Internet Insight: Satellites Hit New Orbit
Beam it up, Scotty. Thats what a growing number of IT managers are saying as they turn to satellite communications to carry enterprise data traffic. These executives are discovering that broadband IP satellite services are easier to deploy and manage and more secure than terrestrial links.Satellite data networks are hardly new; some large companies have relied on them for...
Internet Insight: Getting Data Up and Down
Compared with terrestrial communications, satellite links can be tricky to manage. For instance, satellite service providers must deal with the weather. Heavy rain or snow can slow transmissions and increase the number of dropped packets. Fortunately, new algorithms can minimize weather problems.Another problem is distance. A signal travels from a users desktop to a network switch to a very...
Internet Insight: Right Way to Build Dynamic Content
Once a company decides to distribute its dynamic content, it has to put mechanisms in place to ensure proper page creation. The ESI specification includes features to help ensure that page information is updated correctly.The markup language starts off by outlining how each Web page should be composed. Each file is subject to its own configuration and control, its...
Internet Insight: ESI Does It
Call it a Cache-22. Dynamic Web content is emerging as a key to successful e-business sites. But that fluid information can lead to heavy network traffic, slowing application servers to a crawl and, in turn, bringing an e-business to its knees.Enter ESI (Edge Side Includes), a new caching standard that enables developers to craft applications that lower costs and...
Internet Insight: A Little Slice of the UDDI Pie
Sometimes, funny things happen to a technology on the way to becoming the next big thing. Take UDDI. The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration standard, which hit the scene in September 2000 amid much hoopla, was created to solve the connectivity problems of big, public, business-to-business exchanges. But demand for those exchanges has been tepid, and, instead, UDDI has...
Internet Insight: UDDI: Two Versions Down, One to Go
Putting a new infrastructure in place so that enterprises can exchange Web services data via the Internet is a complex process, so the UDDI Project, which now has some 300 member companies, separated the work on its standard into three phases. Versions 1 and 2 of the specification are finished; Version 3 is expected to be wrapped up this...