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Intel gets optical with fibre

...PC. Intel's Components Research Lab is working on ways to replace copper wiring between motherboards and chips inside computers with faster, more energy-efficient... Read more

1 March, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

HP-UX to gain 10Gbps networking capability

...while before the speed becomes widespread, due to the limitations of standard copper wiring Read more

6 December, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Lack of 'killer app' stalling fibre rollout

...BT's 21CN — but NGNs do not solve the problem of legacy copper wiring at street level, from exchanges to cabinets and homes — an issue... Read more

22 November, 2007 by Natasha Lomas

A guide to VoIP telephony

...the home or business still use the many miles of existing ‘analogue’ copper wiring. Broadband technology exploits the maximum possible capacity of the old wiring... Read more

26 July, 2006 by Terry Relph Knight

Why you should care about WiMax

...vast swathes of South-East Asia and Africa. Why invest billions in copper wiring when you can skip to the wireless generation for a lower... Read more

24 May, 2006 by David Meyer

Old PCs go to jail

...donation, or they will be "mined" for materials including glass, plastics and copper wiring. "We believe we are only part of the solution for the... Read more

16 February, 2002 by Jonathan Skillings

USB 2.0 to get Intel boost

...data over longer distances, using fiber-optic cables as well as traditional copper wiring. See the Hardware News Section for the latest update on everything... Read more

25 January, 2002 by Richard Shim

UltraSparc III to break 1GHz barrier

...improvements at the Texas Instruments factory where the CPUs are built using copper wiring technology, Sun said. In addition, better system performance comes through an... Read more

20 November, 2001 by Stephen Shankland

Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips

The chipmaker is checking out a new approach to building processors that uses fibre-optics to connect components, and even eventually to replace copper or aluminium wires inside chips Read more

19 October, 2001 by John G.Spooner

IBM's new chips slash power consumption

...existing power-management features such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology and copper wiring, the new on-off features could lead to a chip that... Read more

12 October, 2001 by Michael Kanellos

New FireWire forges ahead at double speed

...double the speed of today's FireWire using the same type of copper wiring, the standard is expected to eventually allow speeds of up to... Read more

24 May, 2001 by Ian Fried

Why 2Wire may be the one solution for home networking

...arrives on the same wires as a traditional voice line. This shared copper wiring isn't the same as voice-over-DSL, which actually uses... Read more

9 January, 2001 by David Coursey

Oftel unveils controversial ADSL plans

...guidelines for allowing competitive access to British Telecom's (quote: BT) local copper wiring. (See the document's full text here.) However, an EC draft... Read more

1 August, 2000 by Matthew Broersma
Strata CIX VoIP Business Communication System

Strata CIX VoIP Business Communication System

...IP telephones in the 12 lower campus buildings. The Strata CIX670 via copper wiring, while lower campus buildings are connected via the wireless and fiber... Read more

12 October, 2008
Wireless Mesh Networking by Using WiBorne WAP Series

Wireless Mesh Networking by Using WiBorne WAP Series

...then there are the laborious tasks of pulling, terminating and testing the copper wiring or fiber optic cabling. With all the work involved, it should... Read more

20 September, 2008

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