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whitepaper Sangoma Signaling and Media Gateway (SMG): BRI (ISDN) Interface Card Brings Carrier-Grade Thinking to Your Enterprise2008-08-12
  This paper is the first in a series of white papers that will introduce and explore several mature, open source VoIP technologies that may not be well known, but are worthy of serious consideration. Over the course of the series, the paper will explore how organizations can take advantage of these emergent, reliable, and scalable technologies. This paper will focus on Sangoma's recently introduced A500 BRI card, and by doing so introduce Sangoma SMG, the Sangoma Signalling and Media Gateway.

Tags: LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Solving the Hypervisor Network I/O Bottleneck: Solarflare Virtualization Acceleration2007-10-09 Solarflare Communications
  With increased pressure on IT departments to do more with less, IT is turning to server virtualization to get the most out of their server platforms. The adoption of virtualization technology to address these business conditions in enterprise data centers has lead to improvements in scalability, manageability, and availability. Solarflare's SolarStorm 10 Gigabit vNIC controllers are built from the ground up to alleviate the I/O bottleneck in a virtualized environment and can provide up to three times the network I/O performance when compared with a non-accelerated virtualized environment. This paper highlights the improvements that SolarStorm's virtualization acceleration can provide, not only in networking I/O performance, but also in server efficiency.

Tags: Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Wake-On-LAN (WOL) Support on Dell Servers2007-10-01 Dell
  This paper provides step-by-step instructions for using Wake-On-LAN (WOL) with Dell Servers. Wake-On-LAN allows a server to be remotely powered on. Wake-On-LAN technology resides in a server's managed Network Interface Card (NIC) and/or in a LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) integrated network connection. When a WOL enabled system is placed in a power saving mode (hibernate, standby, power off, etc...), the managed NIC or LOM uses the auxiliary power source to monitor the network and receive a wake-up packet. When a wake-up packet is received, the system powers up as normal.

Tags: LAN - WAN, LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Switch Virtual Interface for Cisco Integrated Services Routers2007-09-01 Cisco Systems
  This paper provides an overview of the Switch Virtual Interface (SVI) for Cisco Integrated Services Routers. Cisco offers three types of integrated switching modules for the modular Cisco 3800, 2800, and 1800 Series Integrated Services Routers: the 16- and 36-port Cisco EtherSwitch modules, the Cisco EtherSwitch 4- and 9-port High-Speed WAN interface cards (HWICs), and the Cisco EtherSwitch service modules. In addition, the Cisco 1800 Series fixed-configuration Integrated Services Routers are integrated with an 8-port switch. The Cisco 870 and 850 Series Integrated Services Routers are integrated with a 4-port switch. The integrated switch ports for the fixed-configuration Integrated Services Routers and the switch ports on the HWICs do not natively support Layer 3 addresses or Layer 3 features.

Tags: LAN - WAN, LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Power and Cost Savings Using NetXen's 10GbE Intelligent NIC2007-07-10 NetXen
  NetXen technology applies the graphic processor concept to Ethernet. The fundamental idea is to function as a network co-processor where all the Ethernet traffic is completely managed by NetXen's Intelligent NIC so that CPU cycles are given back to the applications. NetXen's Intelligent NIC provides this functionality in multiple ways. NetXen's Intelligent NICs brings two significant benefits to the datacenter: Power reduction and 10x bandwidth improvement. With the support of LSA (Linux Sockets Acceleration) and Chimney bolted onto NetXen's Intelligent NIC, not only is bandwidth improved by 10x but also the CPU is offloaded from handling critical network bandwidth processing, thereby freeing the CPU for application performance which reduces the overall power.

Tags: Components		   
whitepaper The KillerNIC - Is It Worth It?2007-04-23 Puget Custom Computers
  In the ongoing efforts to squeeze every possible performance improvement out of their computing rig, most folks focus almost exclusively on the two heavy hitters in their system when it comes to generating Frames Per Second (FPS): CPU and video card. Is it possible that both consumers and hardware manufacturers have been overlooking an untapped area for improvement? Enter the Killer NIC from Bigfoot Labs, who has targeted their product directly at gamers by making the rather impressive claim that their network card will not only lower one's in-game lag, it will also increase the FPS.   
whitepaper 10 GbE Rising Factors Driving the Emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet2007-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  IT capacity and demand are on a collision course for the datacenter. Industry trends such as Chip Multithreading (CMT), multicore CPUs such as CoolThreads, Intel Xeon, and AMD Opteron, blade computing, and virtualization are just a few of the significant advances that have increased datacenter capacity. But the demand for IT compute and storage capabilities is expected to increase at an even faster rate. Ethernet, the staple of datacenter networking infrastructure, has kept pace with the introduction of 10 Gigabit Ethernet trunking on commodity Layer 2 switches, but until recently server Network Interface Cards (NICs) were stalled at Gigabit Ethernet speeds.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Network Management		   
whitepaper Design Alternatives for a High-Performance Self-Securing Ethernet Network Interface2007-01-26 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  This paper presents and evaluates a strategy for integrating the Snort network intrusion detection system into a high-performance programmable Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), considering the impact of several possible hardware and software design choices. While currently proposed ASIC, FPGA, and TCAM systems can match incoming string content in real-time, the system proposed also supports the stream reassembly and HTTP content transformation capabilities of Snort. This system, called LineSnort, parallelizes Snort using concurrency across TCP sessions and executes those parallel tasks on multiple low-frequency pipelined RISC processors embedded in the NIC. LineSnort additionally exploits opportunities for intra-session concurrency. The system also includes dedicated hardware for high-bandwidth data transfers and for high-performance string matching.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Intrusion - Tampering		   
whitepaper Linux Enumeration of NICs: Version 32007-01-01 Dell
  Linux naming of the hardware network interfaces may not align with BIOS and chassis labeling of the Ethernet ports. This is seen on Dell PowerEdge 1950, 1955, 2900, and 2950 servers when using a Linux 2.6 kernel-based product such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10. Solutions to align the Linux name with the expected name are presented in this paper.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper A Reconfigurable and Programmable Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card2006-12-01 Rice University
  RiceNIC is a reconfigurable and programmable Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (NIC). It is an open platform meant for research and education into network interface design. The NIC is implemented on a commercial FPGA prototyping board that includes two Xilinx FPGAs, a Gigabit Ethernet interface, a PCI interface, and both SRAM and DRAM memories. The Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA on the board also includes two embedded PowerPC processors. RiceNIC provides significant computation and storage resources that are largely unutilized when performing the basic tasks of a network interface. The remaining processing and storage resources are available to customize the behavior of RiceNIC. This capability and flexibility makes RiceNIC a valuable platform for research and education into current and future network interface architectures.

Tags: LAN - WAN		   

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