Almost seven of 10 households in the United States subscribe to broadband service while 68% of American households used broadband Internet in 2010, up from 64% in 2009 and only 3% of households still rely on dial-up access to the Internet in 2010, down from 5 percent in 2009.Those were but a few of the...
ORLANDO -- If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will impact your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization and move to other issues such as social media influence, energy issues and flat networks to name a few.
NASA this week rolled out a video game that lets would-be network executives design and build a giant virtual ground and space communications system that would keep astronauts in orbit and scientists on the ground in touch.
The US government and the National Science Foundation have announced a plan they say will go a long way toward building applications that can take advantage of ultrafast broadband networks.
NASA this week said it was looking to build an ambitious Internet-like network that will support solar system-wide communication and navigation services.
There was likely a pretty big sigh of relief at NASA's Ames Research Center this week as the group' star satellite Kepler, recovered from a glitch that took it offline for 144 hours.
There's no room for bad communications in space and NASA this week signed said it would add a a couple of its largest antennas to let it better communicate with interplanetary flight missions.
Looking to significantly reduce weight, improve on-board communications and make it easier to upgrade avionics, the US military is developing prototype photonic gear for use in all aircraft.
It seems that NASA CIO Linda Cureton has a pretty good sense of humor. On her NASA blog over the weekend she sent a letter to Santa about what she'd like to get for Christmas. While she'd obviously like to get better networking gear, I found shower cap item a little disturbing.
The response become a test market for Google's planned high-speed broadband network has been overwhelming, so much so the company today said it would delay awarding the system until 2011.According to a post in its website, Google said 1,100 communities and 194,000 individuals responded to its proposal....
The US Department of Energy today spent $30.4 million on cybersecurity projects it says will go a long way towards addressing the nation's electric grid cybersecurity issues.
The National Science Foundation this week said it spread $20 million across 17 universities or state education groups to enhance broadband access and bolster Internet connectivity for academic research at schools.
One would guess that when its designers saw their first B-52 fly in 1954, they never envisioned nor worried about it being part of network centric warfare. They might not have guessed the B-52 woul
Looking to be a one-stop-shop for network science research, Raytheon BBN Technologies this week was awarded an $81 million contract by the Army Research Laboratory to build what the company, which is involved in myriad network research projects for the military, called the largest co
BBN said this week it would give out $11.5 million worth of National Science Foundation grants to 33 research teams to help develop technology for the futuristic network infrastructure project known as GENI.
If it is true that as Gartner says the US will add over 27 million new broadband customers in the next four year, service providers and the FCC need to address a whole host of issues from pricing to services lest there be mass confusion and tons of consumer complaints.
BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically...
Ethernet continues to go places its inventors probably never imagined. This week GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms got a $645,000 contract to supply a custom version of its Gigabit Ethernet switch to rumble around inside the US Army's Abrams tank.
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