However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.
For one thing, the genius of the packet-switched network means new VoIP services can reach every user worldwide without any specific infrastructure investment.
The answer turns out to be deep packet inspection, which examines network traffic to identify what you're sending and where it's going.
To me it smells of a nice backdoor ruse to get around the principle of network neutrality where every packet is equal.
Why did the phone companies cling to expensive switched network standards even as packet-switched voice grew robust enough to deliver acceptable fidelity at a much lower cost per connection?
It is a packet-switched technology, and only consumes network resources when data is being transmitted, so it is widely expected that customers will be charged for the amount of data they exchange, rather than the time they spend logged on to the network.
Although the phone also runs on GPRS, or general packet radio services, GPRS is far slower than the EDGE network.
Every packet contains the address of its destination and is individually routed through the network.
The devil is in the details, which is why smart silicon is required to address this challenge, performing tasks like packet inspection, or looking into those packets as they move throughout the network and making decisions about what to do with them and which ones to prioritize.
Now that wide-area wireless network operators recognize Wi-Fi hotspots as complementary to their advanced packet-data networks, they will end up owning or leasing most of today's hotspots and will build out coverage.
Packet Design's engineers plan to infuse new software into this layer of the network in six months.
His software uses sophisticated packet inspection and statistical modeling techniques to take snapshots of what moves across the continually changing network of PCs.
Packet switching got its name thanks to late British scientist Donald Davies who was creating a network that used this technique at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
The company's press release says the 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology.
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