INFRASTRUCTURE CONCESSION CONTRACTS: AN INTRODUCTION #2/July 08 What is infrastructure concession contract? What are the advantages and disadvantages of concession contracts? This paper addresses these two questions. Also‚ it outlines the basics of infrastructure concession contracts. I. Introduction Ownership of public assets is a sensitive issue for all governments. However‚ budgetary shortfalls as well as the repeated failure of governments all over the world to maintain these assets have
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American Infrastructure-Now or Never Because of the poor state of the economy the care American infrastructure has been ignored‚ which poses a danger to everyone that come in contact with it. Recent disasters have reminded many how important the care of American infrastructure is. America’s infrastructure gets a grade of “D” from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)‚ which recommends that we spend $2.2 trillion on repairs and maintenance. “Much of America is held together by Scotch tape
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Executive Summary 3 Site Survey 4 WLAN Security 5 Beta Testing 7 Equipment 8 Budget 12 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 14 Appendix A: TECHNICAL TERMS 15 Executive Summary The Athletes Shack (TAS) is a chain of sporting goods stores that is looking into adding a wireless network (WLAN) to their current network. TAS has 10 retail distribution stores in the area and would like all the stores to be able to see live inventory suing mobile devices. The management team at Athletes Shack has realized
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DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ASSIGNMENT AND CAT QUESTIONS QUESTION 1 a) Give four examples of resources that may be shared in a distributed system.( 4marks) Possible examples are: hardware resources (disk space‚ printers‚ memory‚ CPU power‚ etc) and data/software resources (distributed objects‚ web-pages‚ Databases‚). b) What is the role of middleware in a distributed system? To enhance the distribution transparency that is missing in network operating systems. In other
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Public-Key Infrastructure RFC 2822 (Internet Security Glossary) defines public-key infrastructure (PKI) as the set of hardware‚ software‚ people‚ policies‚ and procedures needed to create‚ manage‚ store‚ distribute‚ and revoke digital certificates based on asymmetric cryptography. The principal objective for developing a PKI is to enable secure‚ convenient‚ and efficient acquisition of public keys. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Public Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX) working group has
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Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) TS5130 System Development Theory and Practice June 16‚ 2007 Table of Contents Purpose and Function: 7 How PKI Works: 9 Table of Figures Figure 1: Required Key and Certificate Management Services 8 Figure 2: How PKI Works 10 Abstract This paper is intended to
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| | |CMGT/554 Version 2 | | |IT Infrastructure | Copyright © 2010‚ 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course focuses on the managerial level of knowledge and terminology for telecommunications
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1- A) Terminal building The terminal building is one of the most important infrastructures of an airport. Each year‚ so many people travel through airports. The terminal building provides the necessary services to the passengers that make their transition between airside and landside very comfortable. Within the terminal building‚ many facilities are provided to passengers such as‚ retail shopping‚ restaurants and baggage processing. Inside the terminal‚ there are facilities that make the passengers
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Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a security architecture that has been introduced to provide an increasedlevel of confidence for exchanging information over an increasingly insecure Internet. PKI may involve the use of methods‚ technologies and techniques that together provide a secure infrastructure. PKI involves the use of a public key and private key pair for authentication and proof of content. A PKI infrastructure is expected to offer its users the following
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ANSAworks 95 Healthcare and Distributed Systems Technology Francesco FEDELE Marketing Manager GESI Srl Via Rodi‚ 32 00124 Rome - ITALY Tel. + 39 6 3725278 - 3729675 Fax + 39 6 3252336 eMail: mc0077@mclink.it Cambridge - UK 3 April 1995 The Hospital Information System The healthcare organisational structure in all European countries is naturally distributed‚ being a geographical spread of centres at different levels of complexity: from the general hospitals down to individual GPs
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