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- IP Network
- A network that uses the IP protocol, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. IP has become the global standard for networking, which includes the entire Internet, private...
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- ISDN Q-Interface Signaling Protocol Q.931 Tunneling Over the IP Network: Reduce the Cost of Private Telephony Networks
- Private Branch eXchanges PBXs are crucial communication components in any organization. As an organization grows and expands to multiple locations, it needs to establish multiple PBXs to keep the locations connected. The primary challenge in operating these multiple PBXs is to get them to work as a single entity so...
- Tags: Network, IP, PBX, ISDN, IP Network, Telephony, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications
- White papers 2008-04-01
- QoS Bandwidth Management
- As Voice over IP VoIP emerges as the future of voice communications, questions remain about its quality and security. Put simply, the actual capacity of an IP network to carry voice is poorly defined and not well understood. Congestion, packet loss and delays in an IP network can adversely affect...
- Tags: QoS, Network, IP, IP Network, Industry IDS, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-02-12
- University Uses Robust IP Network to Deliver Advanced Teaching and Learning Tools
- To sustain the quality of its education, Ajman University of Science & Technology in the UAE believes in continual evolution of its teaching and learning practices. Ajman University of Science & Technology wanted to implement advanced teaching and learning tools. A highly resilient Gigabit Ethernet IP network, based on the...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., IP, IP Network, Tool, Nortel VPN Router 2700, Nortel Application Switch 3408, Networking, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2008-01-15
- Quality of Service Routing in IP Networks
- Multimedia applications such as video-conferencing, telemedicine, HDTV etc. have very stringent Quality of Service QoS demands and require a connection oriented service. For these applications, a path satisfying their requirements in terms of bandwidth, delay, buffer etc. needs to be found. As conventional IP routing is based only on hop...
- Tags: QoS, Network, IP, IP Network
- White papers 2008-01-01
- A Multiconstrained QoS Aware Scheduler for Class-Based IP Networks
- This paper presents a modular scheduler with powerful semantics able to differentiate simultaneously multiple QoS metrics in class-based IP networks. In opposition to traditional scheduling mechanisms, this scheduler encompasses rate, loss and delay differentiation capabilities in a flexible way. This behaviour stems from new relative and mixed differentiation models able...
- Tags: QoS, Network, IP, IP Network, University Of Minho, Networking, VOIP, Telecommunications
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Efficiently Monitoring Bandwidth and Latency in IP Networks
- Effective monitoring of network utilization and performance indicators is a key enabling technology for proactive and reactive resource management, flexible accounting, and intelligent planning in next-generation IP networks. This paper addresses the challenging problem of efficiently monitoring bandwidth utilization and path latencies in an IP data network. Unlike earlier approaches,...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Latency, Network, Monitoring, Kent State University, IP, IP Network, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- How Cisco IT Deploys Closed-Circuit TV Cameras Over the Secure IP Network
- Cisco uses video surveillance to help keep its work environment secure. Two years ago, Cisco used a combination of cameras and Video Cassette Recorders VCRs to monitor building entrances and other high-security locations on its campuses. Managing the VCRs, coaxial cabling, and tapes was labor intensive and prone to human...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, IP, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Network, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Case studies 2007-12-21
- Cisco Systems IP Network-Centric Video Surveillance
- Video surveillance has been a key component of many organization's safety and security group for decades. As an application, video surveillance has demonstrated its value and benefits countless times by providing real-time monitoring of a facility's environment, people, and assets and recording events for subsequent investigation, proof of compliance /...
- Tags: Video Surveillance, Network, Monitoring, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Network, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- White papers 2007-12-01
- How Cisco IT Migrated High-Volume Linksys Contact Center to IP Network
- When Cisco Systems acquired Irvine, California-based Linksys Group, Inc. in mid-2003, Cisco IT acquired an unprecedented challenge: integrating a contact center whose volume surpassed that of the other 60 Cisco contact centers combined. Linksys needed a scalable call center solution that also would drive operational efficiencies over the long term....
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Contact Center, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Network, Linksys Inc., Call Centers, It Operations
- Case studies 2007-11-19
- Master the fundamentals of audio and video conferencing over IP networks
- As voice over IP VoIP technology becomes mainstream, the conferencing and collaboration markets are following its lead. Enterprise networks are deploying new conferencing technology using IP networks, and Internet service providers ISP are hosting new services.Receive an overview of the various types of voice and video conferences along with the...
- Tags: Audio, Network, Video Conferencing, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Network, Chapter Coverage, Telecommunications, Networking
- Book chapters 2007-10-24
- Specifying Cables and Connectors for Industrial Ethernet/IP Networks
- This white paper is arranged to help the user select cabling based on the, application, the environmental conditions and mechanical requirements. It is true that any Category 5 or higher cable will support 10/100BaseT traffic. It is not true that a Category 5 cabling will provide the level of performance...
- Tags: Ethernet, Network, Rockwell Automation Inc., IP, IP Network, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-09-10
- Application Visualization, Control, and Delivery of Services With Cisco Application-Oriented Networking
- IP networks have transported traffic without regard to the content they are carrying. But with the explosion in next-generation services that rely on an IP network for access and delivery, service providers see an opportunity to gain new revenue sources based on their unique position as providers of both services...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Network, Networking
- White papers 2007-08-01
- IP Network Helps Regional Center of the East Bay Serve Californians With Disabilities
- The RCEB is a private, non-profit corporation under contract with the California Department of Developmental Services. As RCEB grew, officials decided to expand to two new sites. Outfitting the new locations for business presented an opportunity to centralize database functionality and improve electronic record-keeping, making it easier for staff to...
- Tags: Network, AT&T Corp., IP, IP Network, Disability, RCEB, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2007-06-06
- IP Network Helps Virgin Megastores Enhance the Retail Experience
- Like other music and entertainment retailers, Virgin Megastores is endeavoring to cope with the decline in music sales across the industry; customers are not purchasing as many CDs and DVDs as previously. As a result the Megastores are challenged to operate as efficiently as possible and to develop new strategies...
- Tags: Network, AT&T Corp., IP, IP Network, Virgin Megastores, Network Technology, Networking, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2007-05-23
- Finding Elephant Flows for Optical Networks
- Optical networks are fast and reliable networks that enable, amongst others, dedicated light paths to be established for elephant IP flows. Elephant IP flows are characterized by being small in number, but long in time and high in traffic volume. Moving these flows from the general IP network to dedicated...
- Tags: Optical Network, Elephant, Network, IP, IP Network, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2007-04-30
- Technical White Paper for IP Network Performance Manager
- IP network performance manager helps the operators monitor the network resources utilization and network operation performance, discover possible problems on the network, provide data support tool for market planning, introduce test point, path, link and device as IP network monitoring object, and fulfill the IP network performance management through the...
- Tags: Network, IP, IP Network, Networking, VOIP, Telecommunications, Network Technology
- White papers 2007-01-19
- Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Peer-to-Peer Applications on Traffic in Commercial IP Networks
- To evaluate the impact of peer-to-peer applications on traffic in wide area networks, the paper analyzes measurements from a high speed IP backbone link carrying TCP traffic towards several ADSL areas. The first observations are that the prevalent part of traffic is due to peer-to-peer applications (almost 80% of total...
- Tags: Network, P2P, Traffic, IP, IP Network, Analysis, Peer-to-peer Application, Peer To Peer (P2P), Tcp/Ip, Networking, Internet
- White papers 2007-01-01
- TFMC: A TCP-Friendly Multiplexing Control Scheme for VoIP Flow Transmission
- This paper investigates the performance limitations in the case of a large number of long distance voice over IP calls originating from different sources and transported through a best-effort IP network. The paper focuses on the potentially negative effects of protocol header overhead, which is twice the voice payload generated...
- Tags: VoIP, Performance, Network, Computer Science, IP, TCP, IP Network, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Scalable Session Border Control Capabilities for Service Provider Networks
- Voice over IP VoIP, video streaming, instant messaging, multimedia conferencing, and interactive gaming are just some of the real-time, IP-based applications enjoying rapid growth in today's competitive communications market. Service providers are now finding it efficient and economical to directly interconnect their IP networks to both customer and other service...
- Tags: Multimedia, Network, Session Border Controller, IP, Service Provider, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Network, Business Services, Networking, Telecommunications
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Bluetooth PAN and External IP Networks
- This paper discusses how ad-hoc Personal Area Network PAN based on Bluetooth technology may connect to external networks. The paper assumes that the Bluetooth network piconet is formed by the automatic SAPIFO procedure, that one or more piconet devices have access to external networks, and that IPv4 is used for...
- Tags: Network, IP, IP Network, Bluetooth, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless
- White papers 2006-11-29
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