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	Turning Gaming Into Revenue Broadband adoption has proliferated the growth of online gaming. A popular means of interactive play, gaming has flourished beyond the confines of physical space where individuals plugged into one machine. Now players are able to plug into large online gaming communities wherever Internet access is available. MSOs can profit from this gaming user group by ensuring a high quality of service (QoS) and low latency for the optimal online gaming experience. [ Download Now ]
	Network Neutrality: A Broadband Wild West? With limited network resources and many competing demands by subscribers, applications, and content providers, satisfying the demands of one stakeholder means taking resources away from another. This problem, along with the greedy nature of applications and the over-subscription model of the Internet challenges network operators and the regulatory environment as they strive to maintain Internet freedoms that subscribers expect from the Industry. Learn more about how service providers can protect the network and overall subscriber experience. [ Download Now ]
	Using Network Intelligence to Provide Carrier-grade VoIP Voice Over I.P. (VoIP) represents a major opportunity for broadband service providers. Promising low costs and a variety of new features, the popularity of VoIP has consistently grown, year after year, and is finally blossoming into a full-blown contender to traditional PSTNs. As with any new technology gaining market acceptance, VoIP will face a spate of obstacles in the upcoming months and years. [ Download Now ]
	Session Management: BitTorrent Protocol Managing the Impact on Subscriber Experience The increasingly popular peer-to-peer distribution protocol, BitTorrent is designed to encourage users to upload content while they are downloading. This ensures that there are always sources of content, allowing the network to flourish. This application note explains how Sandvine session management for BitTorrent decreases upstream bandwidth without impacting the subscriber’s experience. [ Download Now ]
	Trend analysis: Spam trojans and their impact on broadband service providers The majority of spam – as much as 80 per cent of all unsolicited marketing messages sent -- now emanates from residential ISP networks and home user PCs. This is due to the proliferation of spam trojans, bits of surreptitious malware code embedded in residential subscriber PCs by worms and spyware programs. [ Download Now ]
	Worms Gobbling Broadband Profits: The financial impact of attack traffic on European service provider networks Each new worm attack brings with it a flurry of media coverage and dire predictions about the threat to information technology and the economy as a whole. But while the impact of worms and DoS attacks on enterprise networks has been extensively researched, no one has properly examined their impact on broadband service providers and their residential customers. [ Download Now ]
	Worms Gobbling Broadband Profits: The financial impact of attack traffic on North American service provider networks Each new worm attack brings with it a flurry of media coverage and dire predictions about the threat to information technology and the economy as a whole. But while the impact of worms and DoS attacks on enterprise networks has been extensively researched, no one has properly examined their impact on broadband service providers and their residential customers. [ Download Now ]
	Worm Mitigation on Broadband Networks The latest research shows that file-sharing networks have become favored vectors for worm infection, allowing worms to spread more efficiently and have greater potential of exhausting service provider’s networks. [ Download Now ]
	Regional Characteristics of P2P Though still in its relative infancy, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing marketplace is evolving at breakneck speed, with measurable distinctions now visible along geographic and even national lines. Once dominated by global phenomenon applications like Napster and KaZaA, file sharing has become a regionally differentiated, multi-application reality. [ Download Now ]