Nortel claims its Shasta 5000 BSN for aggregated DSL or cable offers services such as network-based firewalls, virtual private networking, and trafficengineering for several thousand subscribers over a single chassis.
Extending yellow times could also backfire by causing longer queues at lights and more rear-end crashes as motorists are surprised by the stopped traffic, said Ms. Eccles, the transportation-engineering consultant.
To best take advantage of the remarkable adoption rate of smartphones and tablets and the tremendous increase in mobile network traffic, the company brought on Gary Morton as SVP of Engineering to lead development of its new mobile platforms.
"The state is making a short-term decision to get traffic moving quickly, " said Charles Roeder, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.