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0.1 terabit/s Ethernet...
Blog While I was happily peering into holes at CERN and admiring the new data centre that'll be distributing a gigabyte per second of data worldwide, others were showing that technology's more than ready to keep up.
[November 15, 2006, 22:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A note from friend PeterI says "It's the end of 10BASE2 Ethernet! Thick Ethernet had great fat cables, usually yellow, linking the card to a special socket on the wall; thin Ethernet, aka 10BASE2, used ordinary coax cable to string cards together...
[May 21, 2004, 18:45]
A need for speed
Blog So 100Gbps ethernet is on the way. With international standards body the IEEE starting development of the proposed technology, it can only be good news, but anyone who thinks they'll see such ethernet speeds this decade is much mistaken.
[December 13, 2006, 16:35]
IEEE agrees to disagree
Blog Finally it looks there may be some agreement on the future specification for ethernet. The IEEE's Ethernet Higher Speed Study Group has now collectively decided to work on one project encompassing both speeds: 40Gbps for server and storage...
[August 28, 2007, 15:55]
Fujitsu, blades and virtualisation
Blog Fujitsu Siemens has launched a BladeEngine for its PRIMERGY Blade Servers that offers virtualisation features along with unified network communications and a combined 10 Gbit Ethernet and iSCSI SAN Mezzanine card, according to the company.
[March 19, 2008, 15:30]
Tuesday - Internet lamp day
Blog It's taken a standard fluorescent tube and built in an Ethernet controller that can turn the light on and off -- it's a common or garden wired Ethernet port, requiring an RJ-45 connector, running the very uncommon next generation of internet...
[April 11, 2003, 17:02]
Intel servers and Chinese hackers
Blog It's been very reliable in those roles, although the gigabit ethernet ports only ever really aspire to 100 Mbps speeds, the box is a trifle noisy for domestic surroundings, and I've found the web management interface to be rather clumsy and...
[March 20, 2008, 16:09]
Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Storage Link
Blog Wireless-N support, for my new laptop, and Wireless-G for the rest of the wireless devices around my house.wired ethernet, since my new laptop has a Gigabit wired ethernet adapter The WRT350N is one of the latest in the Linksys line of wireless...
[January 18, 2008, 10:04]
Tuesday
Blog Com has been doing it for a while -- the House at Roo Corner's wireless gateway sits aloof in a cupboard on the end of a powered strand of ethernet cable -- and now it's a proper standard. The idea is simple: there are spare wires in every ethernet...
[March 13, 2003, 16:35]
Various Thoughts and Experiences with Linux
Blog Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110, AMD Turion 64, ATI Radeon 200M display adapter, Broadcom wired ethernet adapter, Atheros 5000 wireless network adapter. Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, Intel Core2 Duo, 965 GM display adapter, Marvell wired ethernet adapter...
[November 13, 2008, 13:38]
Extreme Networks BD8500 edge switch modules
Blog It offers optional eight 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit ports for connection to a second, redundant management module. The 48-port Gigabit Base-T module, the BlackDiamond 8500-G48T-e, offers 48 1Gbps Ethernet ports.
[October 7, 2009, 10:48]
Data Robotics launches Drobo Elite and Drobo S
Blog Unlike the Drobo Pro, which has one Gigabit Ethernet port (plus FireWire 800 and USB 2.0), the Elite has two GbE ports for extra performance — up to 50 percent according to Data Robotics — and redundancy.
[November 23, 2009, 12:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I feel something of the same admiration combined with thank-lord-it's-not-me when I see the valiant efforts made by Intel and Cisco as they attempt to sell us gigabit Ethernet to the desktop. It is very true that GBE is ten times faster than 100...
[October 8, 2001, 15:03]
SFF PCs
Blog These are the specs: magnesium (the black one) o 800 MHz Geode o 256 MB RAM o 6 GB CF drive o Onboard graphics, audio, serial, parallel, USB & 10/100 ethernet P&P potassium (the grey one) o 300 MHz Geode o 256 MB RAM o 6 GB 2.5″ IDE drive o...
[July 11, 2008, 9:17]
Asus Eee PC S101
Blog There is Ethernet, Wi-Fi that supports Draft-N, Bluetooth. Three USB connectors, headphones and microphone connectors, an Ethernet port and a VGA connector sit around the edges. I’ve been sitting on the Eee PC S101 for rather longer than I ought to...
[January 22, 2009, 8:47]
Friday
Blog If you went to a Cisco press conference, you heard that DSL was going to be dead in the water soon and everyone would be using Ethernet via fibre. If you went to the Alcatel press conference, you heard that Ethernet as a form of urban delivery...
[November 1, 2002, 17:42]
A Few Minor Windows XP Glitches
Blog The problem with this comes up because of the fixed address (and therefore fixed default gateway and fixed name server) on the wired ethernet interface. But if I then suspend/resume Windows, it somehow decides that the wired ethernet needs to be...
[March 14, 2008, 15:03]
S6510/Vista vs. S2110/XP Professional
Blog Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet.Broadcom 440x 10/100 Ethernet It's time for a side-by-side comparison. What I want to concentrate on here is the difference between Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional.
[January 9, 2008, 13:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This has never been truer than on the A380, where the business end has desks in place of the normal control columns, instrumentation is courtesy of eight high-resolution LCD screens and the whole lot is hooked together with 10/100Mbps switched...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
Acer One Runs Vista! But Not For Long.
Blog No ethernet driver.oh no :-< Luckily there was a wireless lan driver, so I was in business. I couldn't face hunting around for the ethernet driver so I thought I'd pay a visit to windows update via the firefox windows update add on, for just a...
[December 4, 2008, 7:18]
