Will WiMAX Become WiMedium?
WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access wireless
broadband standard, has been looked to as the enabling agent for
4G roaming and mobile networks. In all the ballyhoo of the last
few years, though, other technologies have been creeping up and
may now be poised to grab the 4G crown for themselves. (read
more)
Do You Need a Content Delivery Network?
The infrastructure to deliver content via the Internet has a way
of growing geometrically. There was a time when a single PC and
a few incoming telephone lines with modems were all you needed
to create, maintain and operate an online Web service. Now you're
wondering how you're going to afford the capital equipment, bandwidth
and staff to deliver high definition video feeds coast-to-coast.
Perhaps the most reasonable solution is to turn the job over to
a content delivery network. (read
more)
Advantages of Storage as a Service
One result of the availability of reasonably priced high bandwidth
Wide Area Networks is the emergence of just about anything as
a "service." Before the days of universal connectivity,
mainframe computers were centralized and isolated devices buried
in the corporate infrastructure. PCs were stand-alone productivity
devices with their own application packages and hard drive storage.
But that model is starting to fade as virtualization changes our
perceptions on where computing resources need to be located. (read
more)
Bandwidth Deals for MSPs
Management Service Providers, MSPs, can increase their value added
to their clients by expanding the information technology services
that they provide to include finding better deals on WAN bandwidth.
Few companies realize how much the telecommunications services
marketplace has changed over the last few years and the range
of lower cost options available to them. (read
more)
Green Solution For Old Cell Phones
Are you a reluctant cell phone collector? Most people have a few
models in the basement or desk drawer. They all have one thing
in common. They don't work anymore. (read
more)
Take Your Office PC With You
Road warriors and telecommuters have their trusty notebook computers
ready to do business. But what happens when you discover, to your
horror, that the files you need are still back on the office desktop
PC and nowhere else? Do you live without or get in the car and
make that long drive back. Oh, you've just flown to the opposite
coast? I guess it's live without. Or is it? (read
more)