Ka-band satellite broadband service is on its way, provided it is marketed to business and a pioneering provider is willing to kick-start the market, according to an analyst report released Thursday.
In attempts to increase competition in the telecommunications market, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has temporarily halted approval of winback promotions by incumbent wireline telecommunications providers and is inviting public comment on the issue.
New content switching devices released by Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday could enable enterprises to centralize management of distributed data centres and balance Web traffic across data centre networks, improving performance and scalability, the company says.
With revenues hitting US$668 million in the third quarter of 2002, the worldwide VPN and firewall market is soaring and is forecasted to increase to US$874 million this time next year, according to Infonetics Research Inc.
Grid computing, computing as a utility, IP dial tone and pervasive or ubiquitous computing were cited as primary emerging trends pushing the drive towards Internet computing in Pricewaterhouse Cooper