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bdpatoday
Volume 31 | 10.05.09 |
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bdpatoday blogs, discussions, and
event calendars are enhanced by
2009 Annual Awards Banquet | NOV 12
Reserve tables or tickets today. RSVP on or before October 31.
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Missed one? In case we missed you yesterday, our newsletter archives and Acronym of the Day are updated each week for new sponsors, BDPA chapter interest groups (CIGs) and new BDPA members up to the last 100 online editions. Discover more...
Apple could sell more iPhones by ending exclusive AT&T deal
What Apple does is source of speculation, but the players are quiet.
bdpatoday--Computerworld reports whether Apple Inc. decides to continue its exclusive deal to sell the iPhone through AT&T Inc. after next year rests within the hearts and minds of the executives within both companies, and neither side is talking publicly. But that hasn't stopped analysts from conjecturing whether Apple will stay with AT&T or bring on other carriers after the exclusive deal expires in 2010.
The latest analyst's take on the issue comes from Morgan Stanley's Kathryn Huberty, who recently wrote that Apple's handset market share in the U.S. could more than double, from the current 5% to 12%, if it opened sales of the iPhone through more carriers, such as Verizon Wireless.
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QoS
On the Internet and in other networks, QoS (Quality of Service) is the idea that transmission rates, error rates, and other characteristics can be measured, improved, and, to some extent, guaranteed in advance. QoS is of particular concern for the continuous transmission of high-bandwidth video and multimedia information. Transmitting this kind of content dependably is difficult in public networks using ordinary "best effort" protocols.
Using the Internet's Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), packets passing through a gateway host can be expedited based on policy and reservation criteria arranged in advance. Using ATM, which also lets a company or user preselect a level of quality in terms of service, QoS can be measured and guaranteed in terms of the average delay at a gateway, the variation in delay in a group of cells (cells are 53-byte transmission units), cell losses, and the transmission error rate.
The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) is a relatively new protocol that allows router and layer 3 switches to get QoS policy information from the network policy server.
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Tech Target
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2009 Annual Scholarship & Awards Banquet
November 12, 6-9 PM
Washington Navy Yard
Conference Center
Keynote: Cynthia Miller
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
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NROTC Scholarships
now on deck @ BDPA!
Cover story in bdpatoday
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FALL 2009 Print Edition
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About BDPA-DC
NBDPA's Washington, D.C. Chapter was founded in 1978 by Norman Mays. It was incorporated in 1981 as a domestic not-for-profit corporation in the District of Columbia. In February of 1988, Black Data Processing Associates of Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area (BDPA-DC) became an IRS Section 501(c)(3) Public Charity. Today, BDPA-DC provides professional development services for its members and stakeholders in direct support of local and regional STEM (Science. Technology. Engineering. Math) initiatives. Towards this end, BDPA-DC partners with BDPA Baltimore, BDPA Northern Virginia, and BDPA Richmond to support members and stakeholders within the National Capital Region (NCR) and the Baltimore-Richmond Corridor. BDPA-DC also serves NBDPA, BDPA Chapters and Chapter Interest Groups (CIGs) as a federal news bureau, government relations liaison, and bdpatoday newsletter clearinghouse for emerging NBDPA Chapters.
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