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Internet's bandwidth health still in trouble

Nemertes Research continued to throw cold water on the future of the Internet this week, releasing a study projecting that demand for bandwidth on the Web would exceed its capacity by 2012.

The study, which is a follow-up to similar research Nemertes conducted last year, projects that the current global economic recession will only delay rather than eliminate the increased demand for bandwidth the firm predicted last year. Then, Nemertes projected that traffic growth would eclipse supply by 2010, but the firm now says it has adjusted its projections to reflect deteriorating global economic conditions.

Does the bandwidth shortage mean out Internet future is in danger?

Nemertes emphasized it is not projecting that the Internet will crash or shut down altogether. Rather, the typical user probably will experience Internet "brownouts," where such high-bandwidth applications as high-definition video-streaming and peer-to-peer file-sharing will stop performing up to users' expectations, the firm says.

During a presentation at an Internet Innovation Alliance symposium this week, Nemertes analyst Mike Jude said that one consequence of declining Web performance would be that users would look less to the Internet to deliver their desired applications. "More and more applications are coming online that will drive expectations for service quality even higher," he said. "I'm not saying that the Internet is going to crash in 2011, but that people's expectations are going to be throttled. People will stop going to the Internet for those services."

One big reason for the projected growth in traffic is the continuing emergence of virtual workers who work from home or in remote branch offices located far away from companies' central offices, Nemertes says. In particular, these remote workers "expect seamless communications, regardless of where they conduct business" and they "often require more advanced communication and collaboration tools than those who work at headquarters," including videoconferencing and Web conferencing, the report says.

Another factor is simply the large growth in high-bandwidth applications for users to employ. More ISPs in the coming years will follow the lead of such companies as Comcast and AT&T trying out bandwidth caps that will charge extra money each month for heavy bandwidth consumers, Nemertes says. Although Comcast now caps individual bandwidth consumption at a relatively high 250GB per month, average future users will easily reach or surpass that bandwidth limit as they find higher-bandwidth applications to use, the firm says.

"Though this traffic load is [currently] more than typical, it certainly isn't exceptional," Nemertes reports. "This type of usage will become typical over the next three to five years. The fact that Comcast's network is, by its own admission, not able to cope with such usage patterns is a clear indication that the crunch we predicted last year is beginning to occur."

Looking forward, Nemertes says that if this capacity issue is not addressed, the Internet will fracture into a tiered system where companies with the most money will pay for specialized network infrastructure that will ensure their content is delivered at higher speeds than non-favored content.

source : www.infoworld.com

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NetWitness releases free version of security software

NetWitness, a vendor of networking threat-analysis software, is offering a free version of its NetWitness Investigator package by download, the company said Monday.
NetWitness Investigator is different from most other network-scanning software in that it uses forensic tools to examine applications and changes on content on the network, as well as attacks coming from outside the network, said Amit Yoran, NetWitness' chairman and CEO. The software package gives users detailed analyses of malicious activity on their networks.

NetWitness Investigator is designed to address gaps in other cybersecurity products, he said. It can help users identify cybersecurity problems, insider attacks, and sophisticated outsider attacks, and it can help with IT audits and antifraud investigations, the company said.

The company, which split off from ManTech in 2006, has customers in the U.S. government and the financial industry, according to NetWitness, based in Herndon, Va.

NetWitness Investigator doesn't rely on a list of known threats to protect users from cybersecurity threats, said Yoran, former director of the National Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Instead, it looks for changes on the network and alerts users of possible problems
Sophisticated criminals and attackers sponsored by nations aren't going to use commonly known methods to attack their victims, Yoran said. "They're going to be using something a little more complex

Users of many cybersecurity products "are still unable to see a lot of the right information" about their networks, he added. Companies can be lulled into a false sense of security when they're using standard cybersecurity products, Yoran said.

Yoran hopes the free version will drive customers to the company's other products and services, and he sees the free download as a way to expose potential users to a new type of network monitoring, he said.

"We thought this was the right thing to do to contribute back to the community," he said.

The free version of Investigator is fully functional and ready for users to run on their networks. The free license allows up to 25 simultaneous users with a data capture of up to 1GB.

It also contains the major features of the Investigator Enterprise version, available for purchase. NetWitness has a YouTube demo page for Investigator, and the download is available on the NetWitness site.

The enterprise version of the software comes with Linux-based network appliances and is capable of remote network monitoring. The enterprise package of products includes Informer, an automated reporting engine, and Decoder, a data recording package.

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Windows 7 calculator for Vista

Windows 7 (seven) as the Younger Generation from windows the Vista was still not marketed by Microsoft. Was based on information that I could, windows 7 will be released next year (2009) in public. However for you that used SO your Vista possibly could feel mengunakan Windows 7dengan used Calculator Windows 7 to just was stylish as using Windows 7 or while waiting during the SO Window release 7 tsb. I myself have tried him and compared between calculator that was met to Windows Vista Windows 7. There was gotten by several differences feature and tampilan him. Calculator in windows 7 far more better than that was had by the vista. Pay attention to the picture was supervised this:

This was snapshot calculator that was met to Windows Vista:

And this was snapshot Calculator Windows 7:

Seen clear from tampilan him that windows 7 better. For the function and fitur-fitur him also often was gotten by the increase. One of them in calculator windows 7, we could edit again results of our counting. Then was gotten mode; programmer, statistic. In options him also was gotten; Date Calculation, Template, Unit Conversion. And we could also count easily the calculation of the issuing like the pay, and counted the loan of the pay. And that attracted him this application did not need us install to be able to be undertaken. I myself was still trying him to OS Windows Vista. It did not yet try him in Windows XP. Jika you intended to try him to OS Windows XP, don't forget review him through comment. If you wanted to try him in windows your Vista could download in link download was supervised that was given by me.

Free Download Here (Gubuk Free Download) :Windows 7 Calculator

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Internet Download Manager release version 5,15

The internet of Download Manager (IDM) already update and release the version 5,15 to 28 oct 2008. If you were still using IDM vers 5,14 already could immediately mengupdate him. Because in this new version was gotten by several improvements and optimasi so as to make the Internet of Download Manager increasingly effective to be used by us. And in the version this time the price from IDM was $30 that if you wanted to buy him officially. But if you wanted free could download in link was supervised that will be provided by me. If you wanted to know in more detail about IDM could read to my article beforehand here (the clique here) I personally suggested that you chose and used IDM as download the Manager you, apalgi to that hoby and liked download-download in the internet. Many surpluses that were owned by IDM compared with programs of Download Manager other like flashget or DAP.



The Install guidance:

• It was first that you download File Installer IDM 5,15 and file pach-a
• Afterwards you install to your OS(Operating System)
  
• After being finished,was opened file pach that was met to the folder of idmpatch5.15-www.d60pc.com
• Copy would file this inside directory where you install IDM (C:\the Files Program\the Internet of Download Manager)
• Then was opened file this and Run the program
• Finish
  

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Researchers crack WPA encryption

Two researchers have apparently cracked a part of the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption protocol.

Erik Tews and Martin Beck claim to have broken the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol in under 15 minutes. The breakthrough means that data sent from the router to the PC can be scanned, but not the other way around.

Access to this traffic could also enable a hacker to send false information to a client on the network.
The researchers developed a way to get the router to send out large volumes of traffic, thereby giving them a large data set to work with, in order to break the key using a mathematical formula the pair developed.

WPA's predecessor, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), which was developed as one of the first wireless security systems in the 1990s, is now considered almost completely unsecure as it can be hacked in just a few minutes using tools easily available on the internet.

WPA2, an advanced version of the protocol, is not susceptible to the new attack and is still considered secure.

But WPA2 is a relatively new platform and was only made mandatory in all new products from March this year, meaning that many users may have routers that do not support the standard.

Experts believe that this latest development could open the door for a host of new wireless network attacks, forcing many businesses to upgrade their systems to remain protected.

Full details about the WPA hack will be revealed and discussed next week at the PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo.

Copyright © 2008 vnunet.com

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Motorola Announces WiMax Dongle for Laptops

Motorola will offer the USBw 100 for multiple bands: The dongle, expect to ship in 2008’s fourth quarter, will allow laptop users to access WiMax networks in the most popular bands: 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz, and 3.5 GHz. The MIMO USB adapter
doesn’t have an announced price. A dongle extends the practical utility of WiMax
networks, because the vast majority of laptops won’t have WiMax built in or available as an internal option until sometime in 2009. PC Cards and ExpressCards are another option—Motorola already has a PC Card—but an increasing number of laptops eschew card-expansion slots for size, cost, and practical reasons. Few people need them these days. A dongle is not a thing of beauty, but it’s a great way to get an antenna out of a case and at an extension from a laptop.

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