Just 15 days after the Bay news, Nortel announced a product that combines the features of a telephone switch with a Cisco-like ability to handle Internet traffic.
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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That is not chump change so the ability to carry its own traffic on a captive network would be important going forward.
Chicago's ability to handle all this traffic is being badly stretched, however.
The ability to support this exponential rise in traffic will continue to pressure the entire Ethernet eco-system to continue to drive cost per bit downward, so that manufacturers, service providers and users can be offered cost-effective, standards-based solutions, products and services.
Since then, there have been questions about the country's underfunded air traffic control systems, deficient radar system and the airlines' ability to cope with a surge in travelers.
We see this ability to understand patterns by instinct everywhere: artists, air traffic controllers, trading-floor brokers, criminologists, jazz musicians, etc.
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But the county Board of Supervisors has rejected Piscitell's first proposal, arguing that the additional traffic would create unacceptable noise and air pollution and hamstring the county's ability to develop nearby land.
President Obama warned that the country's enemies were "seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions and our air traffic control systems".
In June, the site incorporated a number of new features, including the ability to embed YouTube videos in other sites and links between videos, and traffic began to pick up.
What the NTSB uncovers regarding the FAA's safety certification program could have important implications for the agency's ability to handle other technology challenges, including the transition to a new air traffic control system and the introduction of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace, said Jim Hall, a former safety board chairman.
To do this requires the ability to gain insights as they occur to understand allocation of network resources based on traffic and application requirements, network usage patterns.
Software-defined networks will provide some of this flexibility by separating the control function from data forwarding, but there are additional capabilities emerging, he says, such as intelligent switching of wavelengths, the ability to mix dedicated bandwidth with best-efforts networks, and application layer network traffic optimization, e.g.
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