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Byline: David Linthicum Let's say there's a five-year-old midsize biotech company. We'll call it MidCo, and they specialize in the automated testing of blood and tissue samples. The bottom line [...]

This IMS you hear so much about these days originated as part of a set of standards for 3G mobile telephones initiated in 1999 by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project [...]

New control network architecture including use of integrated circuits that will be required by automotive industry to meet future needs is discussed.

Networks are starting to become a critical part of many industrial installations. Production equipment increasingly incorporates diagnostics that are available over an Ethernet, and ever more factory gear is not [...]

Service oriented architectures (SOAs) are all the rage--at least conceptually. Enterprises are attracted to the idea that SOAs can improve business process and workflow control, as well as the flexibility [...]

FOR GEORGE HANRAHAN, the choice was clear. The vice president and CIO of Western United Life Assurance (WULA; Spokane, Wash.; $1.7 billion in assets) was saddled with an obsolete, VAX-based […]

Local Area Networks (LANs) have been taken over by Gigabit switching. Two of the key issues that must be addressed include delivering guaranteed QOS in Layer 2 switched environments and extending Ethernet over the Wide Area Network (WAN). Internet Protocol (IP) is increasingly being touted as the interface that will most likely act as the bridge between the future WANs and the high-capacity switched LANs. IP will ensure that there will be no speed mismatches and other problems regarding transmission., GigE is taking over the backbone, but improvements are still needed in QOS and WAN interfaces. By the time you read this, the bar in gigabit switching will likely have [...]

'Fabless Semi' firms are building network functions into silicon, paving the way for low-cost gear. In a sunny office tucked away in Framingham, Mass., a small group of engineers is […]

After spending gobs of time and money straining to build enterprise networks, many organizations across the globe are still struggling to get their digital conduits in sync with ever-shifting business […]

TOO MANY OF OUR VENDORS CLING TO CLOSED ARCHITECTURES AND WON'T ALLOW CUSTOMIZED TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS. BUT WE HAVE SCSA, MVIP, EXCEL, DIANATEL, APPLE, MICROSOFT, NOVELL, INTEL AND GENERAL MAGIC. AND […]

The wave of interest in service oriented architectures (SOA) has created, not surprisingly, a wave of speculation about the changes SOA might bring to enterprise networks. Of particular concern to [...]

A new network is emerging for delivering media-rich and bandwidth-hungry content, applications, and services. Traditional SONET/SDH architectures, developed for the narrowband world of a generation ago, are overloaded. Such practices [...]

Our world is full of myths, half-truths, and shams--many of them promulgated via the Internet. With access to the far reaches of the globe at billions of fingertips, people can [...]

In the network arena, the hot news for 1996 was IP switching from Ipsilon Networks Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.). Simply explained, IP switching provides a means to speed IP packet […]

With ever more devices needing greater throughput for video and voice content, today's wireless hub-and-spoke network architecture is showing its age. What's needed is a wireless LAN (WLAN) solution capable [...]

Byline: Jeff Caruso This will be the last Network Architecture newsletter written by me. But it will not be the last one you receive. After more than 10 years of [...]

An integrated broadband network would offer a dazzling array of new services for consumers. Such a network would provide switched, two-way capabilities for voice, data and video and offer both […]

The market-engineered switch of the future A manufacturer's laboratory is not the place to catch a glimpse of the next generation of network systems. Although engineers will build the new […]

Byline: Ed Gubbins TXP introduced a new optical network terminal (ONT) architecture today aimed at easing some of the power-related challenges of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) installation. But the Texas-based vendor isn't [...]

Lynelle McKay, who became senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Computing Systems Group at Freescale Semiconductor Inc. late last year, oversees a unit that plays in […]

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Many modern large-scale applications can be characterized by three attributes: they need to gather and distribute data in real-time, the amount [...]

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Typical architectures for capturing time data on signals of interest contain commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) receivers, servers and host processing components. These [...]

Cliff Sarancliff.saran@rbi.co.ukCisco's acquisition of 802.1x supplier Meetinghouse is likely to weaken the Trusted Computing Group's Trusted Network Connect initiative to provide an open architecture for network access control, analyst firm […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers has a reputation for making bold statements. Back in 1998, he predicted networks of the future would involve the convergence of voice, video, data, and […]

I suppose it's a positive thing that I find myself writing again about the IP multimedia subsystem architecture because it means that there has been a new industry development concerning [...]