Applications may experience brief network interruptions (a few seconds) while the standby device takes over during maintenance.
Road network interruptions caused by natural disasters are becoming more frequent and their consequences are becoming of a wider range.
"My hope, and expectation, is that Google engineers who might have been a bit halfhearted about implementing censorship mandates in Google.cn could be full-throttle in coming up with ways for Google to be viewed despite any network interruptions between site and user," Mr. Zittrain wrote on his blog, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.
"My hope, and expectation, is that Google engineers who might have been a bit halfhearted about implementing censorship mandates in Google.cn could be full-throttle in coming up with ways for Google to be viewed despite any network interruptions between site and user," Mr. Zittrain wrote on his blog.
Using positioning from a GPS device and relating this to geographical maps, it is possible to foresee network interruptions or 'blind spots' (e.g., satellite connections will go down in a tunnel).
Network interruptions, call drop, navigation of the system to reach the call centre doctor, and delays in receiving prescription all deterred village doctors from using the intervention.
Motorola, Proxim and Avaya are expected to announce today that they will jointly develop technology to allow wireless communications to jump between networks without interruption.
Last time this happened — to AT&T — the weight of all those bandwidth-sucking iPhones swamped the network, causing interruptions that persist to this day.
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Gmail, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Viber, text messages: These communication networks generate huge interruption loads.
