Bandwidth Issues

We live in a world where businesses can fail or thrive through connectivity and networks. The availability of secure, affordable networks allows organisations to connect offices, facilities, staff, management, customers, suppliers and partners together into a commercial ecosystem. In such an environment organisations are increasingly dependent on their networks for not just their day-to-day operational existence but also their current and future commercial fortunes. tech news

Located in Norristown, PA, in Montgomery County, the Methacton School District is tasked with instructing and preparing for employment and higher education the students of Lower Providence and Worcester Townships. As more and more educational applications were brought online, the district realized that it needed to upgrade its data infrastructure. Methacton required a high-speed, high-bandwidth network to provide the proper support for the applications. Working with 3Com Gold Partner Dauphin DataCom, Methacton chose a Gigabit Ethernet switching solution with XRN technology from 3Com to meet its requirements. Methacton's new XRN technology based Gigabit Ethernet network provides the speed, reliability, and bandwidth that the district sought to support its educational goals. tech news

WilTel Communications through its operating subsidiary Williams Communications, LLC, provides voice, data, video, and IP services to carrier-class customers, such as telecommunications and media companies, for whom bandwidth is either the primary business or a core component of the products and services they deliver. WilTel wanted to offer its customers the ability to "manage your network within our network" by providing a full suite of network management capabilities from a single, easy-to-use entry point. To deliver a premium level of operational visibility to its customers, WilTel turned to the award-winning BEA WebLogic Portal. WilTel built the Direct Network Access (DNA) portal on BEA's unified, simplified, and extensible platform, which provides the foundation for an application that enables WilTel customers to, more effectively manage their bandwidth utilization to reduce costs and increase revenue flow. tech news

The Cisco Gatekeeper maintains a record of all active calls so that it can manage the bandwidth resources in its zone. In a cluster configuration, the Gatekeeper Update Protocol (GUP) announcement indication message is exchanged every set interval of time and carries information about the bandwidth utilization for the zone. This GUP message exchange allows the alternate Gatekeepers to properly manage the bandwidth for a single zone, even though the Gatekeepers are in separate physical devices. tech news

An interconnect for a high-performance cluster has to be optimized in respect to both high throughput and low latency. To avoid the tradeoff between throughput and latency, the cluster interconnect Clint has a segregated architecture that provides two physically separate transmission channels: a bulk channel optimized for high-bandwidth traffic and a quick channel optimized for low-latency traffic. Different scheduling strategies are applied. The bulk channel uses a scheduler that globally allocates time slots on the transmission paths before packets are sent off. tech news