BT Wholesale should know this afternoon whether it has been able to fix a problem that has dogged an unknown number of ADSL users for more than 10 days.
On September 12 BT began an upgrade to Alcatel DSLAMS in 306 of its local exchanges. Almost immediately there were reports that some end users lost their connections and were unable to access the service. In response, BT Wholesale suspended the upgrade until the problem could be identified and fixed.
Alcatel found that the problem affected at least five types of modems and work was carried out during the weekend to try and sort it out. A spokesman for BT Wholesale said that the results of that should be known shortly. He played down the scale of the problem insisting that that less than 1,000 people were affected by the glitch.
One of those is security consultant and former boss of ISP CloudNine Emeric Miszti. He's been without his broadband service for almost two weeks and is furious at BT's failure to resolve the problem
Having watched the failed upgrade unfold he believes those hit far exceeds BT's own estimate. This interruption to the service comes as the monster telco is spending £33m over the next couple of weeks trying to get people to sign up to broadband
News source: The Reg
On September 12 BT began an upgrade to Alcatel DSLAMS in 306 of its local exchanges. Almost immediately there were reports that some end users lost their connections and were unable to access the service. In response, BT Wholesale suspended the upgrade until the problem could be identified and fixed.
Alcatel found that the problem affected at least five types of modems and work was carried out during the weekend to try and sort it out. A spokesman for BT Wholesale said that the results of that should be known shortly. He played down the scale of the problem insisting that that less than 1,000 people were affected by the glitch.
One of those is security consultant and former boss of ISP CloudNine Emeric Miszti. He's been without his broadband service for almost two weeks and is furious at BT's failure to resolve the problem
Having watched the failed upgrade unfold he believes those hit far exceeds BT's own estimate. This interruption to the service comes as the monster telco is spending £33m over the next couple of weeks trying to get people to sign up to broadband
News source: The Reg
The new products extend Macromedia's technology beyond its own ColdFusion MX and JRun platforms to third-party application severs, including IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic Server, said David Gruber, Macromedia senior product marketing manager for Flash Remoting MX, in Newton, Mass.
"What's new is we have previously shipped this technology as part of our own server technology," and now, Macromedia is making Flash usable directly with .Net and Java technologies, Gruber said.
Developers can access Web application services such as EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), .Net components, Macromedia ColdFusion components, or SOAP-based Web services through the use of four commands.
"Flash technology brings a rich Windows-like experience inside the context of a browser," Gruber said.
Macromedia Flash Remoting MX for .Net supports ASP.Net pages, ADO.Net objects, DLLs, Assemblies, and Web services. The Java version supports Java Objects, Java Beans, and J2EE resources including Java classes, EJBs, and JMX beans.
Macromedia now can connect to legacy applications that were built in Java but did not support Flash, Gruber said.
Macromedia Flash Remoting MX also includes new capabilities for record set handling and databinding to simplify development.
An early user of Macromedia Flash Routing MX for Java said the product had eliminated a lot of legwork as far as code writing.
"We love it for doing applications that have Flash interfaces. It definitely streamlines a lot of development," said Alon Salant, principal at Carbon Five, a San Francisco developer of custom J2EE applications.
Carbon Five builds a services-based architecture and uses Flash Remoting to assemble a series of business functionalities, Salant said.
Before Flash Remoting, Carbon Five built solutions that sent objects serialized as XML, and then sent them to Flash. Flash Remoting MX for Java "lets you talk to objects between Flash and the server, which is great," said Salant.
Carbon Five did have to build a utility as a translator for passing objects between Flash and the application server, Salant said. But this development was a one-time-only necessity, he added.
Salant also cautioned that developers need to be aware of security concerns.
"What you're essentially doing is you're exposing objects on the server to the outside world," Salant said. "You need to make sure that you actually want to be exposing services," and determine whether there should be limitations on access, he said.
The new products are available on Monday and cost $999 per processor. The functionality also is available natively in Macromedia ColdFusion MX and JRun 4.
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