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HP-UX to gain 10Gbps networking capability
News HP has signed a deal to sell network adapters from start-up S2io that the companies say can transfer data 10 times faster than today's widespread standard. S2io's Xframe adapters can transfer data at 10Gbps and will be available on HP-UX, the...
[December 6, 2004, 8:20]
Analysis of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Using Hardware Engine for Performance Tuning on Long Fat-Pipe Network
White Papers With the rapid progress of network technology, several OC-192c lines are settled across the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean and now 10Gbps network is ready for round-the-world communication. However, it is difficult to use the bandwidth...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
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]
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]
Silicon-based optics to reach market 'in two years'
News Luxtera, a start-up with a fairly strong silicon pedigree, says it will marry fast optical communications to cheap silicon manufacturing in about two years, sooner than competitors. The Carlsbad, California-based company announced on Monday that it...
[March 29, 2005, 17:20]
InfiniBand gets storage networking boost
News InfiniBand, a high-speed communication technology, has been extended to speak the language of iSCSI networked storage systems. The addition, called iSER, gives a high-end boost to the lower-end iSCSI technology.
[October 9, 2006, 9:35]
Ethernet alliance formed
News Technology companies including Sun, 3Com, Broadcom and Samsung have formed a marketing group that will work to promote and educate people about emerging Ethernet technologies. The main purpose of the group, called the Ethernet Alliance, is to serve...
[January 11, 2006, 15:05]
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]
Ten Gigabit Ethernet standard approved
News The standards board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) on Thursday ratified 802.3ae, a version of Ethernet which runs at 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps). The technology is already well proven, with a major demonstration by...
[June 13, 2002, 16:11]
Applied Micro leads chip-speed war
News Communications chipmaker Applied Micro Circuits claimed front-runner status among its major rivals on Monday, saying it has started shipping the next wave of fast chips for telecom gear. Applied Micro) has a lead here, and in some cases it's a big...
[March 26, 2002, 8:50]
Researchers' protocol denies DoS attacks
News Researchers have devised a way to filter out denial-of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, to improve security on government, commercial and educational systems. Methods exist for configuring a network to filter...
[October 1, 2009, 9:48]
N+I: 3Com fleshes out LAN-building plan
News Network giant 3Com has released the first components of what it describes as its alternative way to build local area networks (LANs). With this and its 10 Gigabit Ethernet plans, the company plans to overtake Cisco in some areas of the networking...
[May 10, 2002, 11:13]
InfiniBand sequel is slower but cheaper
News Seeking a better way to make high-end database servers from low-end parts, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and others have begun working on a cheaper alternative to the InfiniBand high-speed networking technology.
[May 6, 2003, 9:32]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News Cutting-edge particle physics is being used to hone new technology that will eventually make its way into enterprises. The Cern nuclear-physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, is helping the technology industry refine the multicore processors...
[October 20, 2008, 12:43]
IBM revs up network chip
News IBM next week will introduce a new chip that it hopes will become the heart of computer networks. The PowerPRS 64Gu chip will be used in network switches -- devices used to direct data on a computer network.
[September 6, 2002, 16:53]
Photos: Inside Cisco's European datacentre
News This anonymous building, tucked away in a side street close to Dell's Amsterdam office, is Cisco's European datacentre. Like any company, Cisco faces many of the usual challenges in running a datacentre, including constant pressure to reduce budget...
[April 10, 2006, 10:10]
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]
Super-speed Ethernet start-up wins IBM backing
News IBM plans to begin selling Ethernet adapters from Neterion on Monday, the most significant partner thus far for a start-up whose products transfer data at 10Gbps. Big Blue will sell the products under its own name for use in its higher-end Intel...
[October 31, 2005, 8:30]
Cisco reaches high with new switches
News Cisco launched a range of new storage products on Monday, including a top-end switch with 528 ports which the company claims is the largest capacity storage switch on the market. Fully configured, the top-end MDS 9513 switch will carry 528 ports...
[April 4, 2006, 16:45]
Powerful Fixed, Wireless and Unified Communications Solution Underpins Europe's Largest 'super' Hospital
White Papers National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in the UK today are having to become more and more like their private sector cousins. University Hospitals needed network design for a new University Hospital to offer leading-edge care through state-of-the...
[November 11, 2008, 23:00]
