Then a recent report from the House Intelligence Committee brought up the issue of potential security issues with Chinese telecom Huawei, which installed gear to manage traffic on wireless networks in the U.S. The report noted the potential for spying through Huawei gear installed to manage traffic on wireless networks.
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The purpose of a firewall is to establish a positive enforcement model, i.e. limit traffic between networks of different trust levels to that which is allowed and block everything else.
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Many of those systems which run everything from subway systems to air-traffic control networks have since been linked to the Internet, making them more efficient but also exposing them to cyber attack.
What will be in demand are intercontinental air travel, remote area access where air strips are spotty, air traffic control networks, aerospace fasteners capable of holding together lighter, stronger composite structures, airplane maintenance and overhaul, jet engines and spare parts galore.
News sites get only 9% of their traffic from social networks, while they still get 32% of traffic from search engines such as Google and 36% from visits to their own sites.
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Tellabs, Inc. makes digital cross-connects, essentially big switches that direct traffic over telephone networks.
But in the near term, telcos must be smart about managing traffic on their networks.
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Voice traffic on cellular networks currently is routed with what is known as a circuit-switched system.
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In the face of continued exponential growth in mobile Internet traffic, these networks just need a lot more raw capacity to keep up.
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The appeal, to telcos and other companies that offer cellular service, is the ability to move costly traffic off their networks while still providing good connectivity to customers.
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All 27 EU states are stolidly opposed to the changes (though many of its network providers aren't), some of which were leaked from a draft Russian document proposing more control over traffic entering its networks.
Kozel, an 18-year veteran of Cisco Systems, can choose from dozens of thriving peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and they now churn out almost 40% of all Net traffic, says Ellacoya Networks, a firm in Merrimack, N.
Another 11% of traffic hopped between ports, and 15% of networks showed some traffic using Tor, an anonymity and censorship prevention tool.
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Traffic on carrier backbone networks is growing exponentially, driving global momentum for commercial 100G deployments and attracting attention on optical transport beyond 100G.
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The circles of influence in a flock of birds resemble (perhaps not flatteringly) how our online social networks shape traffic flow to content.
But most carriers have not instituted automatic traffic offloads between their networks and Wi-Fi due to the complexity of building such a system.
However, the power Google holds over recipients of its organic search traffic and competing ad networks is much larger than most in the industry are aware.
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In fact, some carriers are already shifting their messaging traffic to their data networks, according to Devesh Agarwal, vice president of mobile messaging at telecommunications company Tekelec.
Analysts say Huawei is now one of the leading vendors globally of equipment for Long Term Evolution, or LTE, a wireless standard that allows higher traffic speeds than older networks.
In other words: not all packets are created equal, which means as video traffic grows, mobile networks are going to need to get smarter about how they manage the packets traversing their infrastructures.
For the past two years, Ruckus has turned its attention to carriers who are overwhelmed by mobile users checking email, weather and Facebook and are looking for ways to offload 3G and 4G traffic from their cellular networks.
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Under the banner "Save the Internet, " a noisy coalition of mainly Democratic groups and tech firms like eBay and Microsoft is pressing for language that would require cable and telephone companies to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing on their networks.
Older networks were built for voice traffic with a data pipe running through it, but newer networks are for data only.
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In the last 10 years telco cash flows happily exceeded the capital required to maintain their networks, but with traffic booming thanks to smartphones and unlimited data plans, the required investment is starting to exceed the cash the networks can generate.
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The number of users with mobile devices is expected to climb to 5.2 billion in 2017 from 4.3 billion in 2012 and traffic across high-speed 4G networks will grow 40-fold during that time, according to a five-year forecast for mobile traffic data compiled by Cisco Systems and released today.
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Growth in mobile traffic is not simply a result of a shift in internet traffic from wired to mobile networks.
And traffic between geographically separated company networks can be routed through a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel instead of being exposed to the open Internet.
Mobile traffic growth is both a result of stimulation of higher internet usage as well as the shift of some traffic from wireline to wireless networks.
Operators need to offload this new type of data traffic to Wi-Fi networks fast, to relieve the 3G networks as they plan their build-out strategy for even more mobile data use.
The market for mission critical enterprise storage solutions will continue grow as enterprises try to save energy costs and reduce network complexity by moving network traffic to dedicated storage area networks.
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