IPTV: ready to takeoff.(Internet Protocol Television)(Brief Article)

Depending on the size and needs of your business, an intranet can consist of little more than email service and file sharing or can include full-fledged document management and videoconferencing. Regardless, all intranets are made up of the same basic parts. Read here for our overview of the six basic ......

How exactly does a LAN differ from a WAN? Learn more about this basic network and the hardware and software that are used to create and administer it.

Inderscience Publishers (Olney, UK), a producer of international academic, scientific and professional journals, has launched "International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology" (IJIPT) and "International Journal of Business Information Systems" (IJBIS). Both will be published quarterly and an annual subscription costs $450 for either title. Site licenses for the electronic editions ......

By looking at switching equipment, you'd never know that the trend in the communications and networking world is toward TCP/IP (Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). Once packetized data enters a line card and passes through a traffic-manager ASIC or NPU (network-processing unit), it almost universally emerges onto the backplane as fixed-length ......

Green Hills Software has upgraded its µ-velosity RTOS (real-time operating system) to include support for a PC-compatible file system, a wear-leveling and fault-tolerant flash-device manager, a USB 1.1- and 2.0-device-class framework, and the GHNet TCP/IP (Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) networking suite. The µ-File file system supports MS/DOS and flash-file formats, ......

The desire and need to be connected continues to grow—and gain complexity—as automation and control engineers become more heavily involved in networking at all levels. In particular, Ethernet and industrial Ethernet are finding their way onto the plant floor and into original equipment manufacturers’ (OEM) offerings with increasing frequency as ......

Avaya Inc. recently announced the U.S. availability of its Internet Protocol (IP) solution for small and mid-sized enterprises. The solution, Avaya IP Office, was designed to bring the sophistication of big-business voice and data communications to small and mid-sized enterprises at an affordable price. The Avaya IP Office is part ......

One of my regular blogging and reporting beats concerns IP Telephony. For those of you who don't know, that entails making phone calls over the Internet. In the case studies I write about for Von (Voice over the Internet) magazine , I often speak to companies asking about what quantifiable ......

Menus and Buttons and Links, Oh My! (Part 2) ......