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Closing the POP3 Protocol Gap With a POP3 Gateway for SMBs
Jul 2010
A POP3 connector allows various companies solve an actual problem of downloading mail from external POP3 servers and delivering it to Microsoft Exchange Server or any other SMTP server. Normally,...
Provided by ppedv
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White Papers
Remote Access - Attack Vectors: Threats, Findings & Remedies
Jul 2010
The variety of mobile devices on company networks has eased communications across long distances, but has also increased the risks. Organizations sharing data and collaborating on inexpensive and...
Provided by NCP engineering
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Case Studies
HP Case Study: South-East Regional Health Authority (Canada)
Jan 2010
For 125 years, South-East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has gone to great lengths to provide southeastern New Brunswick residents with outstanding medical care. They require the system which...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Case Study: Prudential Northwest Properties, USA
Jan 2010
Prudential Northwest Properties is the largest independently owned real estate agency in the Pacific Northwest, with more than $1.6 billion in sales. Prudential Northwest soon realized that a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP Case Study: Century-Old Architectural Firm Delivers Cutting-Edge Designs With Converged 3Com High Performance Small Business Network, USA
Jan 2010
Succeeding in the hotly contested field of architectural design is becoming more challenging every day. With the costs of new construction and renovations on the rise, clients demand...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP Case Study: Dallas Cowboys (USA)
Jan 2010
The football team's third site, the Dallas Cowboys Merchandise (DCM) and warehouse center, processes all order taking and fulfillment for Cowboys-brand apparel and other products. In addition, the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
New Dubai Hospital Drives Growing Medical Tourism With 3Com High-Performance Small Business Network
Jan 2010
New Dubai Hospital Drives Growing Medical Tourism. Moreover, to attract medical tourists, the Specialty Hospital must offer its services affordably, which meant its network had to be inexpensive...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Powerful Core Switching From 3Com Helps Konkuk University "Dream Konkuk 2011" Become a Reality
Jan 2010
Konkuk University is one of the most prestigious universities in Korea. Konkuk University was faced with not only meeting the immediate network demands of its 20,000 students and 590 staff...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Case Study: Goodwill Industries of Toronto (Canada)
Jan 2010
Goodwill Industries International is one of the world's largest providers of education, training, and career services for the disabled and disadvantaged. Goodwill Toronto sought an enterprise...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Case Study: Mathias Hospital (Germany)
Jan 2010
Boasting a tradition of medical excellence since 1851, the Mathias Hospital has long recognized the life-critical role communications play in serving the 18,000 patients it treats each year....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP Case Study: First to the Finish (USA)
Jan 2010
Whether in sports or business, Mike Viano, former track star and founder of First to the Finish, knows that to end up a winner, one must start with the right equipment. To better serve its...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP Case Study: Dumfries and Galloway Local Education Authority (Scotland)
Jan 2010
Dumfries and Galloway is a rural Education Authority in southwest Scotland. The 3Com systems served the purposes for which they were originally intended, the increasing demands created bottlenecks...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Case Study: Cumberland University, USA
Jan 2010
Founded in 1842, Cumberland University is a private, liberal arts institution located in Lebanon, TN, near Nashville. They wanted fast access to the university's campus administrative management...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Midwestern Health Insurance Company Builds High-Speed Network
Apr 2008
Priority Health is a nationally recognized health insurance company, with headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As part of its corporate goals to expand its service territory, Priority Health...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Nortel Network Case Study: Adelphi
Jan 2010
Adelphi provides market intelligence to global drug companies and employs some 500 scientists in offices around the world. Adelphi's legacy communication system lacked the resilience and features...
Provided by Nortel Networks
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Case Studies
Online Ad Sales Company Accelerates Application Delivery
Aug 2008
Founded in 2001, Gorilla Nation is the world's largest online ad sales representation company. Gorilla Nation wanted to consolidate load balancing, switching, and virtualization in an all-in-one...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Helvetia Switzerland Accelerates Time to Revenue and Reduces Future Development Costs With Cisco WAAS Mobile Solution
Nov 2009
Helvetia Switzerland is the largest business in the Helvetia Group with 2200 employees, 750,000 customers, and over half of total premiums. Helvetia Switzerland wanted to better enable mobile...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Cisco Systems Case Study: Online Bank Secures Future Leadership
Nov 2009
ING Romania wanted to provide customers with seamless access to online bank applications and accommodate increase in traffic and create capacity for future expansion. The challenge was to improve...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
XL: An Efficient Network Routing Algorithm
Jul 2008
In this paper, authors present a new link-state routing algorithm called Approximate Link state (XL) aimed at increasing routing efficiency by suppressing updates from parts of the network. They...
Provided by University of California
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Case Studies
Halifax Cetelem Credit Ltd. Goes Live With Europe's First IP-Based Customer Contact Centre
Jan 2010
Halifax Cetelem Credit Ltd. is among the newest entrants to the retail credit market in the UK. The company realized that it needed a flexible and scalable communications structure that would make...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
3Com Inoculates Healthcare Network Against Overload by Rapidly Delivering Patient-Critical Medical Imaging & Applications
Jan 2010
As one of East Tennessee's leading healthcare providers, Covenant Health relies on advanced technologies to deliver information and data to employees and physicians at six hospitals and 100-plus...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
The Prince Hotel & Residence Partners With 3Com to Become One of the First to Offer Wireless High-Speed Internet Access in Malaysia
Jan 2010
The Prince Hotel & Residence is part of the premier 5 Star Japanese hotel chain, Prince Hotels. The hotel management wanted a solution that was cost effective, and would allow the management team...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
3Com Global Services Delivers Turnkey Network Solution to Grow Award-Winning Scottish Law Firm
Jan 2010
Golds provide legal and corporate services for residential and commercial lenders, insurance companies, and consumers. Golds made a crucial strategic decision to grow the firm by focusing 90...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Case Study : Vineland School District, USA
Jan 2010
More than a decade after launching its first district-wide network, the Vineland School District, which as New Jersey's largest, spans more than 69 square miles, remains committed to providing its...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Research Laboratory Builds World-Class Data Center
Oct 2009
Located in Livermore, California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national security laboratory, with a mission to help ensure national security and apply science and technology to the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
WA Education Department and Cisco Deliver Advanced End-to-End e-Learning Solution to More Than 800 Schools and Colleges
May 2008
The Western Australian Department of Education and Training (WA DET) is responsible for providing a quality learning environment across the state. WA DET wanted to improve flow of internet traffic...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Healthcare Provider Builds Parallel PBX Voice Network
Jul 2009
Baptist Health South Florida is the largest faith-based, not-for-profit health care organization in the Southeastern United States. Baptist Health South Florida created a cost-effective network...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Information Technology and Services Firm SRA International Reduces Branch IT Costs
Jul 2008
SRA solves complex problems of global significance for clients in the national security, civil government and global health markets. SRA wanted to ensure LAN-like application performance for...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Auto Dealership Boosts Branch Efficiency
May 2010
Larry H. Miller Group wanted to slow application performance at branch locations and there was need for increased IT efficiency across data center and branch locations. The challenge was the WAN...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Service Provider Increases Scalability, Gains Competitive Edge
May 2010
Founded in 2005, SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. provides global, on-demand data center and hosting services from three data centers in Dallas, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and Washington D.C....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Avaya Case Study: Belfor
Mar 2009
BELFOR is a global recovery company that specializes in responding to insured incidents through a network of 16 response centres .BELFOR needed a reliable and scalable telephony solution that...
Provided by Avaya
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Case Studies
Netgear Connect With Innovation
Aug 2009
BMW, the prestigious German car marque, is known world-wide for precision and high performance. The demands of the powerful software meant it would quickly outgrow the existing server and...
Provided by NETGEAR
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QoS Routing in Ad Hoc Networks Using QOLSR With no Need of Explicit Reservation
Jan 2010
Multimedia applications often require guaranteed quality of service (QoS) and resource reservation, which has raised a number of challenging technical issues for routing. Authors have proposed the...
Provided by University of Paris
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Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks With Omni Directional and Directional Antenna: A Comparative Study
Jan 2010
Several routing schemes have been proposed in the context of mobile ad hoc network. Some of them use multiple paths simultaneously by splitting the information among multitude of paths, as it may...
Provided by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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White Papers
Interference-Aware Loop-Free Routing For Mesh Networks
Jan 2010
In recent years, there has been an explosive growth in the development of mesh networks to provide cheap yet high band width Internet access to areas that does not have coverage of high-bandwidth...
Provided by University of Illinois
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DCAR: Distributed Coding-Aware Routing in Wireless Networks
Mar 2008
The practical network coding system proposed in has two fundamental limitations like the coding opportunity is crucially dependent on the established routes; the coding structure is limited within...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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White Papers
Better Operating System Features for Faster Network Servers
Jan 2010
Widely-used operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale Internet server applications. Their algorithms and interfaces fail to efficiently support either event-driven or...
Provided by Rice University
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White Papers
Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Sep 2007
Bluetooth is a cutting-edge technology used for implementing wireless ad-hoc networks. In order to provide an overall scheme for mobile ad-hoc networks, this paper deals with scatternet topology...
Provided by Czech Technical University
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Routing in Overlay Multicast Networks
Jan 2010
Multicast services can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated features, and can...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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Designing Routing Metrics for Mesh Networks
Jan 2010
Designing routing metrics is critical for performance in wireless mesh networks. The unique characteristics of mesh networks, such as static nodes and the shared nature of the wireless medium,...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Lightpath Bundling and Anycast Switching (LB+AS): A New Paradigm for Multilayer Optical Networks
Jan 2012
In IP over WDM multilayer optical networks, IP routers are interconnected by all-optical channels called lightpaths, of typical rates of 10, 40 or, more recently, 100 Gbps. In this context,...
Provided by UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA
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Add/Drop Contention-Aware RWA With Directionless ROADMs: The Offline Lightpath Restoration Case
Jan 2012
Directionless RecOnfigurable Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) permit to change the direction of an added/dropped lightpath without manual intervention. If the ROADM is also colorless, its wavelength...
Provided by UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA
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ERONs: Dynamic Lightpath Networking Via Overlay Control of Static Optical Connections
Jan 2009
To bridge the gap between the current practice of setting up expensive, dedicated, lightpath connections (i.e., static topologies), and the distant future vision of inexpensive access to...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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Importance of Multicast Virtual Private Networks Based on RFC 2547
Jun 2010
The Multi-protocol Label Switching is one of the proposed technologies useful for traffic engineering in the specific aspects of measurement and control of Internet traffic and Virtual Private...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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JAVOBS: A Flexible Simulator for OBS Network Architectures
Feb 2010
Since the OBS paradigm has become a potential candidate to cope with the needs of the future all optical networks, it has really caught the attention from both academia and industry worldwide. In...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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System Impact of Cascaded All-Optical Wavelength Conversion of D(Q)PSK Signals in Transparent Optical Networks
Feb 2010
The authors will compare techniques for all-optical wavelength conversion of differentially phase-modulated signals using four-wave mixing and super-continuum generation. For the super-continuum...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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A New All-Optical Switching Node Including Virtual Memory and Synchronizer
Feb 2010
This paper presents an architecture for an all optical switching node. The architecture is suitable for optical packet and optical burst switching and provides appropriate contention resolution...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Efficient Load Balancing Techniques for Self-organizing Content Addressable Networks
Mar 2010
Balancing the load in a decentralized P2P system is a challenging problem due to the dynamic nature of such environment and the absence of global knowledge about the actual composition of the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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The Research of Load Balancing Technology in Server Colony
May 2010
When the network is using many servers to provide network services, it needs a load balancing technique. This paper has researched load-balancing technique that is based on Address Translation...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Weight Based Multiple Support Vector Machine Identification of Peer-to-Peer Traffic
May 2010
These years, P2P applications are very popular on the Internet and take a big part of the Internet traffic workload. Identifying the P2P traffic and understanding their behavior is an important...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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An Analytical Latency Model for Networks-on-Chip
Dec 2011
The authors propose an analytical model based on queueing theory for delay analysis in a wormhole-switched Network-on-Chip (NoC). The proposed model takes as input an application communication...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Parallel Probing: Dynamic and Constant Time Setup Procedure in Circuit Switching NoC
Dec 2011
The authors propose a circuit switching Network-on-chip with a parallel probe searching setup method, which can search the entire network in constant time, only dependent on the network size but...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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A Scalable Model for the Performance Evaluation of ROADMs With Generic Switching Capabilities
Oct 2010
In order to evaluate the performance of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) consisting of a single large switch, in circuit switched Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM)...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Tb/s Transmission and Routing Systems Using Integrated Micro-Photonic Components
Nov 2010
Today, the world is witnessing a resurgence of the growth and increasing customer demand for capacity in optical networks. A major factor for this growth is an unprecedented deployment of optical...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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All-optical Label Swapping Techniques for Optical Packets at Bit-rate Beyond 160 Gb/s
Nov 2010
In this paper two different paradigms to realize a scalable all-optical packet switch with label swapping will be presented. All the functions required for switching the packets are based on...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Advanced Test-beds to Validate Physical Estimators in Heterogeneous Long Haul Transparent Optical Networks
Nov 2010
The capacity growth driven by increasing traffic and the introduction of new devices and technologies has resulted in new functionalities in optical networks. The property of transparency enables...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Deployment and Validation of GMPLS-Controlled Multi-layer Integrated Routing Over the ASON/GMPLS CARISMA Test-bed
Nov 2010
The efficient accommodation of sub-wavelength client flows on optical channels is a current challenge for the optimization of resources in GMPLS-controlled optical networks. While the capacity of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Design and Development of a Semantic Information Modelling Framework for a Service Oriented Optical Internet
Nov 2010
The evolution of IT and network technologies has generated far-reaching opportunities for complex service innovation in future Internet. This has resulted in an increase in the heterogeneity and...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Feedback Based Load Balancing, Deflection Routing and Admission Control in OBS Networks
Nov 2010
The Optical Burst Switching (OBS) paradigm allows statistical multiplexing directly at the optical layer. Thus, OBS networks are suited to carry traffic demands varying in either the short or long...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Analyzing Power Consumption in Optical Cross-connect Equipment for Future Large-Capacity Optical Networks
Nov 2010
The authors describe a comparative analysis of the power consumption of Optical Cross-Connect (OXC) equipment based on electrical and/or photonic matrix switching, which will be used for future...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Trigonometric Transforms for High-Speed Optical Networks: All-Optical Architectures and Optical OFDM
Nov 2010
In this paper, it is shown that the use of real trigonometric transforms can advantageously replace the Fourier transform in optical communication systems, for both all-optical and electronic...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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The L2-LInfinite Control for Leader-following Coordination With Switching Topology and Time-delay
Dec 2010
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the study of consensus problems for multi-agent systems. Because there are many applications of multi-agent systems in many areas such as...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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The Research of TRIP Protocol Based on Soft-switching Technology
Dec 2010
This paper makes a comparison through the TRIP agreement in different soft switching network, the authors find that the TRIP protocol in the improved network performs better than the old, and the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A New Adaptive Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier
Dec 2009
A new adaptive Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) proposed. In the amplifier, an array of 1x2 optical switches is controlled to select the optimum length of erbium-doped fiber for different input...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Asymmetrical Interleaver Filters Based on One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Theory
Dec 2009
Based on the theory of one-dimensional photonic crystal, an asymmetrical interleaver filter is proposed. It is composed of cascaded thin-film glass cavities. Each thin-film glass cavity is formed...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Compact Routing in Power-Law Graphs
Jul 2009
Message routing is a fundamental service in communication networks. When routing a message from a source to a destination in the network, to decide where to forward the message to, a node may only...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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Analysis of the Spectrum Characteristics of a Super Linear Optical Modulator
Dec 2009
The authors demonstrate the superior RF spectrum characteristics of an ultra-linear modulator. This modulator exhibits excellent linearity (Spurious Free Dynamic Range, SFDR ~ 133 dB at 1Hz...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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All-Optical Grooming for 100 Gbit/s Ethernet
Dec 2009
A regenerative optical grooming switch for interconnecting 100 Gbit/s networks with lower bit-rate networks and switching functionality in time, space and wavelength domain is demonstrated. Lab...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Capacity Achieving Modulation Format for High-Speed Optical Networks
Dec 2009
In recent years, the authors have witnessed an increased demand on optical-networks transmission-capacities due to the growing popularity of the Internet and multimedia in everyday life. According...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Phase-Preserving Amplitude Noise Suppression Using an Attenuation-Imbalanced NOLM
Dec 2009
A nonlinear optical loop mirror with a bidirectional attenuator has been used for regeneration of Return-to-Zero Differential Phase-Shift-Keyed (RZ-DPSK) signals. A 2.5 ps, 10 Gb/s signal with...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Migration to the Next Generation Optical Access Networks Using Hybrid WDM/TDM-PON
Jan 2011
Due to the rapid growth of Internet and multimedia services, broadband fiber access technologies, such as Passive Optical Networks (PONs), come to the forefront of the research field. Network...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Comparison of the Design Characteristics of MMI Wavelength Demultiplexers Using Different Approaches by Computing the Effective Index
Apr 2011
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is the key technique for high data rates communication systems. WDM systems offer many advantages for optical communications with several unique features and...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
News From the Internet Congestion Control World
Aug 2009
A few months ago, the BitTorrent developers announced that the transfer of torrent data in the official client was about to switch to uTP, an application-layer congestion-control protocol using...
Provided by Telecom ParisTech
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LEDBAT: The New BitTorrent Congestion Control Protocol
Feb 2010
A few months ago, BitTorrent developers announced that the transfer of torrent data in the official client was about to switch to a new application-layer congestion-control protocol using UDP at...
Provided by Telecom ParisTech
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White Papers
Novel Multi-Granularity Optical Switching Node With Wavelength Management Pool Resources
Nov 2009
A novel multi-granularity optical switching node with wavelength management poll resource is presented, which is much more cost effective and multifunctional than the conventional architectures....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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An Effective Routing Strategy Through Impairment-Aware RWA in Transparent Optical Network
Nov 2009
In this paper, a dynamic impairment-aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) algorithm is proposed to efficiently provide signal-quality-guaranteed connections and achieve lower blocking...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Experimental Temporal and Power Misalignment Monitoring for Alloptical Ultrawideband Pulse Based on Dark RZ Pulse Generation
Nov 2009
In this paper, a novel and simple all-optical scheme for generating UWB monocycle pulses based on the nonlinear polarization rotation in an SOA is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. UWB...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Improved Scheme for Estimating T-CONT Bandwidth Demand in Status Reporting DBA for NG-PON
Nov 2009
A scheme for estimating T-CONT bandwidth demand within Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) for Next-Generation Passive Optical Network (NG-PON) is proposed and evaluated. Estimating T-CONT...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Evaluations of Physical and Optical Path Level Hierarchical Networks to Implement Optical Fast Circuit Switching
Nov 2009
The authors propose an efficient network architecture to implement optical fast circuit switching. Future bandwidth abundant services such as Ultra High Definition TeleVision (UHDTV),...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Clock Synchronization in T-MPLS Network Via PTP (IEEE 1588 V2)
Nov 2009
Clock synchronization is an essential problem faced by packet transport network. PTP (precise time protocol) can be used to solve this problem. Its feasibility has been verified by related...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Case Studies
The Prince Hotel & Residence Partners With 3Com to Become One of the First to Offer Wireless High-Speed Internet Access in Malaysia
Jan 2010
The Prince Hotel & Residence is part of the premier 5 Star Japanese hotel chain, Prince Hotels. The hotel management wanted a solution that was cost effective, and would allow the management team...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
3Com Global Services Delivers Turnkey Network Solution to Grow Award-Winning Scottish Law Firm
Jan 2010
Golds provide legal and corporate services for residential and commercial lenders, insurance companies, and consumers. Golds made a crucial strategic decision to grow the firm by focusing 90...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Case Study : Vineland School District, USA
Jan 2010
More than a decade after launching its first district-wide network, the Vineland School District, which as New Jersey's largest, spans more than 69 square miles, remains committed to providing its...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Research Laboratory Builds World-Class Data Center
Oct 2009
Located in Livermore, California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national security laboratory, with a mission to help ensure national security and apply science and technology to the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
WA Education Department and Cisco Deliver Advanced End-to-End e-Learning Solution to More Than 800 Schools and Colleges
May 2008
The Western Australian Department of Education and Training (WA DET) is responsible for providing a quality learning environment across the state. WA DET wanted to improve flow of internet traffic...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Healthcare Provider Builds Parallel PBX Voice Network
Jul 2009
Baptist Health South Florida is the largest faith-based, not-for-profit health care organization in the Southeastern United States. Baptist Health South Florida created a cost-effective network...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Information Technology and Services Firm SRA International Reduces Branch IT Costs
Jul 2008
SRA solves complex problems of global significance for clients in the national security, civil government and global health markets. SRA wanted to ensure LAN-like application performance for...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Auto Dealership Boosts Branch Efficiency
May 2010
Larry H. Miller Group wanted to slow application performance at branch locations and there was need for increased IT efficiency across data center and branch locations. The challenge was the WAN...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Service Provider Increases Scalability, Gains Competitive Edge
May 2010
Founded in 2005, SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. provides global, on-demand data center and hosting services from three data centers in Dallas, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and Washington D.C....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Avaya Case Study: Belfor
Mar 2009
BELFOR is a global recovery company that specializes in responding to insured incidents through a network of 16 response centres .BELFOR needed a reliable and scalable telephony solution that...
Provided by Avaya
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White Papers
QoS Routing in Ad Hoc Networks Using QOLSR With no Need of Explicit Reservation
Jan 2010
Multimedia applications often require guaranteed quality of service (QoS) and resource reservation, which has raised a number of challenging technical issues for routing. Authors have proposed the...
Provided by University of Paris
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White Papers
Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks With Omni Directional and Directional Antenna: A Comparative Study
Jan 2010
Several routing schemes have been proposed in the context of mobile ad hoc network. Some of them use multiple paths simultaneously by splitting the information among multitude of paths, as it may...
Provided by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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White Papers
Interference-Aware Loop-Free Routing For Mesh Networks
Jan 2010
In recent years, there has been an explosive growth in the development of mesh networks to provide cheap yet high band width Internet access to areas that does not have coverage of high-bandwidth...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
DCAR: Distributed Coding-Aware Routing in Wireless Networks
Mar 2008
The practical network coding system proposed in has two fundamental limitations like the coding opportunity is crucially dependent on the established routes; the coding structure is limited within...
Provided by Chinese University of Hong Kong
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White Papers
Better Operating System Features for Faster Network Servers
Jan 2010
Widely-used operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale Internet server applications. Their algorithms and interfaces fail to efficiently support either event-driven or...
Provided by Rice University
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White Papers
Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Sep 2007
Bluetooth is a cutting-edge technology used for implementing wireless ad-hoc networks. In order to provide an overall scheme for mobile ad-hoc networks, this paper deals with scatternet topology...
Provided by Czech Technical University
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White Papers
Routing in Overlay Multicast Networks
Jan 2010
Multicast services can be provided either as a basic network service or as an application-layer service. Higher level multicast implementations often provide more sophisticated features, and can...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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White Papers
Designing Routing Metrics for Mesh Networks
Jan 2010
Designing routing metrics is critical for performance in wireless mesh networks. The unique characteristics of mesh networks, such as static nodes and the shared nature of the wireless medium,...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
GPS Based Distributed Routing Algorithms for Wireless Networks
Jan 2010
Recently, several fully distributed (localized) GPS based routing protocols for a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) were reported in literature. They are variations of directional (DIR) routing...
Provided by University of Ottawa
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White Papers
Routing Protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Rural Areas
Jan 2009
Research on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has focused mainly on efficient routing protocol design under conditions where there are relatively large numbers of closely spaced vehicles. These...
Provided by Montana State University
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White Papers
Routing in Socially Selfish Delay Tolerant Networks
Dec 2009
Existing routing algorithms for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) assume that nodes are willing to forward packets for others. In the real world, however, most people are socially selfish; i.e., they...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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White Papers
Social Delay-Tolerant Network Routing
Jun 2009
Routing in mobile delay-tolerant networks faces new challenges such as mobility and the dynamic nature of the network. Social network information may be useful for routing since mobile nodes in...
Provided by University of St Andrews
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White Papers
Network Switch Sense
Jan 2009
Back in the early '90s, the IT industry buzzed about the convergence of voice, video and data over corporate networks. This was going to be a killer app that would revolutionize communication,...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
10 Gigabit Ethernet Switching Solutions
Apr 2008
Ethernet is the enduring success story of local area networking. Now into its third decade it continues to develop and improve with support for faster speeds, new interfaces and longer...
Provided by SMC Networks
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White Papers
Network Hubs Buffer Environmental Variation in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Nov 2008
Regulatory and developmental systems produce phenotypes that are robust to environmental and genetic variation. A gene product that normally contributes to this robustness is termed a phenotypic...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
The Economics of Network-Powered Growth
Aug 2010
This paper assesses the evidence and finds strong support in the economic literature for the notion that network technology has the potential to boost economic growth permanently, sustainably...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Using Cisco NAM Hardware in a WAAS Deployment: Deployment Guide
Apr 2010
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a powerful application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that optimizes the performance of TCP-based applications operating in a WAN...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Quorum Placement on Wide-Area Networks
Jan 2008
Content distribution networks are the dominant technology for distributing shared media on todays Internet. There are several types of content for which these systems have been proven highly...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Constrained Component Deployment in Wide-Area Networks using AI Planning Techniques
Jan 2010
Component-based models represent a dominant trend in the construction of wide-area network applications, making possible the integration of diverse functionality contained in modules distributed...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
Modeling and Taming Parallel TCP on the Wide Area Network
Jan 2010
Parallel TCP flows are broadly used in the high performance distributed computing community to enhance network throughput, particularly for large data transfers. Previous research has studied the...
Provided by Northwestern University
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White Papers
An Exploration of Wide-Area Networks
Mar 2010
Internet QoS must work. For example, many systems create interposable theory. An extensive question in complexity theory is the investigation of psychoacoustic modalities. On the other hand,...
Provided by International Institute of Technology
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White Papers
When and How to Change Quorums on Wide Area Networks
Oct 2009
In wide-area settings, unpredictable events, such as flash crowds caused by nearly instantaneous popularity of services, can cause servers that are expected to respond quickly to instead suddenly...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Effective Use of Dedicated Wide-Area Networks for High-Performance Distributed Computing
Feb 2009
Recent advances in Grid technology have made it possible to build so-called computational Grids, or simply Grids, which couple unique or rare resources that are geographically separated and span...
Provided by University of Chicago
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White Papers
Auditing Campus-wide Local Area Networks (LANs) for Virtual LAN Configurations Using a Simple Network Manager
Mar 2008
Information technology has now proliferated into small-scale enterprises and noncommercial organizations like educational institutes. These organizations often do not have elaborate network...
Provided by Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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Whitepapers
Optical Transport Networks: Current Challenges and Solutions for the Future
Oct 2008
Current backbone transport networks rely on Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM). A lightpath between routers is provided by sequences of point-to-point DWDM systems that are manually...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
The Flexible, Dynamic Optical Layer
Oct 2008
A dynamic optical network that adjusts quickly and automatically to changes in offered traffic load provides performance superior to that of a network of fixed, static optical connections only...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Multi-Layer Network Operation and Aanagement for Future Carrier Backbone Networks
Oct 2008
The authors have been developing a network virtualization technique: a network architecture technology to overlay IP networks over an optical backbone network to improve flexibility and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Allscripts
Oct 2009
Allscripts develops award-winning solutions for electronic health records, electronic prescribing, and more. Over 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and nearly 7,000 post-acute and homecare...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Wide-Area Network Acceleration for the Developing World
May 2010
Wide-Area Network (WAN) accelerators operate by compressing redundant network traffic from point-to-point communications, enabling higher effective bandwidth. Unfortunately, while network...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Routing Models for Rural Networks with Time-Varying Constraints
Jul 2008
The motivation for this work comes from the poultry industry, but can be broadened to other application areas. One problem of concern in the poultry industry is when an infected flock of birds has...
Provided by University of Arkansas
