Femtocell technology has been hailed as an alternative to deliver the advantages of fixed mobile convergence. Poised for commercial launches by Telcos around the world in 2009, we take a closer look at this nascent new wireless mobile technology.
On the heels of Comcast’s recent decision to enforce a 250 GB bandwidth limit on residential customers, network administrators may wonder what this means for telecommuters. While a remote site’s network connectivity would be a business category plan, most telecommuters use the residential class service for price reasons or service availability. What is unclear within […]
A leading security guru is making the rounds trying to increase awareness of wireless security, or rather the severe lack of such security. In a recent tour of San Francisco, Oakland, and Palo Alto, he discovered over 2600 networks, nearly a third of which were not using any encryption at all. This effort did not […]
E-book readers allow you to take hundreds of books and documents along with you in a device that’s not much bigger than your smart phone. Michael Kassner will look at the technology behind these products and give some opinions about two of the e-book readers using a road warrior’s perspective.
As time-sensitive applications like VoIP and telepresence become more commonplace, there will be increased pressure on network professionals to understand signal integrity and how to maximize it.
This tutorial by George Ou and Justin James shows you how to set up an advanced SOHO configuration for the Cisco 851W router.
Video conferencing accounted for 28 percent of all Skype calls last year. Michael Kassner discusses why Skype should be considered a telepresence platform and how the multimedia technology of Skype has improved.