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whitepaper Telecom 2.0: Mind over matter2008-07-21 ntl:Telewest Business
  ntl:Telewest Business believes that the role of the telco is evolving. Gone are the days when it was enough to simply focus on circuits and minutes, customers now need a far higher degree of interaction and look for suppliers who will talk business solutions with them.

Tags: Fibre, Quality of Service		   
whitepaper Zen Internet Offers Successful Home Worker Solution to Peninsula Business Services2008-06-13 Zen Internet
  Peninsula Business Services Ltd provides Health, Safety, Personnel and Employment Law consultancy to a wide client base across the UK. Peninsula's Internet connectivity was proving too slow and inefficient, taking up valuable business time. Advice workers could not input customer information into the company system until the next day and were required to travel into the office. This process was therefore proving inconvenient, as it was difficult to keep customer case information up to date on the company's Intranet-based system. Zen connected Peninsula's home workers using ADSL Max broadband accounts with download speeds of up to 8Mbps, all with free static IP addresses to meet the VPN requirements.

Tags: Broadband, VPNs		   
whitepaper Extreme Networks Supports Wireless Mobility at Patient Bedside for St. Johannes Hospital2008-06-01 Extreme Networks
  St. Johannes Hospital in Troisdorf-Sieglar, Germany, with just over 400 staff members, has more than 182 beds and treats approximately 8,800 inpatients and as many outpatients each year. The Hospital Information System (HIS) was looking to create a virtually paperless hospital operations chain in addition to its existing implementation of PACS. Ideally, the intent was to have all patient information processed and stored digitally and made available to its staff whenever and wherever needed. The hospital deployed Extreme Networks for its infrastructure, with the redundancy provided by Extreme Standby Router Protocol (ESRP), a hot-standby failover mechanism for Layer 2 and Layer 3 IP networks.

Tags: Switching, TCP - IP		   
whitepaper Deploying Ethernet Access for Business Services2008-06-01 Cisco Systems
  The leading provider of telecommunications services in Switzerland, Swisscom wanted to stay ahead of the competition with best-in-market business services and enable more bandwidth for video and other services demanded by corporate customers. The challenge was to simplify the infrastructure to keep operating costs low and enable more flexible service delivery. Recognizing the need to converge networks in the future, Swisscom made the decision to build a single Carrier Ethernet infrastructure that could simultaneously deliver both Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet services with customer-managed or Swisscom-managed Customer Premise Equipment (CPE). Swisscom chose Cisco core, access, and aggregation solutions.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues		   
whitepaper New Technique for Fixing an Ethernet IPv6 Address Using the Fedoracore Operating System2008-05-12 Association for Computing Machinery
  During the course to deploy Ipv6, it was found that several critical implementation and operational issues which distract user and possibly prevent wide deployment of Ipv6. Among the problems it is noticed stateless IP autoconfiguration, which provides for each nodes connected to the network an IP address. However, two nodes may have the same address, and a network conflict appears. In this case a manual IP address, which depends on restarting Network Interface Card, is required. This paper presents a technique that, independently of rebooting NIC, maintain the IP address fix. Validation is done by using Fedoracore Operating System.

Tags: IP Technologies		   
whitepaper Cisco Nexus 5000 and Emulex LP210002008-05-01 Cisco Systems
  Data Center managers are challenged to keep pace with continuous growth while managing capital, operational and facilities costs. Organizations have turned to server virtualization as a means of reigning in the costs by consolidating applications on virtual servers. Increases in SAN attachment have gone hand in hand. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offers the framework for implementing a Unified Fabric as a way to get beyond today's cost and complexity challenges. Cisco and Emulex have worked collaboratively on both standards and products that will deliver on the promise of a Unified Fabric reducing the total cost of ownership; offering investment protection of existing severs, networks, storage, and facilities; enhancing business agility; and enabling higher levels of operational continuity; while offering alignment with existing operational domains.

Tags: SANs, Fibre		   
whitepaper Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution2008-05-01 Cisco Systems
  Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency consolidated networks that enable data center scalability and improve manageability while controlling IT costs. Data centers typically run multiple separate networks, including an Ethernet network for client-to-server and server-to-server communications and a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN). To support various types of networks, data centers use separate redundant interface modules for each network: Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) and Fibre Channel interfaces in their servers, and redundant pairs of switches at each layer in the network architecture. Use of parallel infrastructures increases capital costs, makes data center management more difficult, and diminishes business flexibility.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper American Fiber Systems Case Study: J.R. Simplot Company2008-05-01 American Fiber Systems
  Based in Boise, Idaho, the J.R. Simplot Company is one of the largest privately held companies in the world. Like many companies in their industry, Simplot managed a decentralized telecom network made up of various T1s, DS3s and OC3s. Information was backed-up and stored using the time-consuming and costly magnetic tapes. Network Technology Manager and his team quickly recognized the need to upgrade their network. Following the diligent three-month RFP process, Network Technology Manager and their team decided to partner with AFS once again. The new solution includes an Ethernet ring between four main sites. AFS also displaced previous T1s and DS3s for inter-office voice and connectivity.

Tags: Network Administration		   
whitepaper Converging SAN and LAN Infrastructure With Fibre Channel Over Ethernet for Efficient, Cost-Effective Data Centers2008-04-22 Cisco Systems
  Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an emerging data transport technology that simplifies the network fabric by converging both Storage Area Network (SAN) and LAN connectivity onto a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet link. As the use of SANs in the data center continues to grow, FCoE can decrease the cost of connecting servers to the SAN, while also preserving the existing management infrastructure and reducing overall power consumption. By encapsulating Fibre Channel payloads in Ethernet frames, FCoE uses a switch that supports the technology, such as Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches, to connect transparently to existing environments. As a result, organizations can simplify their infrastructures, with fewer server network interfaces, reduced cabling infrastructure, and a unified switching architecture.

Tags: SANs		   
whitepaper ASMi-54 G.SHDSL.bis Modem Extends High-Speed Network Over Existing Infrastructure2008-04-22 RAD Data Communications
  Lattelecom, Latvia's leading provider of communications services and solutions, was selected as the integrator for a state-sponsored project to bring the Internet to public libraries throughout Latvia. The company wanted to use existing copper infrastructure to deliver high-speed data services. Lattelecom deployed RAD's ASMi-54 G.SHDSL.bis Ethernet modem which extends Ethernet over copper pairs, offering cost-effective delivery of high bandwidth to Last Mile customers.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues