Queues can build up at routing servers that switch data packages along different routes to their destinations depending on the traffic.
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Among the possibilities: Bait-and-switch heavy data users off the unlimited plans they signed up for.
Data centres forced to switch to the use of back-up generators warned that they might run out power.
The popularity of online video and the broad switch to digital data in various businesses are generating huge amounts of online traffic.
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The Nexus, which Cisco says will be available for sale in the second half of 2008, isn't the only next-generation network switch to target the data center.
So about three months ago, Mr. Doukas wrote a program to connect his Fitbit data to an Internet-connected switch on his refrigerator that can shut it down if he doesn't exercise.
"Cisco has created the switch for the new virtualized data center, " says Cindy Borovick, an analyst with IDC.
But Brocade's switch can't connect data centers over vast distances like the Nexus, making it less attractive in an increasingly virtualized IT world.
Although this switch will help support faster data speeds, investors dumped its shares fearing the impact of additional debt the company will have to incur to meet this aggressive rollout plan.
Unfortunately, we have no scientific way of knowing which agent you should switch to -- our best data suggest that they are all about equal.
The African market is currently making the switch from feature phones with limited data access, to low-cost smartphones that provide far greater access to the internet and web services.
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This committee has moved forward with a signed letter of intent on common banking, and the development of a common message switch for routing orders and other data to both exchanges.
Now Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), whose name is synonymous with networking, is eyeing that migration to the data center, and working on a big switch of its own--the biggest, in fact, that it has ever produced.
And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.
But while there he learned that in the future the telephone switch would be the big server of data.
However, the study data do not support an advantage for such a switch.
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Microsoft has scenarios of trucks loaded with thousands of servers pulling up to feed its data centers as needed, straight into a Cisco switch.
There's also an off-road mode, which essentially gives you the option to switch over to Opera Mini for extra data compression for those times you need it -- this obviously comes in handy when you're reaching your data threshold or just in a low-reception area.
The company and analysts say the drop in data speed won't be as noticeable as a network switch on Verizon or Sprint.
At the flick of a switch, the screens display real-time connected data like recent Foursquare check-ins, weather, Facebook likes and Instagrams, along with team stats and facts and more for each individual stadium at once.
In his latest book, tech pundit Nicholas Carr put a name on a trend that's transforming information technology: As the world becomes more networked, he points out, computing power is undergoing "the Big Switch, " moving off of desktops and into massive data centers, where it's cheaper and more efficient.
On Monday, Cisco announced the development of the Nexus 7000, a network switch that's capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second--the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) in about 40 seconds.
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Consolidating those three networking systems into one Ethernet network translates into a quick 5% to 8% energy saving in a company's data centers, according to a Bernstein Research report on Cisco's new switch.
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Every node in the enterprise and metro will have to switch at 10 Gbps to handle the seachange from narrowband voice and slow data applications to various forms of full-motion video.
While you may think that CIOs in this scenario are doomed to become as dispensable as the light switch they are supposed to keep turned on, Gartner provides a big data escape hatch to a redefined career path.
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The researchers eventually will switch to satellite communications, which will allow the robot to roam farther and transmit data in real time.
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Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
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