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.
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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That's double the amount of data used streaming the same video over a 3G link, because the fatter pipe lets more data through.
If you want to get your videos faster, a wider data pipe would help.
Attackers would most likely exploit the DNS servers of hosting companies because they have a bigger data pipe.
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Savvy mobile users will not be satisfied with slow performance or short battery life, and innovations such as hardware-accelerated multimedia engines, more efficient power management techniques and multi-core architectures will all be key to ensuring that devices are able to fully take advantage of the newly broadened data pipe.
Mobile devices must be able to process the data coming through the pipe efficiently and effectively in order to make the experience useful to people.
Customers who want to send data from New York to London cannot use the pipe that goes to Washington, DC.
At 8:20 p.m. on the day of the explosion the pressure data suggest there was a constant flow of sea water being pumped into the drill pipe that was displacing the heavier mud system which was the primary pressure control for the well.
In effect, the client passes the very small amount of data from keypresses or console clicks to a data centre, and streams the video and audio resulting from those clicks back down the pipe to the screen.
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Amazon's Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
Amazon's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
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