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Authorities charge four California men in ticket reselling scheme that affected Springsteen ticket sales
March 7th, 2010Four California men orchestrated a $25 million dollar cyber scheme that manipulated online ticket sites and cheated fans out of seats at thousands of popular sporting events and concerts, including a series of Bruce Springsteen shows at Giants Stadium, authorities said Monday. Read the rest of this entry “
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First Test Labs for Next-Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) Are Accredited
March 6th, 2010The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The USGv6 Program, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), provides the basis for expressing U.S. government requirements for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) technologies and for testing that commercial products meet those requirements. The availability of commercial testing services is an important step towards the U.S. government’s use of USGv6 acquisition tools, beginning in July 2010.
The current Internet Protocol (IPv4) provides the basic communication service that inter-connects the global set of networks that comprise the Internet. Designed in the early 1970s, IPv4 is rapidly running out of unassigned, globally unique network addresses. IPv6 was designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a next-generation replacement for IPv4. With a vastly larger address space, IPv6 will enable the Internet to grow unbounded for the foreseeable future.The USGv6 Program is intended to assist federal government IT users and acqusition authorities by providing a framework to express and test IPv6 requirements for U.S. government procurements.
ICSA Labs of Mechanicsburg, Pa., and the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory in Durham, N.H., were accredited by private accreditation bodies operating under the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC). To become accredited under the USGv6 program, a test laboratory must demonstrate the quality control processes that insure the accuracy, transparency and reproducibility of their testing results and must demonstrate their use of USGv6-approved test methods and test suites. The end goal is to assure vendors and USGv6 users that the conformance, interoperability and capability tests performed at one commercial lab are equivalent to those of any other accredited lab.
“The accreditation of two open test laboratories is a significant achievement for the USGv6 effort,” noted NIST’s Stephen Nightingale, who leads the testing program. “The existence of two accredited labs demonstrates that our test methods and means of inter-laboratory comparisons and quality control are viable; and in fact, we expect that additional commercial labs will come on-line in the future.”
For more information on the USGv6 Program see the “Frequently Asked Questions” page at www.antd.nist.gov/usgv6/usgv6-v1-faq.htm
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The high-efficiency modular switchboard of scale of city networks
March 6th, 2010Switchboards BigIron 4000 are intended for the organisation of scaled city networks of level of 2 and camera networks of level 3. Reservation of a camera class, multilevel management of a pass-band, the monitoring and account functions
which are carried out with speed of a line is realised. Systems BigIron – an optimum product for high-efficiency decisions for city and Internet networks.The basic characteristics and advantages:
- High density of ports
- Modern memory TCAM (Ternary Content Addressable Memory) provides in the big networks switching of level 3, routeing on the basis of rules, realisation of reports OSPF and BGP4.
- Protection against type attacks “refusal in service” (DoS)
- The expanded lists of the control of access, Secure Shell, Secure Copy, SNMP v3, means аутентификации (AAA, 802.1x, RADIUS, TACACS +).
- The differentiated service with voice transfer support, video and the data in one network with the expanded possibilities of maintenance of quality of service QoS and a multiple-address announcement.
- Pass-band parametrization on demand, high-speed multilevel management of a pass-band.
- The built in technology sFlow ™ (RFC 3176) with use of the information of levels 2-7 for each port provides scaling of functions of the account and billing
- Reservation of power units and the interface modules with hot replacement, Rapid STP, MRP, VRRP and VSRP.
Parametres:
Quantity slots: 4
- Switching capacity – 128 Gbit/with
- With the module 10GbE* 101 million packages a second
- With module Gig E* of 83 million packages in a second
Maximum quantity of ports on system
- 10/100 Ethernet: 144
- Gigabit Ethernet: 56
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet 6
Maximum quantity of ports in a 7-foot rack 10/100 1296
- Gigabit Ethernet: 504
- Gigabit Ethernet 54
- Reservation of power units: 1+1 N+1 N+1
- Specialised functional complexes for camera and corporate networks
- Redundant operating and interface modules with hot replacement.
- Redundant power units with hot replacement
- Aggregation of channels according to IEEE 802.3ad.
- Reports of reservation of network level for networks of 2 and 3 levels.
Functions Level 2
Report MRP (Metro Ring Protocol). Offers alternative to structures on the basis of Spanning Tree and provides in ring Ethernet topology of city networks time of detection of failures and emergency switching of less second. Report VSRP (Virtual Switch Redundancy Protocol). Offers alternative to structures on the basis of Spanning Tree One copy STP functions in one device on all VLAN, organised on port. At the expense of it systems BigIron can support the devices of the third firms working with one copy STP according to the specification 802.1q PVST (Per VLAN Spanning Tree). Gives to services-providers of city networks the control over report STP in everyone VLAN with a view of traffic regulation
PVGST on the basis of standard IEEE 802.1s. Essentially raises scalability STP and VLAN, allowing to use from 2 to 16 copies STP or Rapid STP for service to 4096 VLAN SuperSpanTM.The new working out Foundry, allowing to build very big Ethernet networks of level 2, simple in management and operation Report Rapid STP on the basis of standard IEEE 802.1w. Essentially, to fractions of a second, reduces time of convergence of the report spanning tree Superbig VLAN (SAV). By means of this function the operator can separate domains VLAN of the service-provider from domains VLAN of the client and increase number supported VLAN. The traffic of set VLAN of the standard 802.1q, belonging to one client, unites in one VLAN the service-provider that allows the provider to transfer the traffic of 16 million VLAN, serving to 4096 clients, each of which can use to 4096 VLAN.
Traffic IGMP check (IGMP Snooping). Hardware support of multiple-address appendices Functions Level 3. Support of modern reports of Internet routeing.Systems BigIron support the following scaled reports EGP and IGP
- BGPv4
- OSPF
- IS-IS
Routeing on the basis of rules (PBR). Allows to make individual decisions on routeing on the basis of the source address. Clients of a city network can get in one configuration access to various service decisions, including the raised security measures, the expanded possibilities, access to preferable providers.
Private virtual local networks (VLAN).
Full-function complex of functions of a multiple-address announcement. Hardware support of a multiple-address announcement, including reports DVMRP, MSDP, PIM-SM (Sparse Mode) and PIM-DM (Dense Mode) Reports VRRP and VRRPE (Enhanced VRRP). Allow to use BigIron as a reserve network router. In default, BigIron automatically and бесшовно starts to carry out functions of the failed router. Universal network management The centralised network management. The graphic web – interface Foundry IronView Network Manager allows to supervise from the central station modernisation of the software and configurations for any product Foundry. The command interface. The standard interface for all products Foundry.Popularity: 29% [?]
Cisco Quits WiMax Radio Business
March 6th, 2010Cisco Systems will stop developing and making WiMax base stations to concentrate on the IP (Internet Protocol) networks that sit behind them. Cisco acquired Navini Networks, which made WiMax RAN (radio access network) equipment, in 2007. The dominant IP networking company said at the time that it saw a powerful opportunity to bring broadband Internet access to developing countries through WiMax.
However, despite hitting the market first, WiMax has taken a back seat to LTE (Long-Term Evolution) as a 4G (fourth-generation) mobile technology. LTE is backed by the industry body behind GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and is on the road maps of most major carriers that have chosen a 4G system. In the U.S., Verizon Wireless plans to launch LTE commercially this year and AT&T will follow next year.Cisco can serve both markets with products it acquired through its purchase last year of Starent Networks, which made gateways between radio networks and a carrier’s core IP infrastructure. Both WiMax and LTE are based on IP packet networks. In order to concentrate on this business, the company will get out of making the actual radios that deliver WiMax signals to subscribers’ devices.
“Cisco’s mobile strategy has always been to provide a radio-agnostic approach that focuses on the packet core and IP network, where the company can add differentiated value. After a recent review of our WiMax business, we announced a decision to discontinue designing and building new WiMax base stations and modems, and we also announced a support plan for transitioning existing customers,” Cisco spokesman Jim Brady said Friday.
The Navini products haven’t played a big role in high-profile WiMax networks. Cisco is a supplier to the world’s largest WiMax network project, Clearwire’s national U.S. buildout, but only with IP equipment, not radios.
Analysts called the Starent acquisition a move away from WiMax toward the larger LTE market. Unlike WiMax, which had its roots in the wireless LAN world, with strong backing by Intel, LTE is dominated by the giants of cellular equipment, such as Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent. Cisco has said it does not intend to compete with those types of vendors.
Analysts were not surprised by Cisco’s announcement.
“Cisco pulling out at this moment looks like good business,” said analyst Laurence Swasey of Visant Strategies. He believes LTE will dominate the 4G world and may even be adopted by current WiMax carriers eventually.
Cisco did the WiMax industry a big favor by buying Navini, Swasey said. “It was a stamp of approval at a time when the market was very fragmented as to what 3.5G and 4G would be to the masses,” he said. Today, several major vendors, including Huawei, Samsung and Motorola, are supplying RAN equipment for commercial networks. Cisco’s decision to get out of the business will have far less impact than its choosing to get in, Swasey said.
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Touching the Wi-Fi Network
March 6th, 2010First confirm that your network router is working properly for all your other computers and that your iPod Touch is actually connected to it — and not the neighbor’s Wi-Fi network. To see the name of the network, tap the Settings icon on the Home screen and see what is listed next to Wi-Fi. (This advice also applies to the iPhone.)
If you find you are accidentally picking up someone else’s network, tap the name of the network listed to go to the next screen. You should see a list of nearby networks on the next screen. If you are connected to the wrong one, tap the name of your own network in the list and type in any required password; then see if you can get to the Internet on the Touch.If the Touch shows that you are connected to your own network on the Wi-Fi Networks screen, tap the blue arrow next to the network name. The next screen should show the Wi-Fi network information for the iPod Touch. Unless you have a specially configured network, you probably want to have the option for D.H.C.P. (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) selected and the screen should display a series of numbers like the I.P. address. (Every device connecting to the Internet needs one of these Internet Protocol addresses to work.)
If all the numbers are filled in but you still can’t get on the Internet, tap the Renew Lease button, which should give you an updated I.P. address number. Try to connect to the Internet and see if it works.
If it doesn’t, you can reset the information the Touch keeps on hand for this network by tapping the Forget This Network button on the network settings screen. Once you forget the network, return to the screen with the list of Wi-Fi networks, choose your network again and carefully retype the setup and password information.
You can also reset all the network settings on the Touch by tapping the settings icon on the Home screen, tapping General and then Reset and then on Reset All Network Settings. If you still can’t get it to work properly, Apple has other suggestions at .
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Work of the British and American soldiers on disarmament of these devices the heroic
February 24th, 2010The soldier it is noisy breathes and quickly puts a charge on one of streets of Bagdad. «I want, that these people knew, if they leave a bomb for us, we will blow up their road» Read the rest of this entry “
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NTP Time Servers
October 15th, 2009Time Servers and NTP serve are widely used to synchronize the time on computer networks. NTP provides the ability to access time servers, organize the time synchronization subnet Read the rest of this entry “
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$14 billion to give one-time $250 payments to Social Security
February 14th, 2009House and Senate leaders Wednesday struck a deal on a $789 billion economic stimulus bill after little more than 24 hours of rapid-fire negotiations with the Obama administration, clearing the way for final congressional action later this week. Read the rest of this entry “
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Objective
February 14th, 2009Ensure a trusted and dependable security framework, ubiquitous, working across multiple devices, heterogeneous networks, being organisation independent (inter-operable) and centred around an end-user. Read the rest of this entry “
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New Architecture and Models
February 14th, 2009We design new models, adapted to nomadic users, enabling the design of suitable architecture for personal and home usages, users’ access from public facilities (“Hot spots”), workers at the office and on the move, mobile sub-networks, onboard of car, train, and aircraft and e-government. Those models are designed to address three usages, with different priorities:
- For personal usage, the priority concerns are ease of use and privacy protection,
- For business usage, the heterogeneity and mobility are the major issues with a priority and accessibility,
- For public services and e-government, the priority is the survivability of the infrastructure, and then integrated in a transversal trust and security model.
SEINIT delivers specification documents of the security framework with, in regard the threat and vulnerabilities addressed.
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