Quantum cryptography, or Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), leverages the mysterious physics of the ultra-small world to provide absolutely secure communication. Essentially, two parties produce and share a random bit string known...
Ethernet is vying with IP for the title of "most popular network protocol." Just as IP and the ARPAnet were the "parents" of the Internet, ALOHA and ALOHAnet were the progenitors of LAN technology such as Ethernet. (ALOHA was a...
Kontron AG has long been a juggernaut in the embedded computer solutions and custom-engineer services business. Along the way, it has acquired quite a number of companies. For example, Teknor Applicom, founded in 1985, had more...
Mark Warren is the CEO of Redfone Communications, LLC (www.red-fone.com), a company that has brought high availability to the world of Asterisk® -based, Linux-powered, open source Voice-over-IP. Prior to Redfone, Warren was...
Developing end-to-end mobile unified communications technology is not an easy task, considering the level of integration required, and enterprise mobility is not a stand-alone phenomenon. Moreover, once you've developed a...
In the past, companies may have selected outdoor cabinet enclosures for telecom equipment as an afterthought. But, these enclosures are important because water, corrosion and other environmental forces pose a threat to...
An interesting and inexpensive IP media server (used for such things as voicemail, messaging, conferencing applications and Interactive Voice Response) has come out of Zagreb from a little startup called Uniqall. I was...
Garland Independent School District (ISD), one of the largest school districts in Texas, has replaced its outdated security infrastructure with the PA-4000 Series next-generation firewall from Palo Alto Networks. Thanks to...
Xelerated, a developer of Carrier Ethernet ASSP-based chipsets, has introduced a new reference design for GPON. Xelerated's new HX300 family of network processor units (NPUs) and Ethernet switches can now interoperate with...
Open-Xchange, a provider of open source groupware, has introduced the open source software packages of Open-Xchange Server for most popular Linux distributions. Open-Xchange provides the latest software packages of Open-Xchange...