe Offers Wireless High-Speed Internet Access Based on Pronto's HotSpot Managed Services
- The Grove Cafe is a very popular coffee house and gourmet deli, located in the upscale Marina district of San Francisco. One of the main objectives for the Grove Cafe in setting up a public WLAN was to minimize the involvement of employees running or maintaining the wireless service. The...
- Tags: Wireless High-speed Internet, HotSpot, Microsoft Access, Pronto Networks, Cafe, Grove Cafe, Wireless, Business Services, Wi-Fi
- Case studies
- Geographic Surveillance and HotSpotDetection for Homeland Security: Disaster Management: Oil Spill Detection, Monitoring, and Prioritization
- Damage produced by marine oil spills includes soiled beaches, bird and mammal mortality, destruction of fisheries, impaired recreational facilities, and catastrophic impairment to entire ecosystems. The scan statistic hotspot delineation and poset prioritization tools will be used in combination with oil spill detection algorithm to provide for early warning and...
- Tags: Pennsylvania State University, HotSpot, Monitoring, Homeland Security, Disaster Management, Disaster Recovery, Wireless, Data Management
- Case studies
- HotSpot Shield (exe)
- Hotspot Shield is a freeware which ensures anonymous and censor-free internet usage. With Hotspot Shield you can even access blocked websites. For example: Skype is blocked in certain parts of the world. With Hotspot Shield, anyone can access Skype (and any other site they choose). The free software ensures censor-free...
- Tags: HotSpot, Hotspot Shield, Internet, Wireless
- Software downloads 2008-03-27
- WeFi (exe)
- WeFi enables reliable connection to Wi-Fi wherever wireless networks are available. Wefi users can move between open Wi-Fi networks automatically, monitor friends' online status and location, know the proximity of neighboring WeFi users who allow it and chat with them. WeFi hotspot directory will help you find a wireless network...
- Tags: HotSpot, Monitor, Network, Wireless Network, WeFi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi
- Software downloads 2008-03-24
- HotSpot Shield (942-2)
- Most public wi-fi hotspots are not secure and make your computer and communications vulnerable to hackers and security breaches. Hotspot Shield gives you a simple solution to maintain your anonymity and protect your privacy when accessing free wi-fi hotspots. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: HotSpot, AnchorFree Inc., Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Security
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- HotSpotexpress (iso)
- Hotspot Express is one of the pioneers of complete WiFi solutions. Be it WiFi hardware from any leading manufacturer or software solutions to secure and manage wired or wireless networks, Hotspot Express has a solution. Whether you are from an big Corporate, SME, Hotel, Resort, Cyber Caf, we have a...
- Tags: HotSpot, Solution, Hotspot Express, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Smb/Sme, Wi-Fi
- Software downloads 2008-02-05