All Posts by Saad Chdhry
What is Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File Sharing and How Does it Work?
A P2P network, as understandable from its name, helps transfer files between two ordinary computers (peers); like mine and yours. P2P as a network contains thousands of computers (peers) connected to each other in an ad-hoc manner. (For an ad-hoc network the number of peers, peers adding on to the network and peers leaving the network don’t have a...
What is MNP and How is it Implemented?
Mobile Number Portability, or MNP as we all know it, allows a mobile phone user to switch to a new operator (recipient) and avail its services while still retaining his old-operator (donor) number. Number portability is always a state/regulatory-body implementation which keeps accord among the network operators participating in it. In Pakistan, all...
What is Power over Ethernet (PoE)?
Power over Ethernet or PoE as it is more commonly known; is progressively establishing its name as ‘The universal power socket’. The term didn’t quite actually moved me until a couple of weeks back, when I bought a wireless broadband connection, for which the operating company handed me over an outdoor CPE (CPEo) and dispatched a field engineering...
How Mobile to Mobile SMS and Web to SMS Works?
Today, of all the vast range of alternatives, ‘SMS’ is increasingly becoming the first choice for reaching audiences (single to single or single to multiple communications – also known as broadcast communication). There are many Web-based mobile SMS services, commonly known as ‘Web-2-SMS’ offer this service for free. Globally, the most popular...
Going green – Ways to Reduce Power Consumption in Corporate Environments
Today, not only computer density is swelling, but they are getting in use more hours per day than ever before; with paper losing the hold of everything. With energy cost soaring day by day, reducing power consumption is becoming more important than ever. Moreover, some of the today’s most pressing green-issues are pushing businesses to hunt down ways...
Will EvDO let WiMAX claim the Pakistani market ?
EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) is a 3G technology and an evolution of 2G CDMA; which can effectively be described as ‘Mobile Broadband’. The technology basically utilizes the cellular channels of the CDMA network to provide broadband internet. WiMAX on the other hand is falsely (in Pakistan) regarded as a 4G technology. The reason: Of the two standards...
