Virtual Private Networks form a major part of many organisations' network infrastructure. They are often used as a vehicle to serve sensitive information to remote offices and workers. Typically VPN's are created point-to-point making it difficult to add any resilience or more bandwidth. Introducing

Wireless broadband is becoming more and more of a commodity than a rarity these days, in the past households tended to have one computer usually stashed away in a box room or a corner somewhere and home internet was set up by your Internet provider to come in through the wall into one machine. Well

The broadband explosion has carried a strange array of deals, but the users have to search the best deals in the market. You may be getting broadband everywhere in the market but the reality is to choose the best deals amongst them. Many leading broadband network providers are coming up with the ple

If you are travelling half way across England for a crucial meeting, the last thing you want is to forget an important document or be dependent on a last-minute email.The availability of wireless local area technology since the late 1990s combined with increased demand for access to the internet has

A large computer network is many times the backbone of any company, large or small. In many cases, a company cannot function at all if its network is not working properly or it is configured incorrectly, resulting loses of many thousands of dollars (just imagine a search engine or a communication co

The SONET standards were developed in the mid-1980s to take advantage of low-cost transmission over optical fibers. It defines a hierarchy of data rates, formats for framing and multiplexing the payload data, as well as optical signal specifications(wavelength and dispersion), allowing multi-vendor

In fiber optic networks, OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometer) is an opto-electronic instrument used to characterize an optical fiber. OTDR is both the best known and least understood fiber optic instrument.OTDR does not measure loss, but instead implies it by looking at the backscatter signature

Wireless networking is simple in theory: just install a wireless network adapter in each computer and forget about drilling holes and running cable. When you deal with equipment based on the 802.11b (or Wi-Fi) standard, unfortunately, the reality often falls short of claimed specifications. Your wir

Perhaps you are already aware of the fact that the data on your computer can be stored in many different ways, such as CDs, removable disks or DVDs and so on. I may also agree with the fact that all machines reach a point where they crash, with or without any obvious reasons. Floods, fires or human

Digital signage is a step ahead in advertising with the synchronized networks of digital demonstrates screens that offer well-timed information and product branding. Digital signage functions offer to deliver the message to the exact target audience in a manner that matters. If the advertiser is loo