Short takes from this week's technology
news
BT trials IP replacement for UK phone
network
BT is trialling its 21st Century Network (21CN) between Woolwich
and Cambridge, sending millions of voice calls over Cisco hardware
in preparation for a national roll-out in November. One of the
world's largest next-generation IP network projects, 21CN is due to
replace most of the UK's public switched telephony network by
2010.
Use of Mobile Wimax to overtake Wimax by
2012
Adoption of Mobile Wimax will overtake fixed Wimax by 2012,
according to Juniper Research. The two broadband wireless standards
are running in parallel, but Juniper said Fixed Wimax subscribers
ought to be transferred to Mobile Wimax over time.
Google launches open source project service
Google has launched an open source project hosting service.
Google Project Hosting offers open source developers workspaces
with membership controls, a version control system, issue tracking
and mailing lists.
Wisdom of the optical 'firewall on a chip'
A research consortium has begun a three-year EU-funded project
to develop a reconfigurable photonic "firewall on a chip". The
Wisdom system aims to implement security checks and algorithms
directly at optical data communication rates.
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