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June 29, 2010  9:27 AM

Verizon Completes 100Gbps Ethernet Trial



Posted by: Matt Mather
Alcatel-Lucent, Networking, News

In conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent, Verizon has completed an extremely exciting field trial carrying 100Gbps Ethernet traffic on a metropolitan ethernet infrastructure. Using Alcatel-Lucent equipment deployed...

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June 28, 2010  10:52 AM

Cisco Live From The Comfort Of Your Sofa!



Posted by: Matt Mather
Cisco, Free, Networking, News

I have always been a big fan of Cisco Networkers or Cisco Live as it is now. The sessions are always of a very high standard and I have had the chance over the years to meet some of the engineers who have written the books I am currently reading or have read in the past. You also get to meet and...

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June 24, 2010  8:32 AM

Free Public WiFi? Nah!!



Posted by: Matt Mather
Free, Internet, Networking, Public, Wi-Fi

Whilst reading about the free public WI-FI services in Poland, covered in my last post, I came across this little beauty. To be fair its not really ground breaking news and it has been known about for a while now but considering I missed this little snippet I thought you might have done too and it...

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June 24, 2010  8:17 AM

Another City Go Wireless, Just Not Mine



Posted by: Matt Mather
Cisco, Free, Public, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Cisco, together with BT and the municipality of Pruszkow, launched the Wireless City initiative in Pruszkow, a town near Warsaw, the Polish capital. In itself not that ground breaking a subject, many other cities have sited such technology but in my beloved Manchester, what is considered to be a...

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June 9, 2010  6:58 AM

Tech-Tip #2 – Restoring The Configuration Is Never Enough



Posted by: Matt Mather
Cisco, IOS, Tech-Tip

We've all had the problem when one of our routers or switches stops doing it's job, monitoring stations light up like a Christmas tree and alarms bells start to ring.....arghh, DEFCON 1. In my time I have seen devices that have uptimes in years and to be fair to the hardware that's more the norm...

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June 3, 2010  12:22 PM

IP Traffic Set To Quadruple By 2014



Posted by: Matt Mather
3DTV, Broadband, File Sharing, Internet, IP, IPTV, Video

Today Cisco announced the results of the annual VNI (Visual Network Index) forecast covering 2009 to 2014. The report projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte, by 2014.  This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the...

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June 2, 2010  12:59 PM

Digital Economy Act Farce, An Introduction



Posted by: Matt Mather
Digital Economy, File Sharing, Internet

I hope this topic doesn't become too tiresome for readers of my blog but there is a real danger it could be and of that I am well aware, I will promise though that I will try not to devote too much time to this subject and risk alienating what I hope is a growing audience. This, being the Act,...

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