However, Gigabit Ethernet is not the only fast networking protocol touted as the answer to bandwidth problems: there's ATM, as the ITN case study - to be found in Silicon's Fast Networking Channel - proves.
With so many disparate developer strategies, the social-media landscape could grow even more fragmented, and Google launched the OpenSocial API (and later the Social Graph API) as a means to provide some connectivity.
The danger we have to look out for is the introduction of brittleness brought about by the optimization of the wrong parameters. It is necessary with almost all none linear systems to optimize as an overall end-to-end system.
The service provider uses Ethernet to transport IP traffic over optical wavelengths, coupled with Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), which it claims guarantees the timely delivery of the packets. Ethernet services will offer enterprises the...
All that is set to change with the advent of carrier-class Ethernet services and transport. Until now, metro networking has come at the cost of of a major step change from Ethernet to more expensive, less familiar and less flexible technologies...
Gigabit Ethernet products continue to be the preserve of 'early adopters' with Kyoto University in Japan and Curtin University of Technology in Australia the latest to deploy the networking kit. Simply put, while no one can say when capital...