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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Exposing Network Services for Enhanced Competitive Edge
- SingTel is Asia's leading communications group with operations and investments around the world. In the growing competitive telecommunications industry, SingTel needed new services revenue stream to maintain its top position. SingTel utilises BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper to tap on the growing consumer needs for new data services, provided by itself...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Network, Network Service, SingTel, Business Services, Telephony, Application Servers, Middleware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- 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
- AC Algorithms in AQUILA QoS IP Network
- This paper presents the Admission Control AC algorithms that are implemented in the prototype multi-service AQUILA QoS IP network. The discussed algorithms were developed for regulating traffic submitted to Network Services NS dedicated for handling: real-time streaming traffic of Variable Bit Rate VBR type, and elastic traffic, produced by greedy...
- Tags: Algorithm, Aquila Mining Systems, Network, Network Service, IP Network, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Engineering, Networking
- White papers 2005-11-08
- 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
- ATLANTIDES: An Architecture for Alert Verification in Network Intrusion Detection Systems
- This paper presents an architecture1 designed for alert verification (i.e., to reduce false positives) in network intrusion-detection systems. The technique in this paper is based on a systematic and automatic anomaly-based analysis of the system output, which provides useful context information regarding the network services. The false positives raised by...
- Tags: Network Intrusion Detection System, Network, Network Service, Intrusion Detection System, Anomaly, University Of Twente, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Networking, Security
- White papers 2007-09-19
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
