TechRepublic Resources
- Delivering Managed Network Services
- This paper describes the economic forces driving the market for managed network services and discusses the issues a service provider needs to consider in order to ensure profitable delivery of such services. It outlines the mutual benefits of strong partnerships between service providers and network equipment vendors. Finally, it describes...
- Tags: Network, Network Service, 3Com Corp., Business Services, Networking
- White papers
- Mainstream Wireless Network Services at the University of Plymouth
- The University of Plymouth is operating a wireless network service at all four of its main campuses across the south west of England. Based on the 802.11b WiFi standard, and using VPN (Virtual Private Network), the service is available to all bona fide members of the University, and gives access...
- Tags: Network, Network Service, Wireless Network, University Of Plymouth, VPNs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Network Security, Telecommunications
- Case studies
- Designing a Distributed Access Control Processor for Network Services on the Web
- Web services promise to promote the vision of a machine accessible Web, which can be used as a platform to conduct e-commerce and provide interoperability across organizations leveraging from a global Web infrastructure. The idea behind Web services is that they provide a common protocol that Web applications can use...
- Tags: Web, Network, Network Service, Web Service, Association For Computing Machinery, Access Control, Channel Management, Internet, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- Tasman Networks Case Study: MASERGY
- Based in Dallas, Texas, MASERGY is a privately-held company that provides outsourced network services over its own MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based network to hundreds of medium to large businesses in the U.S. and multi-national companies around the world. When MASERGY began selling its services, the network service provider offered two...
- Tags: Tasman Networks, PPP, QoS, MPLS, Network, Network Service, Frame Relay, Networking, Network Technology
- Case studies
- Active Service Management in QoS-Enabled Networks
- In the recent years there has been an increasing request of network services like distributed caching, VPN creation or remote process control. However, the possibility of exploiting this kind of services is not widespread and in some cases a long time is required to achieve the most appropriate setup. In...
- Tags: Service Management, QoS, Network, Network Service, Networking
- White papers
- Network Services for the Support of Very-Low-Resource Devices
- Visions of future computing scenarios envisage a multitude of very-low-resource devices linked by power-efficient wireless communication means. This paper presents the vision of such a scenario. From this vision requirements are derived for an infrastructure that is able to satisfy the largely differing needs of these devices. The paper also...
- Tags: Network, Network Service, Bluetooth, Wearable Computing, Vision, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Reliable Network Services for Global Banking Network SWIFT
- Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, SWIFT has 7,500 users in 200 countries. Earlier banks communicated via telex, a communications system consisting of teletypewriters connected to telephone networks. This system was not very secure, had minimum standards and was not automated. In response to this environment, 239 banks from 15 countries formed...
- Tags: Network, Network Service, Banking, Sprint Communications, Sprint IPL Service, Financial Services, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications
- Case studies
- Managed IP Hosting: Issues and Trends
- Companies depend on the Internet to conduct business with not only customers, but also partners and suppliers... which requires internal IT resources. To get the most of these IT resources, outsourcing Internet Protocol (IP) operations is becoming an increasingly important management strategy for ensuring high-quality and reliability. ...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Network, Network Service, IP, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers
- Agreement Signalling and Network Service Provisioning for Grids
- Resource-sharing is one of the Grid intrinsic properties enabling efficient usage of services by clients from many Virtual Organizations. This is particularly true for network infrastructures, which are typically designed to serve a large number of heterogeneous users. In such an environment, the support of network Quality of Service requires...
- Tags: Network, Network Service, Agreement, Networking
- White papers
- Portal-based delegation of Network Services? You can with iControl
- I have found great benefits in using delegation of network services internally. These services include virtual IP addresses for load-balanced Web servers, application servers that run Web services, and systems that have a remote data center or failover capability. The virtual IP addresses, when paired with DNS names, offer great...
- Tags: Team, Network, Network Service, Failover, Delegation, Portals, Team Management, Networking, Internet, Management, Rick Vanover
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Remote Registry Editing in Windows NT 4.0
- The following Windows NT tip comes from the vast TechRepublic archives. It was featured in our Windows NT TechMail dated November 15, 1999: Today's Windows NT Tip Hunt down problem drivers with remote registry editing Looking for a quick way to deal with...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Registry, Network Service, Registry Editor, Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Selecting a Network Service Provider for Cisco TelePresence Solutions
- A breakthrough technology for remote meetings, Cisco TelePresence integrates advanced audio, ultra-high-definition video and interactive collaboration tools with the underlying network as the platform to deliver an immersive meeting experience. Through this powerful combination of technology and design, local and remote participants feel as if they are in the same...
- Tags: Cisco TelePresence, Network, Network Service, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco TelePresence Experience
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Network Service Core (zip)
- Network Service Core (NSCore) is a stand-alone class library to provide class-module for the network service. Because of a clean natural Object-Oriented approach the library is easy to use and implement. NSCore is designed to be a simple and flexible enhancement to any Windows services. This version is the first...
- Tags: Network, Network Service, NSCore
- Software downloads 2008-02-11
- Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this 5-day, instructor-led course, get the knowledge and skills you need to implement, manage, and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure. Learn to execute routing and to implement, manage, and maintain Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS),...
- Tags: DHCP, Monitor, Network Infrastructure, Network, DNS, Network Service, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Domain Name, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Domain Names, IPSec, Networking, Microsoft Windows, Remote Access, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware
- Training 2008-01-01
- Intelligent Network Services: The Underlying Power of Unified Communications Applications
- Applications and services are becoming untied from physical servers, a trend known as resource virtualization. For example, the physical PBX of yesterday has been deconstructed into a collection of communication applications and network services that reside within an intelligent network. Resource virtualization provides particularly powerful benefits for federal government. Why?...
- Tags: Application, Network, Network Service, Unified Communications, Resource Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Networking, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Take this four-phase approach to a network risk assessment
- I've written before on the importance of conducting a regular gap analysis of your organization's security practices. While it's vital that your organization regularly perform such audits of security policies and procedures, it's just as important to include a network risk assessment in this process. An external network...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, Network, Network Service, Vulnerability, Network Risk Assessment, Networking, Mike Mullins
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- TechNet Webcast: Securing Services and Critical Accounts (Level 300)
- Many organizations implement network services or applications that rely upon a service account. However, these applications often require service accounts to be configured to run with the highest possible privileges, a security risk that can enable an attacker to gain unrestricted access to the computer, domain, or entire forest. It...
- Tags: Webcast, Network, Network Service, Service, Microsoft TechNet
- Webcasts 2006-04-13
- IPTV Demands a Real-Time Control System That Assures the Quality of Experience
- The transition to a converged next generation IP network infrastructure opens a world of next generation network service possibilities that unite voice, video, and data. IPTV is set to have a major impact on the telecommunications provider future, enabling them to effectively compete for control of the next-generation broadband home....
- Tags: Network, Network Service, IP Television, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco BPM, TVs, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2006-06-21
- Evaluating the Impacts of Network Information Models on Applications and Network Service Providers
- Configurable optical networks and wide-area resource sharing in the form of Grid computing provide intriguing opportunities for new application capabilities and resource efficiencies. The resulting Lambda-Grid is a collection of geographically dispersed compute, storage and visualization resources that can be interconnected on-demand with private, high speed optical circuits (i.e., lambdas)....
- Tags: Network, Network Service, University Of California, Networking
- White papers 2007-06-29
- Optimal Routing of Dynamically Priced Network Services
- The use of dynamically priced network services was previously proposed to provide QoS guarantees within a network. End-to-end QoS can be achieved by concatenating several of these services from different ISPs. This paper considers the problem of a single ISP determining the optimal paths on which to route each service...
- Tags: Network, Network Service, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet
- White papers 2007-03-31
