School centralises network control

The East Brunswick School District (EBSD) of New Jersey has replaced its existing IT network in an effort to build in affordable redundancy and centralised control, reports the Journal.

The new system provides wireless access to all 11 district schools from a single point in the district's administration building.

"We wanted an architecture that would operate across the district without high additional costs per school," said Tinos Rousos, senior network manager at EBSD.

Cloud computing and -as-a-service models have taken hold in enterprise networking, and more than a few companies are looking to make the cloud model the ultimate in networking channel services plays, says CRN.

Pareto Networks is one of them, and distributed networks are firmly in its sights.

"The pain point we continue to see is the challenge of how complex, time consuming and costly it is to manage, operate and deploy distributed networks," said Michael Peachey, vice-president of marketing and product management.

The Internet provider networking group Xtera Communication has released the newest version of FlowOS to optimise the use of network traffic management, writes Trend.

According to the company officials, FlowOS 3.4 alongside with its partner, FlowReport 3.4, signify a best performing and feature-enhanced offering brought about by Xtera.

Compared to the previous versions, FlowOS 3.4 distinguishes more than hundreds of Layer 4 to Layer 7 procedures, which is more than twice previous capacity.