New and Improved Router on a Floppy Disk: Freesco in 2003
Source: CrossNodes
Networking
Fast-forwarding digital cable
Source: CNet News
Big Cable has sunk more than $70 billion into digital upgrades for U.S. cable systems, but consumers have yet to be persuaded that the cost of the service is worthwhile.
Each month nearly 5 percent of digital subscribers either downgrade from it or cancel altogether--twice the churn rate of basic cable.
Review: Vonage's Voice-over-IP broadband phone service
Techfocus has just released a pretty thorough review of Vonage's VoIP telephone service. Essentially the service allows you to use a traditional telephone, which you plug into a router they provide. You plug that into your broadband connection, and can make unlimited local and long distance calls for a pretty low monthly fee. If you're a college student, travel a lot or live overseas, this is a good review to check out!
Internet speed record smashed
Source: CNN.com
L33tdawg: 923Mbits/sec -- schweet...
Offering a glimpse of a faster digital future, researchers announced they have set a new Internet speed record.
Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center used fiber-optic cables to transfer 6.7 gigabytes of data -- the equivalent of two DVD movies -- across 6,800 miles in less than a minute.
Understanding Zeroconf and Multicast DNS
Source: O'Reilly Network
Zeroconf, and its direct competitor UPnP, provide for automatic configuration and address allocation. This can be accomplished on both Ethernet and wireless networks, but we think it's a good bet that this protocol will become wildly popular in the wireless world. You walk into a room with your laptop, it discovers a printer, you send a print command, paper emerges.
Broadband secrets revealed
Source: BBC
The presentation of the benefits of high-speed internet access have little to do with how people actually use broadband, a report has found.
The technology's often-touted selling points - speed and the capacity to be always on - have little clout with the people that use broadband, the study said.
Instead it found that the main advantage for users is that they do not have to worry about the cost of spending too much time online.
Fundamentals of Grid Computing -- IBM Redpaper
Hungry for facts and data about grid computing? This IBM technical Redpaper covers concepts, use, and architecture. Learn Grid concepts, Grid components, Grid construction and what Grid Computing can do now and in the future, and what it cant do now wont be able to do in the future.
