Allot Communications Ltd (ALLT) announced the launch of Allot MediaSwift on June 23rd. The revenue-generating network and subscriber service is designed to intelligently accelerate internet content delivery (HTTP streamed video and P2P traffic) to broadband subscribers.

MediaSwift synergizes Allot's DPI and caching abilities to provide a unified intelligent media caching solution which delivers improved quality of experience (QoE). The service is offered as an internal blade or as an external solution with Allot Service Gateway. It is also offered as a solution with other Allot platforms.

MediaSwift has already been deployed a Tier 1 operator in Asia in conjunction with Allot Service Gateway and Allot NetEnforcer. Analysis of the implementation till now shows an approximate saving of 40% in backhaul and international traffic at the installed sites, as well as a significantly enhanced subscriber experience for internet video and P2P traffic.

MediaSwift enables service providers to

I will probably have something to say on yet another week of tumultuous events and interesting comments; in particular I think that Krugman and Wolf may soon, very soon, be getting to the crux of things.

Meanwhile, I want to pass on one of Felix Salmon’s latest posts in which he treats the issue of replicability in academic research. Clearly, this is an important issue and not only one of integrity but also one of honesty and simple code-of-conduct. Felix begins …

Falsifiability and replicability are key cornerstones of any academic research. If you’re running an empirical study, and your results aren’t replicable, your study is largely worthless.

I would like to see any researcher disagree with this although I suspect that many economists may silently, or not, retort that sometimes the theory is enough in itself. Ok, that is fair enough even if I think that these endless

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