bandwidth

Will There Be Enough Bandwidth and How Much Will It Cost?

Joe Habraken — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:32:34 -0400

With the price of gasoline sky rocketing, I would imagine that many IT and "info" workers would opt to telecommute as much as possible in the coming months, particularly this summer. Having written quite a bit about VPNs over the last couple of years including Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 VPN server capabilities in my latest book, I have always been partial to VPN connections to secure networks as a remote network access strategy rather than dial-up schemes that require a modem pool. The question is: will an increase use of Internet bandwidth eventually lead to increase bandwidth costs and a tiered access and delivery system?

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What is WAN (Metro) Ethernet?

BandwidthSeek.Net — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:43:37 -0400

Metro Ethernet is the use of telco carrier-supported Ethernet technology in metropolitan area networks (MANs) or Wide Area Networks (WANs) vs. using Ethernet technology for just a Local Area Network (LAN), the most widely used application for the Ethernet protocol. Because it is typically a collective endeavor with numerous financial contributors, Metro Ethernet offers cost-effectiveness, reliability, scalability and bandwidth management superior to most proprietary networks. Metro Ethernet can connect businesses LANs and individual end users to a WAN or to the Internet. Corporations, academic institutions and government agencies in large cities can use Metro Ethernet to connect branch campuses or offices to an intranet.

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Whose bandwidth is being given away?

Paul McNamara — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:59:12 -0500

Security guru Bruce Schneier is certain to kick up a lively discussion today with his essay in Wired extolling the virtues of wide-open home wireless networks.

I'm not going to quibble with him on the security aspects of unprotected Wi-Fi, but I will take exception on another point in a moment. First, Schneier writes:

Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people - and attracts the most criticism - is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password. There's no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet.

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RE: VBrick video appliance saves WAN bandwidth

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:53:00 -0400

You would anyway be able to accomplish this by having a downstream videostreaming server at the branch office.

Alacritech's TCP-offload adapters and Linux?

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:50:24 -0400

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