NASA IceBridge Mission Prepares for Study of Arctic Glaciers
NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.

NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day Activities with Live Webcast
NASA EDGE, an award-winning talk show known for offbeat, funny and informative behind-the-scene stories about the space agency, will celebrate Sun-Earth Day 2010, with a live webcast about our sun and its effects on Earth.

Soyuz Landing Caps Milestone Space Station Mission
Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

NASA Awards Civil Design, Engineering and Services Contract
NASA has selected Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., to provide civil and environmental design, engineering and other professional services.

NASA Announces Systems Engineering Student Competition
NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to participate in the fourth annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition.

NASA TV Provides Coverage of One Space Station Crew's Return to Earth and Another's Journey There
NASA Television will cover the landing of two current International Space Station crew members and the launch of three upcoming station residents later in March and April.

NASA TV Media Channel Provides Clean Feeds for News Organizations
NASA Television provides a standard digital television channel as a resource for news media.

NASA Offers 'FAST' Opportunities For Zero-G Technology Testing
NASA has announced opportunities to test emerging technologies during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space.

Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement
The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation.

NASA Briefing Highlights Education Outreach During Next Shuttle Flight
NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9.

TELECOM BITS An ISP or internet service provider is the means of getting the internet to your home or office. A T3 line has adequate bandwidth to transmit frame-to-frame video and huge capacity database even over packed networks in real time. Savvis manages an integrated global IP and transport network that delivers IP and voice business solutions for large enterprises and telecommunications carriers. Companies and institutions are able to gain great advantages with their productive capacities by increasing their connection speeds to be as fast as possible. In telecommunications, fiber-optic wavelength-division multiplexing also known as WDM, is a technology which multiplexes multiple optical carrier signals on a single optical fiber strand by using different wavelengths or colours of laser light to transport different optical carrier signals. An Optical Carrier 24 Circuit or OC-24 line transmits data speeds of 1,244.16 Mbps (Mbps). XO Communications colo provides great performance and reliability while reducing your total operating costs and secure cages and/or cabinets. DSL is not generally recomended for use with Internet server applications. When used in conjunction with a static IP address, SDSL service can be used in server applications as well as for general downloading and web browsing. In the very recent past, computers were a luxury in the home and business, now for most they are a necessity. T1 Lines with twisted copper wire are slowly being upgraded to the light weight fiber optic lines. The biggest concern of CLEC networks is the potential for fiber optics. Challenges with Satellite include VoIP, video conferencing, streaming audio and video, interactive simulations or video games, etc. A Dedicated T1 is a full-duplex circuit that transmits 1.544 Mbps and receives 1.544 Mbps concurrently. A Fractional T1 line is a portion of a 24 channel circuit providing an internet connection straight from the broadband provider backbone. When you have Ethernet, Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet WAN connections, the enterprise network can be interconnected effectively no matter how remote your locations happen to be. From basic web browsing to hosting hundreds of independent websites, T1 technology has you covered. Consumers can find it a challenging choice as to which product to buy because often they will make a purchase decision only to discover that a few weeks later there is an even better option on the market. AWG is the acronym or short for American Wire Gauge. Service providers should be able to calculate ROI for you, if they say that they are unable to then choose a different partner. VARs may see prices go down as much as 40 percent on Gigabit Ethernet products in the second quarter. A Burstable T1 is a full T1 Line that is sold with measuring technology attached at the ISP's end. Based on the demands of your company and the solutions you require, you can setup a system that is as simple or as complicated as you want. A Data T1 line utilizes all channels for data, providing you with a (DIA) Dedicated Internet Access with a speed of 1.544 Mbps. If you cannot get cable or DSL then you are stuck with dial-up or satellite until the technology comes knocking at your front door. An OC48 connection is 2.5 gigabits per seconds or 4 OC12 lines and an OC192 is an equivalent to 9.6 gigabits per second or 4 OC48s. T1 Connection Pricing from T1 Line Providers, Business DSL Service, DS3 Bandwidth, Voice DS3, OC3 Lines, Point-to-Point, T1 Connections, Integrated Circuits, Bonded and Dedicated T1 Lines for all businesses. Offering consistent speeds and guaranteeing very little downtime, T1 technology is more popular than any other technology. Convergence is known as combining or converging voice, data and video onto a single telco network. Monthly pricing can vary from a couple hundred dollars to about eight hundred dollars.