White Paper: Lethal Cocktail: Internet Traffic Offloading and Traffic Shaping Don't Mix Well

Manish Singh, VP Product Line Management (Continuuos Computing)

The introduction of flat rate $99 all-you-can-eat data plans was, if not the most important, a very critical factor that catalyzed mobile broadband adoption. At the same time, these plans have set consumers' expectations for getting more and more bandwidth for less and less money. In fact, the decoupling between traffic growth and revenue growth is the single biggest challenge that mobile network operators face today.

White Paper: Increasing Carrier-Class High Availability

Ravi Kiran, Senior Engineer (Continuous Computing); Ravi Kiran, Senior Engineer (Continuous Computing); Ravi Kiran, Senior Engineer (Continuous Computing); Ravi Kiran, Senior Engineer (Continuous Computing)

This document is intended for system architects and engineers who are considering how to build a reliable network infrastructure within an ATCA-based platform for network element applications. As this is an introduction to the HA approaches in widespread use today, it does not cover in depth the specialized techniques intended for particular categories of applications. It does, though, shed light on the advancements and best practices to achieve ... [read more]

Comparing Ethernet and RapidIO

Barry Wood (IDT)

Mass-market Ethernet is not Data Center Ethernet

Packet Pressure: Next-gen applications raise benchmark for network capacity

Venkataraman Prasannan (RadiSys)

Service Providers want Average Revenue per User to grow, while systems migration to 40G proceeds smoothly.

Different strokes: How SA Forum and OpenSAF complement each other in strengthening awareness of service availability

John Fryer (SA Forum); Monica Hatlen (OpenSAF Foundation)

Understand their relationship to one another, to furthering Service Availability, and to your objectives.

Virtual prototyping pushes the fast forward button for software development

Curt Schwaderer (Technology Editor)

Curt reports on his conversation with Marc Serughetti, Director of Marketing at Synopsys. Learn where virtual prototyping, fast simulation of hardware that makes testing without physical hardware possible, is most likely to make its mark and why.

Shelf Manager case files: Real-life examples show integration issues have many guises

Eric Gregory (RadiSys Corporation)

Hands-on familiarity developing application-ready AdvancedTCA systems lends benefits to resolving Shelf Manager integration issues.

AdvancedTCA in the data center: Intelligent networking designs for 40 Gbps and beyond

Jarrod Siket (Netronome)

As fast, dumb pipes make way for end-to-end intelligent and secure communications paths, the use of COTS hardware platforms for application hosting is gaining ground.