We had been waiting for Cisco to “Change the Internet Forever”, and seems like they almost did. Cisco has launched CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, is three times faster than its predecessor CRS-1, six years later. CRS-3 is designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond. With more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system (Juniper), Read further »

Cisco, the world leader in networking equipment, is all set to announce the Next Big Thing for the Internet, this March. The new technology would enable communications service providers to offer more advanced, high-speed Internet connections. Cisco has refused to reveal-out exact details but their recent plans and announcements lead to converged, faster networks. UPDATE: Cisco CRS-3 Announced, Boosts Internet Backbone Speeds to 322 Terabits. Recently, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Read further »

Windows 7’s popularity has raised its market share at a sky-high pace. Within 3 months of its official launch, it has crossed the Mac OS to capture 8% of the OS market. A while back, we discussed that Windows 7 features a half-baked “SoftAP” feature, also called “virtual Wi-Fi,” that allows a PC to function as a Wi-Fi client and also as an Access Point Read further »

Tired of slow internet services? If few Mb/s is no longer your cup of tea, it’s time to be a part of Google’s new Experiment: Gigabit Internet Service. Google is planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. Google promises to deliver 100x times faster than most i.e. 1 gigabit per second, FTTH, fibre-to-the-home connections. Read further »

The Depleting IPv4 address space had been of concern since nearly a decade. The concerns transformed into efforts that lead to the evolution of IPv6. With the current pace of depletion of IPv4, we would run out of address space within a year. The latest usage report is out which gives us exact usage numbers: 80.5% address space is used, up from 75.3% of last year (2009 begining). As of Jan 1st, 2010, the number of unused IPv4 addresses is 722.18 million. On January 1, 2009, this was 925.58 million. So in 2009, 203.4 million addresses were used up. This is the first time since the introduction of CIDR in 1993 that the number of Read further »

Did you assume that WiMax was the future of wireless networks? Back in May09, we reported that a New MultiGigabit technology is coming to change it all. Leave behind those slow WiFi and WiMax that leave you in miserable mbps of speeds, leap frog to gigabits, thanks to Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig). Read more: New Read further »

Wireless Networks have long been a threat to our network security. Security freaks know it that breaking a wireless WEP network takes couple of seconds. All it takes is to capture those IVs and calculate the key by simple maths. When WEP was launched it was called Wired equivalent privacy, Now people call it Wasted On the contrary, WPA based networks are still better, it need dictionary brute force which can be very slow at times coz all the permutations and combinations will take several hours over standard core duo or quad cores. However, what if you could leverage the Power of Read further »

In it’s never ending endeavors to speedup the web, google has today launched a DNS service as an alternate to your ISP`s DNS Server. The project is called Google Public DNS. Previously, we saw emergence of  SPDY, the faster replacement for HTTP and then GO Programming language, a language that can meet the speed of C. For those who know little about DNS: It is the service lookup used to find the IP address of a Server/Host based on Fully qualified Domain name (FQDN). Normally, for every visit to a domain: google.com, taranfx.com; a query is made to the DNS server everytime, unless cached by the OS or the browser (almost all Read further »

WiFi is a must in every smartphone, but Today’s report brings bad news for enthusiasts who use WiFi excessively for their daily online interactions. The list of vulnerable devices is huge: Nokia N95, HTC Tilt running Windows Mobile, HTC G1 running Android, and the iPhone 3GS with the 3.1.2 firmware. All of them Read further »

Most small-medium enterprises (SMEs) suffer from bandwidth shortages pertaining to users engaging in file sharing applications who were consuming all of its network bandwidth. Often companies deploy expensive solutions to tackle the problem by blocking unwanted traffic and prioritizing wanted traffic. Few such solutions attracting interest are Exinda, and packeteer,  now owned by Bluecoat. With Read further »