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Ofcom and fibre optics for rural telephone connections
Talkback In other countries fibre optis is always put in with new housing projects and old copper wiring is or has been replaced with fibre when ever work has to be done on copper wiring - is it not time that this country stopped thinking that we have the...
[February 15, 2007, 10:03]
Foundry takes Gigabit Ethernet to next level
News Many places already have the wiring in place," said Foundry user David Parter, associate director of the computer systems laboratory at the University of Wisconsin. Foundry rounded out its new line of LAN switches with a new wiring closet switch...
[August 19, 1999, 12:16]
'upto' 20Mbps v 'upto' 8Mbps
Talkback BT: In the meantime unused cables in wiring to streets should be ultilised to offer certain customers faster broadband connections over copper , by combining cores - particularly in strategic towns. It depends on lots of factors, quality of line...
[June 10, 2009, 22:18]
Ofcom: Copper can support high-speed broadband
News For instance, such technology may necessitate better wiring in houses to handle the higher frequencies involved, requiring the work of engineers. An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the...
[August 21, 2008, 17:49]
Intel gets optical with fibre
News Intel's Components Research Lab is working on ways to replace copper wiring between motherboards and chips inside computers with faster, more energy-efficient optical fibre. We are going to start to have trouble [with copper interconnections] at 10...
[March 1, 2004, 14:25]
Telstra Improves Efficiency With Simplified Development Environment
White Papers Telstra's data centers are responsible for managing the network records of the company's sprawling resources, which include everything from old copper wiring to the latest high-density optical fiber cables, cable, and satellite links.
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
Ridiculous
Talkback BT played it's final card after virgin announced the new 50 Mbit Fibre optic service, a true 8 Mbit Service is already a hard achievement let a long 20, this is not only due to noise in copper telephone lines and old wiring/equipment.it's also the...
[June 4, 2009, 9:50]
Oftel unveils controversial ADSL plans
News The excitingly-titled "Access Network Facilities" is the first time the telecoms watchdog has issued concrete guidelines for allowing competitive access to British Telecom's (quote: BT) local copper wiring.
[August 1, 2000, 12:25]
A guide to VoIP telephony review
Reviews The legacy of this system creates a huge degree of physical inertia to change: although all major telephone backbones between exchanges are now digital and carried by fibre optic, microwave and satellite links, the local loops between the...
[July 26, 2006, 9:55]
Lack of 'killer app' stalling fibre rollout
News All-IP next-generation networks (NGNs) are being rolled out in the UK — such as 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 known as "next-generation access...
[November 22, 2007, 14:04]
Intel claims quantum leap in fibre-optic detectors
News If you run fibre, you need a device that breaks it down to the inside wiring, to the copper, and those devices are maybe a few hundred dollars," Winn said. Photodetectors — used in a range of applications, such as fibre-optic communications, image...
[December 8, 2008, 10:33]
News Schmooze: Chips learn to communicate
News It does all this using copper and coaxial wiring, which are obsolete, and CAT5e wiring, which will soon be made obsolete by wireless LANs. More recently, BT has begun promoting what it calls the Digital Home to people who have work done on their...
[March 1, 2002, 16:36]
BT stretches ADSL to reach a million more
News BT's researchers have found that the condition of a home or business's internal wiring becomes a more important factor for those over the 6km limit. Upgrading this wiring could help to make ADSL work but the complication is that BT doesn't own this...
[April 19, 2004, 12:55]
Wiring London's flagship
News The exceptions are the top two of City Hall's nine floors, which are smaller - both are fed from the seventh floor wiring closets. ZDNet is willing to bet that on at least one occasion, Mr Beddard dreamt that he was in the wiring closet in his...
[November 25, 2002, 11:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Am thinking of wiring up a set of farmhouses and renting them out: you can take time away from the office, enjoy the delights of bucolic living and still get some work done. NTT, the Japanese telephone company, is deploying its Pi Fibre To The Home...
[August 9, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Am thinking of wiring up a set of farmhouses and renting them out: you can take time away from the office, enjoy the delights of bucolic living and still get some work done. NTT, the Japanese telephone company, is deploying its Pi Fibre To The Home...
[August 9, 1997, 8:00]
Power on Ethernet gives networks a voice
News Combined switch-and-power units allow users to centralise power management in the wiring closet, he said. Foundry will also announce a copper/fibre Gigabit switch, the FastIron Edge 12GCF, a 1 1/2 U high switch that allows any combination of copper...
[March 11, 2003, 13:50]
Intel looks to fibre-optics to speed chips
News Over the longer term, possibly 10 years, optical interconnects could also work their way into processors themselves, where copper wiring is just starting to become standard. Optical interconnects are bound to cost more than copper wiring because of...
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
UltraSparc III to break 1GHz barrier
News The chip shows several improvements over its predecessors, in part because of improvements at the Texas Instruments factory where the CPUs are built using copper wiring technology, Sun said. Sun Microsystems will refresh its workstation lineup with...
[November 20, 2001, 11:34]
IBM's new chips slash power consumption
News Combined with 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 uses one-tenth as much power as predecessors.
[October 12, 2001, 9:25]
