Flow Heater: 1-pass And 2-pass. divx 5. The popular "DivX" MPEG-4-Codec takes on a professional look with a new start-up, new developers and marketing, plus a cool Web site and a product that millions are using. On the streets they call it the "MP3 of video."...

Modulating Power Flow. wireless power powermat. After years of promises, wireless electricity will finally arrive this year. How long before we ditch that last wire for good?. Identifying devices and monitoring and modulating the power flow are key to dealing...

disabling flow control, or forget to make sure it's disabled, users connected to that uplink might experience elevated ping times (increased latency or lag) as the load on the port increases and not just when it's saturated! On our Procurve 2824 switch, flow...

Westell router (or lack thereof) that pretty much kills the AV Phoneline data flow. But things started right up again when I unplugged the modem at around the 1 minute mark. But DSL isn't the only thing that can put a crimp in the AV Phoneline's data flow....

maker Ubicom. StreamEngine uses a patent-pending algorithm ("Intelligent Stream Handling") that Ubicom says automatically manages the flow of traffic going to the Internet, without the need for user configuration. The blurb on Ubicom's site also says Intelligent...

or switches using straight-through cabling; this eliminates the need to hunt down special crossover cables. The 8508T also features half- and full-duplex speeds, along with flow control to prevent packet loss under heavy load. This complements the device's...

on the "enterprise" market, and usually aimed at the data center manager. Since gigabit Ethernet provides a 10 times larger "pipe" for data flow than 100Base-T, the natural first applications were at the points of highest bandwidth need. Server-to-server, switch-to-switch,...

Computex 2004 Report: The Networking View. computex 2004 report. All wisdom may flow from above, but most IT products come in one way or another from Taiwan. The Computex show in Taipei is where the IT gear companies that you know and love (or loathe) come...

the GS5's QoS (Quality of Service) controls. QoS is a term that we're seeing more and more lately, due to the growing popularity of applications like VoIP and streaming video that care about how packets are treated as they flow across the network. Think of...

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