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ALSO CALLED: General Packet Radio Service
DEFINITION: General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. The higher data rates allow users to take part in video conferences and interact with multimedia Web sites and similar applications using mobile handheld devices as well as notebook computers.  … 
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Developing a Strategy Around Client Manageability
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
VIDEO: Businesses today struggle to effectively manage clients due to the increase in options available. This videocast explores the top challenges of client manageability. Learn key considerations when developing a strategy around manageability.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 05 Oct 2009


Developing a strategy around client manageability
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
PODCAST: Businesses today struggle to effectively manage clients due to the increase in options available. This podcast explores the top challenges of client manageability. Learn key considerations when developing a strategy around manageability.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 05 Oct 2009


Increasing Efficiencies in the Data Center - Making Your Wide Area Network Work for You
sponsored by Datalink Corporation
VIDEOCAST: Please join Kent Christensen, Virtualization Practice Manager, Datalink, as he analyzes and explains WAN efficiencies between data centers. In addition to the topic of transferring data over the WAN more efficiently between the primary and secondary data centers, much of the presentation will apply to small remote offices as well.
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 27 Aug 2009


Moblin Open Source Project Road Map
sponsored by Intel Corporation
VIDEO: In this Videocast, Intel Open Source Chief Strategist Dirk Hohndel provides an overview of Moblin, the Open Source project focused on building a Linux-based platform optimized for the next generation of mobile devices including Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices, and In-vehicle infotainment systems.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 03 Sep 2009


Podcast: Protecting Data on the Edge
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
PODCAST: In this expert podcast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 08 Jul 2009


Remote Branch Office Trends
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PODCAST: In this podcast, an industry expert discusses how the recession has affected branch office growth; what’s driving change in branch offices, and how to over cover the never-ending challenge of branch office security.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 17 Nov 2009


Strategic Steps for Moving to LTE
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
VIDEO: The growing success of mobile data services and the success of end user devices, such as the iPhone, are causing performance bottlenecks into our next generation mobile networks. This videocast takes a look at how LTE, the next generation of wireless networking, is dealing with these challenges while taking the user experience to the next level.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 24 Sep 2009


Wireless Broadband Solutions -- The Right Technology for Service Providers
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webinar, Ray Savage presents Motorola wireless broadband solutions designed especially for service providers. Specifically, Ray covers Motorola's Point to Multi-Point (PMP) solutions. These solutions will be compared with competing, unsynchronized technologies. Watch this webinar to learn more.
Posted: 21 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 21 Aug 2009

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GPRS DEFINITION (continued): …  GPRS is based on Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication and complements existing services such circuit-switched cellular phone connections and the Short Message Service (SMS).In theory, GPRS packet-based services cost users less than circuit-switched services since communication channels are being used on a shared-use, as-packets-are-needed basis rather than dedicated to only one user at a time. It is also easier to make applications available to mobile users because the faster data rate means that middleware currently needed to adapt applications to the slower speed of wireless systems … 
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