Os 21 melhores lugares para se viver

Encontrei no BusinessWeek um artigo com uma lista dos melhores lugares para se viver. As cidades foram escolhidas após um rigoroso estudo de vários factores, como por exemplo a qualidade do ar, a congestão automóvel e também a segurança pessoal. Segundo o estudo, a cidade que nos dá mais qualidade de vida é Zurique na Suíça , seguida de Viena na Áustria e Genebra na Suíça.

1º Zurique , Suíça

2º Viena , Áustria

3º Genebra , Suíça

4º Vancouver , Canadá

5º Auckland , Nova Zelândia

6º Dusseldorf , Alemanha

7º Munique , Alemanha

8º Frankfurt, Alemanha

9º Bern , Suíça

10º Sydney , Austrália

11º Copenhaga , Dinamarca

12º Wellington , Nova Zelândia

13º Amsterdão , Holanda

14º Bruxelas , Bélgica

15º Toronto , Canadá

16º Berlim , Alemanha

17º Melbourne , Austrália

18º Luxemburgo , Luxemburgo

19º Ottawa , Canadá

20º Estocolmo , Suécia

21º Honolulu , EUA

Novas evidencias de um MobileMe gratuito aparecem no iOS 4.2.1 (atualizado)

Parece que a nossa teoria de um MobileMe gratuito está cada vez mais forte. O site MacRumors encontrou alguns códigos interessantes no interior do novo GM do iOS 4.2.1 que indicariam a chegada iminente de alguns serviços grátis para quem usa iPhone, iPad ou iPod touch.

As evidencias aparecem na parte relativa à nova AppleAccounts.framework , que mostra uma série de mensagens de erros relativas à supostas contas gratuitas do MobileMe.

ATUALIZAÇÃO: conseguimos o arquivo em português do sistema.

O código interno faz clara referência ao “serviço gratuito MobileMe”, não deixando praticamente mais nenhuma dúvida. Também se descobre que apenas um número limitado de dispositivos simultâneos poderão estar conectados na mesma conta gratuita (“ A quantidade máxima de contas gratuitas foi ativada neste iPhone “). Com aplicativos da App Store este número é 5.

O serviço permite sincronizar dados entre computadores e dispositivos com iOS, como o iPhone, iPad e iPod touch, sem o uso de nenhum fio. É a chamada “nuvem”, em que os dados e arquivos são transmitidos via internet. Hoje o MobileMe oferece o Buscar Meu iPhone (Find My iPhone), iDisk (disco virtual online), sincronização de Contatos/Calendários/Favoritos/Notas over-the-air (ou seja, pela internet), e galeria de fotos . Se você muda uma informação no iPhone, por exemplo, ela automaticamente aparece em todos os outros dispositivos associados à mesma conta.

Tornar gratuitas algumas destas funções poderia ser um forma de brigar com o sistema Android , que hoje faz a sincronização de dados através de serviços do Google. Neste sentido, poderíamos esperar que contatos, push de calendário, favoritos, notas, email e até mesmo o Find My iPhone se tornem gratuitos, enquanto outros serviços permaneçam a pagamento.

A Apple não confirmou nada disso e nem divulgou uma data precisa em que a novidade poderia aparecer em nossos aparelhos. A lógica, no entanto, é que venha com a liberação pública do tão esperado iOS 4.2.1, ainda com data indefinida.

Copiado de http://www.blogdoiphone.com/2010/11/novas-evidencias-de-um-mobileme-gratuito-aparecem-no-ios-4-2-1/#more-29998

Juniper looks to one-up Cisco again in core routing Juniper looks to one-up Cisco again in core routing

Juniper Networks this week will take its turn claiming innovation leadership in Internet core routing by unveiling its next-generation platform.

Cisco, Juniper play years of leapfrog in the Internet core

The Juniper T4000 boasts an industry leading 240Gbps per slot capacity, good for 4Tbps per half-rack chassis – a device optimized to handle booming video and other traffic on service provider networks.

The new router is based on the 250Gbps per slot ASICs Juniper unveiled in February , right when Cisco announced its latest generation, “forever changing the Internet” CRS-3 core router .

Juniper’s T4000  is the company’s attempt to marginalize those claims . But then, Cisco will be back eventually to stake another temporary technological leadership claim in core routing, and the process will repeat itself. Indeed, Juniper and Cisco have been playing leapfrog in Internet core routing advances since 1998.

At 8Tbps per rack, Juniper claims the T4000 has double the port density of Cisco and other competing platforms. The router features over 2 billion packet/sec of forwarding performance, and can support 192 10G Ethernet, 16 100G Ethernet and 48 40G Ethernet wire-speed ports per system.

By contrast, Cisco’s 16-slot CRS-3 is a full rack system with 4.48Tbps switching capacity and 140G per slot.

Also, Brocade just unveiled a 32-port 100G wire-speed Ethernet router that features a 15.36Tbps backplane and 480Gbps half-slot capacity, and forwarding performance of 4.8 billion packet/sec for IPv6.  But Brocade has yet to make much of a dent in the worldwide core router market, where market watcher Dell’oro finds Cisco, Juniper and Huawei accounting for 97% of total.)

Cisco says the T4000 is a response to its CRS-3, which has 30 customers and $50 million in revenue booked.

“It’s their response to us,” says Mike Capuano, Cisco’s director of service provider marketing. “They already announced the 250Gbps chipset. The CRS-3 is current shipping (whereas the T4000 won’t ship until the second half of 2011). They wanted to get the news out early to slow that (CRS-3 momentum) down.”

Slow is a word not to be associated with the T4000 or the T series as a whole, according to Juniper. Overall, the new router can support up to 384 oversubscribed 10G Ethernet ports per system; and Verizon and Internet2 have already deployed Juniper’s 100G Ethernet interfaces on the T series routers. ( Watch Evolution of the router. )

Video driving router capacity race

Driving the need for such capacity and performance, especially at 100G, is video. Two-thirds of consumer traffic on networks will soon include some form of video, Juniper says. Cisco says that 90% of Internet traffic will be video by 2014.

Using 100G, a 90-minute HDTV movie can be transmitted in one second, Juniper says. The technology also enables intelligent processing of video flows, fast channel change and retransmission to improve quality, the company says.
Internet2 is using 100G to accelerate the processing of terabytes of data for scientific research. In one such project, 100G will be used to transfer data between the twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and the Chilean Andes, allowing astronomers in both hemispheres to share data simultaneously.

But Tom Nolle, president of consultancy CIMI Corp., believes the T4000 is better positioned for metropolitan network applications than core. He says the router’s footprint, density, and power and cooling requirements are suited for intra-metro routing where traffic originates and terminates in the same metro.

“This is a strong product for mobile broadband,” Nolle says, where it can route closer to the subscriber and reduce backhaul requirements. “But I don’t think they really positioned this for the ‘metro Internet.’”

Indeed, core seems to be the target for the T4000. In the future, Juniper says it will upgrade its TX Matrix Plus router interconnect to be able to cluster four T4000s into a 16Tbps system, and also to cluster a mix of T4000s with the current generation core T1600 routers. The T1600 and previous generation T640 routers can be upgraded to the T4000 without service interruption, Juniper says.

Juniper says it has more than 6,000 T series systems deployed including over 1,100 T1600s. Two hundred and seventy-five of them are in multichassis clusters, including 50 in a TX Matrix Plus and 225 linked through the previous generation TX Matrix interconnect.

Juniper will demonstrate the new system at this week’s Supercomputing 2010 show . There, the company will demonstrate 100G Ethernet edge-to-core routing capabilities between the T4000 and the Juniper MX240 edge router. Ixia testers will pump Ethernet packets into both the T4000 and MX240 at 100G, while the T4000 and MX240 will swap packets back and forth over 10 aggregated 10G Ethernet links.

The aggregated 10G links are intended to show how service providers running 10G at the edge to the core can achieve 100G performance, Juniper officials said.

The T4000 will be available in the second half of 2011. Juniper did not disclose per port or system pricing.

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