Our WAN and service provider e-mail news alert.
Riverbed upgrades boost big WAN transfers, 10/22/07: Riverbed Technology is announcing at Interop New York software and hardware upgrades that are focused on optimizing traffic between data centers.
Juniper shrinking SSL traffic for the WAN, 10/22/07: Juniper Networks’ WAN acceleration gear will soon support optimizing SSL traffic, making better use of corporate bandwidth by reducing the amount of bits it takes to transmit SSL traffic across wide-area links.
Buzzblog: Unlimited gall to cost Verizon $1 million: Unlimited really means unlimited, even in advertising. So says the New York State Attorney General’s Office in squeezing a $1 million settlement out of Verizon Wireless for disconnecting 13,000 of its customers who had the temerity to believe that the unlimited service they were promised came with unlimited service. Verizon’s statement explaining the settlement is a gem, too.
More broadband regulation may be needed, 10/19/07: Competition may not fix problems with broadband speed and cost in the U.S., because of the high cost of entry into the market, the leader of a technology think tank said Friday.ews/2007/102207-hp-taiwan-company-show-off-wimax.html”>HP, Taiwan company show-off WiMAX hospital station, 10/22/07: HP and Taiwanese WiMAX service provider Global Mobile Monday showed off a mobile WiMAX station for use in hospitals, complete with a laptop PC, monitor and other gear.
Study places value on sensitive data stored in laptops, 10/19/07: Most travelers carry little or no business information on their laptops, but the ones who do store an average of $525,000 worth of sensitive data, according to a survey contracted by iBahn, a provider of secure broadband services to some 2,100 hotels and conference centers in 22 countries.
Taiwan inks WiMAX pacts with Alcatel, Sprint, others, 10/22/07: The Taiwanese government added several companies to a growing list of WiMAX wireless broadband technology partners on Monday, including Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sprint Nextel.
HP, Taiwan company show-off WiMAX hospital station, 10/22/07: HP and Taiwanese WiMAX service provider Global Mobile Monday showed off a mobile WiMAX station for use in hospitals, complete with a laptop PC, monitor and other gear.
AT&T unsure about bidding in 700MHz auction, 10/19/07: AT&T hasn’t decided whether it will bid for the highly desirable 700MHz band because it doesn’t know if it can build a profitable business given the open-access rules set for the wireless spectrum by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July.
WiMAX counts as 3G, ITU says, 10/19/07: WiMAX earned an important seal of approval on Thursday when the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union certified it as a 3G mobile data technology.
RIPE meeting: Jeff Doyle reporting from the RIP 55 IP conference in Amsterdam focused on policy and management.
