Accelerating Virtualized Environments with Wide-Area Data Services (WDS) 
Publisher: Riverbed
Is your organization grappling with the performance challenges of virtualization and IT consolidation? Download this white paper and discover how wide-area data services (WDS) can help deliver the benefits of... [06 Jul 2008]
Live Webcast: Telecoms 2.0 - Where is telecoms heading?
Publisher: ZDNet UK
UK telecoms is at a crossroads. IT managers face new demands to enable flexible working, deliver converged networks and provide support for multiple applications employing voice, video and media rich... [06 Jul 2008]
Testing Ethernet Networks for the ATLAS Data Collection System
Publisher: University Politehnica of Bucharest
This paper reports recent work on Ethernet traffic generation and analysis. The paper uses Gigabit Ethernet NICs running customized embedded software and custom-built 32-port Fast Ethernet boards based on FPGAs... [06 Jul 2008]
The Ethernet Speaker System
Publisher: Drexel University
If one wishes to distribute audio in a large room, building, or even a campus, one needs multiple speakers. These speakers must be jointly managed and synchronized. The Ethernet Speaker... [06 Jul 2008]
Detecting Duplex Mismatch on Ethernet
Publisher: Internet2
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet networks, a standard LAN environment, provide a way to auto-negotiate the settings of capacity (10, 100, or 1000 Mb/s) and duplex (full- or half-). Under certain conditions... [06 Jul 2008]
The Convergence of Ethernet and Ethernot: A 10-Gigabit Ethernet Perspective
Publisher: Ohio State University
Off late, a vast number of interconnect technologies such as InfiniBand, Myrinet and Quadrics have been introduced into the System-Area Network (SAN) environment; the primary driving requirements of this environment... [06 Jul 2008]
RF Over Ethernet for Wireless Infrastructure
Publisher: Vanu
Existing interconnects between RF and processing hardware have been tightly integrated at a system bus level or have incorporated proprietary network hardware, usually tied to the particular data being transported.... [06 Jul 2008]
Design Alternatives for a High-Performance Self-Securing Ethernet Network Interface
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
This paper presents and evaluates a strategy for integrating the Snort network intrusion detection system into a high-performance programmable Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), considering the impact of several possible... [06 Jul 2008]
The Performance of Ethernet Under a Combined Data/Real-Time Traffic
Publisher: Sultan Qaboos University
This paper investigates the performance of an IEEE802.3 shared-bandwidth hub under a mixed data/real-time traffic load. For the regular data nodes an exponentially distributed packet length with a Poisson arrival... [06 Jul 2008]
Ethernet as Transport Technology of Choice in Campus Ring Environments
Publisher: Integrated Photonics Technology
The demand for more bandwidth is clearly driven by IP-based applications and consequently service providers are looking at infrastructures best support such applications. It has become clear that a packet-centric... [06 Jul 2008]
A Network on Chip Based Gigabit Ethernet Router Implemented on an FPGA
Publisher: Linkoping University
This paper shares the experiences gained from implementing an FPGA-based gigabit Ethernet router based on the SoCBUS network on chip architecture. The main reason for this project has been to... [06 Jul 2008]
Leveraging Ethernet in Multiservice Networks
Publisher: Nortel Networks
MultiService Networks (MSNs) deliver dependable external or inter-site communication to many connected companies. Frame Relay, ATM, IP-VPN and other services provided by MSNs serve as the foundation for enterprise WAN... [06 Jul 2008]
Localized Message Passing Structure for High Speed Ethernet Packet Switching
Publisher: Northeastern University
This paper introduces two different physical structures and topologies to realize an ethernet layer-2 switch. To evaluate these two structures and produce throughput projections the paper has utilized MPI. This... [06 Jul 2008]
Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade
Publisher: Ciena
Off late, virtually all new end-user and most new machine-to-machine applications are designed around the Internet Protocol (IP). Within 99 percent of Local Area Networks (LANs), Ethernet is used to... [06 Jul 2008]
Pipelined Broadcast on Ethernet Switched Clusters
Publisher: Florida State University
This paper considers unicast-based pipelined broadcast schemes for clusters connected by multiple Ethernet switches. By splitting a large broadcast message into segments and broadcasting the segments in a pipelined fashion,... [06 Jul 2008]
Multiservice Ethernet Network Termination Units: The Need for Integrated TDM & LAN Access Over Ethernet Services
Publisher: RAD Data Communications
As the benefits of Ethernet networking in the metro and wide-area have become clear, service providers are lining up to meet the rapidly growing demand for Ethernet services. As with... [06 Jul 2008]
Challenges and Opportunities for Transport Providers & Mobile Operators
Publisher: RAD Data Communications
Although mobile backhaul transport providers have very different needs than mobile operators, their interests dovetail when it comes to efficient and optimized multiservice backhaul networks. Mobile operators are experiencing numerous... [06 Jul 2008]
High Performance User Level Sockets Over Gigabit Ethernet
Publisher: Ohio State University
While a number of User-Level Protocols have been developed to reduce the gap between the performance capabilities of the physical network and the performance actually available, applications that have already... [06 Jul 2008]
Integrating Ethernet in Carrier Class Networks
Publisher: Juniper Networks
Service providers are experiencing a variety of processing demands for handling the growth of Ethernet traffic in converged IP networks in both metro and core environments. IP convergence, with its... [06 Jul 2008]
A Scalable Ethernet Clos-Switch
Publisher: John von Neumann Institute for Computing
The Scalability of Cluster Computers with Gigabit-Ethernet interconnect is limited by the unavailability of scalable Gigabit-Ethernet switches that can achieve full bisectional bandwidth. Clos' idea of connecting small crossbar-switches to... [06 Jul 2008]
