* Improves network performance when connected to certain Ethernet switches that have Flow Control enabled.
Alpine's services include drilling, flow control, and production testing.
Water flow control devices are long-lasting, humane and inexpensive.
The Internet wasn't built with any built-in flow control, so there's no way to throttle back" on such attacks.
The Flowserve Corporation, a valve manufacturer, has agreed to buy a British company's flow control division for $535 million.
Like Flowserve, the Invensys unit manufactures valves and other flow control products for energy, chemical and other industries.
It is based on vortex flow control – really a large-scale version of what happens to water going down a bath plughole.
Revenue in the flow control segment, driven by strong sales of industrial valves and water and thermal controls, climbed 29percentto to $1.07 billion.
Most of the valves will go to Asia, said Patrick Decker, president of the company's valve subsidiary, Tyco Flow Control.
Fig. 18 Hysteresis of flow control valve.
