Advanced Datacom Systems (ADS) is providing Punch Retail with its Emcom NET/QC system to monitor the performance of its wide area network (WAN) throughout the UK. Formerly know as Allied Domecq Retail, the pub restaurant chain will use the set up...
As a LAN technology, Ethernet is often accused of packet-loss, bottlenecking problems and a lack of quality of service (QoS). The advent of its fatter version is opening up the transfer of WAN data from ATM, frame-relay or packet over SONET/SDH to...
It is possible to avoid some of these problems by using strict policy management and most current routers come with quality of service (QoS) features that allow businesses to prioritise voice and video packets.
But IP, of course, was not designed to provide a guaranteed quality of service (QoS) to the traffic it carries; it was originally designed as a way of diversely routing data to ensure redundancy in case network nodes were being jammed, crashed or...
And if it happens in the US, which would be wonderfully ironic as that is the country that created the internet, we might see the EU network operators queuing up with their wallets open ready to skim off more money than they are actually due by...
At this year's Mobile World Congress tradeshow, senior execs from the industry, such as Ericsson's CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg were queuing up to hail 2007 as a 'breakthrough year' for mobile broadband. Q is for QoS