Monday, June 28, 2004

Hardware handles XML and security When a technology that started out as disruptive and then is successful in its market penetration, new solutions emerge to solve the problems of success.  The use of XML as a represetation of documents in its obese form factor that adds overhead to otherwise short messages has swept business and government so well that its obesity is becoming a problem for networks.  Enter the XML hardware applicances that create what amounts to XML-based firewalls, and do validation on SOAP messages and other nifty things to speed processing.  Very new technologies are being introduced by companies like Tarari, an Intel spin-off, who have invented radical new ways to process XML messages.  DataPower claims it's device does the work of 10 servers.  Sarvega is supposed to announce a gigabit router optimized for XML processing.  It may be that these breakthrough technologies will make the overhead of complex XML schema handling a trivial problem. 10:09:16 PM    comment []

Mesh networking with WiFi Milpitas, CA is creating a 10 square mile Wi-Fi broadband network to put live video feeds and other funcitonality into police and fire vehicles.  Using a mesh architecture, the company providing the network claims to have cut down the interference problems and improving processing.  This is not an insignificant installation,  powering a town of 63,000 with public safety broadband access anywhere in the town ultimately.  This kind of networking is becoming more the favorite answer to the death of CDPD.  Read the news release in Government Technology. 9:38:47 PM    comment []

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