Networks

Cellphone-like Fast WiFi Handoffs [Passpoint Roaming]

May 8, 2012 |

Cellphones switch from one cell tower to another pretty quickly while you’re on the go. However, Wifi negotiations and handoffs are way more slower. However, Fast handoffs for Wifi from one… Read more »

Google Gigabit Fiber Speed Test, Benchmarks

August 24, 2011 |

Google had announced that it would be providing Gigabit network to the home, in order to study the usages of high speed internet. Google Fiber networks are now being installed… Read more »

How Optical Fiber Cables Work [Easy Video explanation]

June 22, 2011 |

You might have come across several explanations of how light of a particular wavelength can carry data, voice or video over a single thin Optical fiber cable. Basically, your data,… Read more »

IPv4 Address Depletion countdown, RIPs on Feb 1st

January 23, 2011 |

IPv4 addresses, as we know it today, nears it end. With everything from smartphones to Internet-linked appliances and cars getting online, the group entrusted with organizing the Web is running… Read more »

Nokia Siemens buys Motorola Wireless, boost 4G Networks

July 19, 2010 |

The Telco equipment manufacturer giant, Nokia Siemens Networks, has agreed to purchase the network equipment division of Motorola for $1.2 billion. The business proposition is easy: The dying Motorola’s business… Read more »

Leveraging Cloud Computing to Drive Mobile Wireless Networks

March 28, 2010 |

Planning and building a Wide area Wireless Network could be painfully challenging. Mobile service Providers have faced different kinds of challenges in Maintaining the 3G network throughout countries like US, UK, India,… Read more »

Throttle Internet Bandwidth on Windows

March 18, 2010 |

Very Often certain Internet applications prove out to be Bandwidth hungry and often choke the internet connection. As an aftermath, the other apps struggle to steal bandwidth. There’s an app… Read more »

Cisco CRS-3 Boosts Internet Backbone Speeds to 322 Terabits

March 9, 2010 |

We had been waiting for Cisco to “Change the Internet Forever”, and seems like they almost did. Cisco has launched CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, is three times faster than its… Read more »

Bandwidth Challenges for Enterprise

November 10, 2009 |

Most small-medium enterprises (SMEs) suffer from bandwidth shortages pertaining to users engaging in file sharing applications who were consuming all of its network bandwidth. Often companies deploy expensive solutions to tackle the… Read more »

Cisco targets Mobile Internet, acquires Starent

October 13, 2009 |

We know how serious Cisco is on becoming 4G Leader in the mobile space as a provider. But what we see today, gives cisco another opportunity in Mobile space: Rich… Read more »

Cisco could become 4G Leader: WiMax and Now LTE

September 20, 2009 |

Cisco already had it’s underlying technology of WiMAX with their previous acquisition of Navini Networks and involvement with Service Provider Clearwire, Cisco now plans to explore and play in the LTE… Read more »

Cisco, VMWare create “Disaster Avoidance” VMotion over Long Distance

September 2, 2009 |

VMotion, a VMware product, provides seamless OS Load balancing. VMotion allows individual virtual machines to be dynamically moved to another VMware server without impact to users. Cisco and VMware announced… Read more »

New Approach to Detect and Tackle Network Latency Issues Effectively

August 21, 2009 |

Network Latency is critical for almost all kinds of networks and applications running on them. One of the key challenges is is finding the source of latency issues in an… Read more »

Ethernet Scalable to 100,000 ports Switched LAN and beyond, Upper-limit broken

August 19, 2009 |

Currently, Ethernet standard offers an upper-limit to maximum no. of ports that can be connected on a Ethernet LAN.This limit not particular to a vendor but rather to do with… Read more »

BGP 4byte ASN Vulnerable to DoS on Cisco IOS, IOS XE – Fix Released

August 4, 2009 |

4byte ASN (autonomous system numbers) was incorporated into most BGP routers recently. Since we are running out of ASN no. given to service providers, authority have stopped using previous Internet 2byte BGP… Read more »

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