Allot intros big bandwidth shaper
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Killing off the application-independent internet Allot Communications, an Israeli outfit which does high-end bandwidth shaping and network traffic management gear, has brought out an even bigger Service Gateway device. Aimed at the service provider (SP) or large enterprise, this is capable of handling over 20 Gbit/s of traffic.â¦
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Mike Wallner has thrown together some stats for the latest edition of the pecl/http package to test its response performance.   The results surprised me, because it clearly shows that the performance drop for starting the PHP engine and doing the neccessary negotiation to provide caching is not that bad.   There's a chart of the results as well as a full PDF with all of the stats the graph maps out. He includes the legend to make the graph easier to understand.
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A new product from Swarmcast monitors data flow to optimize video quality.
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Tinkerer Iain Sharp couldn't bear to part with his first computer -- a Mac SE/30 -- so he turned it into a powerful media server using a mini PC motherboard and a software emulator. By Leander Kahney.
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plui writes &quot;An all IPv6 backbone was launched this weekend in China. &#39;CERNET2 is the biggest next-generation Internet network in operation in the world and connects 25 universities in 20 cities.
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RealNetworks rolls out a media player with clip downloading functionality.
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Social-networking sites are using up such huge amounts of bandwidth that ISPs, universities, and businesses struggle to keep pace.
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Jonathan Street has a few tips for developers out there looking to speed things up on their site - seven tips towards "lightning fast sites".   I was recently creating a small tool in PHP and found myself hitting the max execution time and getting a fatal error. As it was only for my personal use I just bumped up the max execution time but it made me stop and think about how I could improve the speed of those scripts I do put up for public use. Most people aren't going to wait for 60 seconds for a page to load. Naturally I hit the internet looking for tips.    The tips he came across (each including the simple benchmarks to show the differences) were:   sizeof vs count is_int vs is_integer chop vs rtrim doubleval vs floatval fwrite vs fputs implode vs join ini_alter vs ini_set   Be sure to also check out his follow up post talking about building better benchmarks to test the sorts of tips he's given above.
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Today we released version 1.6.3 of Streamline, a stream-based network subsystem for Linux.   This first release in over a half year has been thorougly stress-tested, so it should be more stable. New features include support for named and unnamed pipes, the full POSIX file IO interface, a write-after-read optimization similar to splicing, a method for catching HTTP GET requests and self-resizing (based on load) ringbuffer designs. Please read the changelog for more details.
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The Fibre Channel backbone links disparate SANs throughout the DoD and increases security and resiliency while lowering costs. It's vendor is claiming the is among the largest ever built.
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A new high-speed, IP-based network will connect more than 1,000 domestic locations and tens of thousand of users in the US and overseas.
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More efficient video compression; receiver add-on for TV.
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Freeline range to serve content to Streamium AV kit
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A 7200rpm unit that's as fast as a 10,000rpm job, apparently
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An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd, supporting reliable syslog over TCP and RFC 3195, writing to MySQL databases, fully configurable output formats (with great timestamps), ability to filter on anything, and on-the-wire message compression.   Hi all,  Rsyslog 3.11.2 has just been released. Now it has the ability to convert text files into syslog. This is done by the imfile plugin, which monitors text files. A new libdbi-based output plugin has been written. This adds six additional databases (including Firebird and Oracle) to the supported database set. Also contains small bug fixes. Version 3.11.2 is a recommended release for all version 3 users.  Doc for new Modules:    http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-omlibdbi.html    http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-imfile.html  Changelog:    http://www.rsyslog.com/Article175.phtml  Download:    http://www.rsyslog.com/Downloads-req-getit-lid-79.phtml  I hope this release is useful. As always, feedback is appreciated.  Best regards, Rainer Gerhards
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When Tim Howes and a group of colleagues created the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol almost 15 years ago, he had no idea this quiet little front end to the more robust X.500 directory
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The data center fabric will at a minimum bring together network, server, and storage administrators. Are you ready? Can you handle it?