Making allies of the data center and ruggedization to succeed in mobile command and control.

John Long (RadiSys)

As if it were not enough of a challenge to marry data center computing capabilities and extreme ruggedization in a single infrastructure, ground mobile applications also cannot neglect the need for low power consumption.

Switching at the speed of light II

Curt Schwaderer (Technology Editor)

Yes, it IS light, but Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect is no lightweight when stacked up against electromagnetic signaling.

The case for replacing AdvancedMC card edge gold pads

Michael Seele (HARTING)

Increasing interconnection reliability

Mars on earth

Hermann Strass (Editor)

Preparing to land on Mars

Migrating applications to the cloud: Finding success with a virtual appliance model

Mike Slattery (NEI)

Architecting applications to run in a variety of configurations, including the cloud.

White Paper: Lethal Cocktail: Internet Traffic Offloading and Traffic Shaping Don't Mix Well

Manish Singh, VP Product Line Management (Continuous Computing Corporation)

The introduction of flat rate $99 all-you-can-eat data plans was, if not the most important, a very critical factor that catalyzed mobile broadband adoption. At the same time, these plans have set consumers' expectations for getting more and more bandwidth for less and less money. In fact, the decoupling between traffic growth and revenue growth is the single biggest challenge that mobile network operators face today.

White Paper: Increasing Carrier-Class High Availability

Ravi Kiran, Senior Engineer (Continuous Computing Corporation)

This document is intended for system architects and engineers who are considering how to build a reliable network infrastructure within an ATCA-based platform for network element applications. As this is an introduction to the HA approaches in widespread use today, it does not cover in depth the specialized techniques intended for particular categories of applications. It does, though, shed light on the advancements and best practices to achieve ... [read more]

Comparing Ethernet and RapidIO

Barry Wood (IDT)

Mass-market Ethernet is not Data Center Ethernet