June 5, 2007

WAN Day 2: Jacob Zuma addresses delegates [video]

By Simone Puterman in WAN | 3 comments

Jacob Zuma shared lunch, thoughts and a few laughs with a group of WAN and WEF delegates this afternoon. It was easily one of today’s highlights.

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wan optimizers compared | Dec 19, 2008 | Reply

John sums up telepresence from a network perspective, “Telepresence is an interactive real- time application, which means it is delay sensitive, loss sensitive and jitter sensitive. This sounds familiar: it is just like VoIP, with the one difference being that it has huge bandwidth requirements.” It’s that last part that makes things more difficult. No form of QoS can allocate bandwidth that doesn’t exist and it doesn’t have provisions to force the application to downscale the experience based on realtime metrics. …