100Gbps Ethernet is coming
News Technical experts have started to develop a new standard for Ethernet which will run at 100Gbps. The advancement is a tenfold increase on the highest Ethernet speeds possible today. Gbps Ethernet is used across wide area networks and a limited...
[December 12, 2006, 13:02]
Juniper revs Ethernet to 100Gbps
News Juniper Networks has announced the industry's first 100Gbps Ethernet router interface card. The networking company unveiled the 100Gbps Ethernet interface on Monday. The card will be sold as part of Juniper's T1600 core router, which is a high...
[June 9, 2009, 12:41]
Cisco ramps edge routers up to 100Gbps
News Cisco has launched a new single-slot 16-port 10Gb Ethernet line card for its ASR9000 edge router, typically used by service providers such as Deutsche Telekom and Verizon Wireless. According to Cisco, at 10Gbps per port the new 10GE line card...
[August 25, 2009, 17:41]
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News Scientists will collaborate with as-yet-unnamed hardware and software vendors to develop a prototype 100Gbps Ethernet network, which will be used to connect US Department of Energy supercomputer centres.
[August 12, 2009, 16:50]
A need for speed
Blog So 100Gbps ethernet is on the way. Well, kind of. 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...
[December 13, 2006, 16:35]
Cloud pushing telecoms into bandwidth boost
News Cloud computing and net neutrality are becoming major factors in forcing telecoms operators to upgrade their core network bandwidth, according to an industry analyst. In turn, top industry players such as Nortel, Cisco and Juniper Networks are...
[June 9, 2009, 16:36]
IEEE agrees to disagree
Blog Finally it looks there may be some agreement on the future specification for ethernet. Even if the agreement is an agreement to disagree. I reported back in June that the international standards body, the IEEE, was at internal loggerheads on...
[August 28, 2007, 15:55]
IEEE infighting may derail Ethernet development
News Squabbling within the international IT standards body IEEE looks set to derail efforts to clarify the next Ethernet standard. A group within the standards body, which was set up to define the evolution of Ethernet, has succumbed to infighting, and...
[June 19, 2007, 18:07]
Akamai defends web apps in the cloud
News Akamai has launched a cloud-based firewall service for web applications, designed to defend datacentres against the growing complexity and scale of application-layer attacks. The company's Web Application Firewall (WAF) managed service, introduced...
[December 15, 2009, 16:20]
Intel's Light Peak aims to replace today's cables
News Intel on Wednesday unveiled technology called Light Peak that it hopes ultimately will replace the profusion of different cables sprouting from today's PCs with a single type of fibre-optic link. Dadi Perlmutter, the newly promoted co-general...
[September 24, 2009, 9:44]
Alcatel-Lucent breaks data-speed record
News A new speed record has been set by Alcatel-Lucent, by sending data over a fibre-optic network at 25.6 terabits per second. The equipment vendor detailed the achievement, which used a single fibre strand, on Wednesday in a "post deadline" paper...
[March 29, 2007, 12:35]
Asia restores communications after quake
News More network connections and internet services have been restored as businesses return to work after the year-end and new-year holidays. Internet communications across Asia, including Japan, China and Korea, suffered a complete blackout or severe...
[January 4, 2007, 8:35]
Faster Ethernet round the corner
News A high-speed Ethernet standard originally developed to run over fibre networks could eventually run over cheap copper cabling if the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) adopts a new standards effort for 10Gbps Ethernet at its...
[October 15, 2002, 10:29]
Intel brings Nehalem to notebooks
News Intel has moved its latest desktop and server chip architecture to the laptop with the announcement of its 45nm Core i7 mobile processor, based on its new Nehalem micro-architecture. Officially launched at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco...
[September 24, 2009, 9:00]
Sun to shed light on supercomputing
News Sun is looking to optical communications to carry out a radical supercomputer redesign. The server specialist will use technology from Luxtera, a 40-person start-up based to connect chips directly via optical links, the companies plan to announce...
[November 14, 2005, 8:35]
BBC's iPlayer numbers revealed
News During peak hours, BBC iPlayer pumps out 12GB of data every second, and seven petabytes (PB) of data every month. It is insanely popular on Apple's iPhone — but mostly after midnight — and the next version of iPlayer will land this year with some...
[May 11, 2009, 12:06]
Geekender Gallery: IDF 2009
News The Intel Developer Forum always has a theme. This year, it's scribbles. Whiteboards throughout the event invite passing engineers and others to write down their ideas, predictions, wishes and observations — as demonstrated by a giant engineer...
[September 25, 2009, 17:04]
Will some one from Cisco...
Talkback """"The company said that "by 2013, the sum of all forms of video such as TV, video on demand, internet video and peer-to-peer will exceed 90 percent of global consumer traffic.fixed-network and mobile data combined is expected to grow 66-fold in...
[August 25, 2009, 19:55]
