Hosted solutions are typically being operated from purpose-built centres that boast strong physical security, defences against natural hazards such as fire, diverse routing of communications facilities and almost unlimited backup for power supplies.
These include "edge caching," or positioning content on the network as close as possible to the people accessing it, for faster delivery. It also uses a technique known as multicasting, a process of intelligently routing audio and video in packets.
Slow progress of IP has been blamed on problems such as poor voice quality, an inability to scale up beyond more than 100 agent positions as well as limited routing and queuing features. While ease of deployment and network cost savings make for a...
Paul Bosco, vice president of video and cable initiatives at Cisco, said: "The platforms out there today will not scale to the degree that we envision. Arroyo has a strong technology team, including Drew Major, a founder of Novell and industry icon...
However, Turner said should the Storm owners want to start breaking encryption codes, they could do it in a similar fashion to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project - or SETI@home. SETI@home uses a distributed network of computers to...
Now, with the internet ubiquitous, we are all used to a highly distributed computing environment, with information obtained on demand via a wide array of computing devices, many of which are mobile. This distributed computing paradigm allows for a...