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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 […]

There is so much for students and teachers to do educationally through the Internet - the giant telecommunications 'network of networks' linking computers in every continent - that giving introductory […]

Putting cross-connect functionality directly on the Co switch can streamline the facility infrastructure and position the network for improved provisiong of special services It hardly takes a rocket scientist to […]

The Technology Voice over IP is really a variety of services. The vision of voice communications carried over a packet-switched data network is hypnotic, promising compelling services such as a […]

Angle of arrival (AOA): A system that calculates the angles at which a signal arrives at two base stations from a handset, using triangulation to find location. AOA works poorly […]

IP phones piggyback on the USPS inspector general's data network to eliminate long-distance costs for manager Bob Duffy. The Postal Service inspector general's office is bundling voice and data traffic […]

BUILDING A VOICE-OVER-PACKET SYSTEM USED TO BE A COMPLEX PROCESS OF INTEGRATING SEVERAL COMPONENTS ND PERHAPS DESIGNING ONE OR TWO OF THEM YOURSELF. TODAY'S INTEGRATED AND SOFTWARE SUITES MAKE THE [...]

A pan-European network, announced in late June, is billed by the parent company, Interoute Telecommunications, as the first network able to support petabit (1000 Tbits/sec) capacity upon completion. The i-21 [...]

Nine Veterans Affairs Department medical centers in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are jointly making a quantum jump from dumb terminals to a client-server WAN environment. They will get graphical […]

Computers have been changing the way all companies do business for some time now. However, nowhere has their impact been greater than among manufacturers. In most plants, timely information is [...]

The Alascon communications network handles over 48 million telephone calls a year, and provides such services as WATS, telgerams, telex, marine radio, television and dedicated as well as dial-up data [...]

Virtually (temporarily) united to exploit a worldwide business opportunity, a consortium of companies manufacture products together none could build alone. High-performance computer networks allow companies to collaborate electronically. Products that […]

To handle the increased data traffic generated by the rapid proliferation of end-user systems, the Air Force has embarked on a $1 billion overhaul of its base-level infrastructure. The Combat […]

One of the disadvantages of being offered a 'mission impossible' in IT is that it does not come with the getout clause - 'should you choose to accept this mission...'. […]

Most IS managers asked to take a group of 70 volunteers and set up a more than 7,000-node network using 10BaseT, 100BaseT, 100VG-AnyLAN, FDDI and ATM in a strange location […]

By fielding an interim 10-node asynchronous transfer mode back-bone, the Defense Department expects to cut usage fees for its unclassified global data network by as much as 29 percent beginning […]

Government enterprise networking isn't what it used to be. The 1980s was the era of X.25 packet switching networks like the global Defense Data Network (DDN). For many agenies, the […]

As the first wave of a plan to build a network linking all its offices, the Naval Air Systems Command has wired six office buildings in Arlington, Va. Under the […]

In the highly competitive banking industry, network performance has become a key to winning and retaining customers. For Bluebonnet Savings Bank FSB, rapid design and deployment of a high-performance network […]

The National Information Infrastructure (NII) will be seen as a web of communications networks, computers, data bases, and new technologies that will carry information to Americans wherever they reside. By […]

Now that we're all being asked to meander down the national data superhighway, it's time we became familiar with the services it will offer travelers, as well as where it […]

Citibank Plaza, Hong Kong, the new home of Citibank regional headquarters, brings something special to the already spectacular Kowloon skyline. Here, where new office towers vie for the privilege of […]

The National Science Foundation's recent draft solicitation to upgrade the NSFnet to a 155-megabit/sec backbone has drawn some unusually strong criticism. Officials at the Energy Department and NASA intimated that […]

Network provides telemedicine services to outlying health care facilities Veterans Affairs Department hospitals and clinics in the Chicago area have brought up the department's first regional Synchronous Optical Network ring […]

President Clinton has set a goal that every classroom should be 'wired up' to the Internet by the year 2003, with every student in the U.S. school system computer literate […]

The Air Force Space Command is building its first asynchronous transfer mode network to track rockets it launches at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The ATM network is part of the Range […]

Rail transportation giant CSX rides the Java train to share information with customers Have Java-based intranet applications arrived at the point where they are rugged enough to carry the freight […]

The National Science Foundation is ratcheting up the speed and scope of its NSFnet very-high-speed Backbone Network Service. or vBNS. The network. billed as the fastest of its scale today, […]

One of the first columns I wrote for PC Week -- back in the spring of 1992 -- was a rant on the lack of advanced print services. It's a […]

National Science Foundation gets green light to triple its network speed The National Science Foundation last month got the go-ahead to triple its NSFnet backbone speed to 155 megabits/sec. The […]

Dayton, Ohio--To set the stage for a global Defense Department network, the Defense Information Systems Agency has begun bundling DOD's T1 circuits into a T3 line. The pilot effort is […]

Agency plans to upgrade NSFnet backbone system to rate of 155 megabits/sec With the Internet's explosion in use, the National Science Foundation no longer can bear the burden of acting […]

ATLANTA -- The five pilot sites for the Joint Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support system have been tapped as the likely first users of Defense's plan for a departmentwide data […]

The Pentagon soon plans to move forward with the development of the Defense Research and Engineering Network with the release of a request for proposals. DREN will serve as a […]

Football is big business, and the Super Bowl is the biggest of the big. The National Football League, a PC Week Corporate Lab Partner, spent two weeks building a miniature […]

Communications and information systems are part of Aer Lingus' competitive strategy. Communications links are the key to delivery of a wide variety of airline services from inquiries and reservations at […]