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Fibre Optic To Dominate EU Broadband Market By 2010
News ADSL is only a transitory technology that will be overtaken by fibre optic solutions within 10 years, according to the European Commission. ADSL will make up 28 percent of the home surfing market -- down from its peak of 37 percent -- with 20...
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
Fibre Channel Write Acceleration
White Papers The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provide a complete set of intelligent storage services that include Fibre Channel Write Acceleration (FC-WA), which can dramatically improve the number of Small Computer System...
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
Networks '98: Fibre Channel Faster For Mass Storage
News A more flexible and powerful solution than systems like UltraSCSI, Fibre channel offers speeds of 100MByte/s (fast Ethernet is 100Mbit/s - an order of magnitude slower) coupled with the ability to have 'nodes' separatd by kilometres, rather than...
[June 25, 1998, 13:43]
Fibre Channel And Tape Libraries Made For Each Other
White Papers This white paper discusses how Fibre Channel technology will change backup strategies and provide improved functionality of automated tape libraries. Two important trends are converging in the data storage market: the emergence of Fibre Channel...
[November 9, 2003, 23:00]
Fibre Access Essential Says Industry Group
News High-speed fibre access must be rolled out across the UK if the country is to avoid falling behind the rest of the world in the broadband stakes, a key industry body has warned. A report by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) — which includes...
[April 16, 2007, 13:18]
Fibre Channel Adapter On-board Hub
White Papers VMETRO’s Fibre Channel adapters, VMFC 2100/2250, utilize an on-board hub - the “Omni-Port”. The Omni-Port is a versatile device that is often not well understood. Its complexity is well hidden and normally the user does not need to think about the...
[April 28, 2004, 0:00]
Fibre Channel Competitor Wins Approval
News The major competitor for iSCSI is the existing Fibre Channel protocol, which offers high performance and is well-established in the marketplace, but requires separate networks. While Fibre Channel is likely to remain the standard for large...
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
Fibre Rollout To Everyone.
Talkback Denmark a country with an area 5 times smaller than the UK with a population tens times less than UK and fibre is going into homes as well as business as a considered necessity - more and more people are working from home and in UK the richer are...
[July 23, 2007, 9:15]
Finding A Funder For Fibre To The Home
News As bandwidth demands continue to increase, the requirement for fibre-optic internet connections has risen up the regulatory agenda. Openreach has the Ebbsfleet [fibre-to-the-home] contract. Look at Amsterdam, where the council has entered into a...
[May 6, 2008, 16:23]
Details Emerge On Bournemouth Fibre Scheme
News H2O Networks has released more details on its upcoming fibre-to-the-home deployment in Bournemouth, the largest such project currently planned in the UK. Over 500km of fibre is to be laid throughout the seaside resort, connecting every home and...
[May 9, 2008, 11:39]
BT Fibre Trial To Start In August
News Further details have emerged of BT's upcoming fibre-to-the-home trials in Kent, which could see businesses and residents enjoying data speeds of up to 100Mbps. Openreach, BT's local access network business, is currently deploying fibre to Ebbsfleet...
[January 10, 2008, 14:54]
EC To Make Fibre 'recommendation'
News The European Commission is to issue a recommendation on how member states should go about rolling out fibre connectivity to homes and businesses. Ducatel said the Commission had "concerns" about the relative rates of fibre rollout in other parts of...
[February 27, 2008, 16:23]
Fibre Channel, SSA Standards To Meld
News Seagate and IBM have agreed to blend their competing serial interface standards, FC-AL (Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop) and SSA (Serial Storage Architecture). However, the firms cautioned that it will take a while before the resulting FC-EL (Fibre...
[September 16, 1996, 14:42]
BT Fixing Fibre-optic Broadband Problem
Talkback hi, i am 1 of the unlucky 1's how has the fibre optic problem i live in kingswells aberdeen, when i first connected with plusnet they told me i would receive 2meg but on my connection day NOTHING so 2 engineers and 39 days later i got my broadband...
[April 21, 2006, 15:27]
Fibre Channel: Replacement For MIL-STD-1553 & Next Generation Military Data Bus
White Papers Several high speed interconnect technologies, among them Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Fibre Channel, ATM, IEEE 1394 (Firewire) and Fast Ethernet are competing to replace 1553. While MIL-STD-1553 has long served as the backbone bus in...
[August 22, 2003, 0:00]
Timms: Home Workers Will Need Fibre Access
News The minister for competitiveness, Stephen Timms, has renewed his calls for fibre access to be rolled out across the UK — this time claiming that high-quality videoconferencing makes it necessary. Speaking at the 2007 Parliament and the Internet...
[October 19, 2007, 16:06]
Outgoing BT Chief Hints At Fibre Rollout
News BT is seriously considering a rollout of high-speed fibre connectivity across the country, according to the company's outgoing chairman. Sir Christopher Bland, who relinquishes his role at BT in September, said on Wednesday that BT could opt for a...
[July 19, 2007, 14:40]
Lan Free Backup Using Fibre Channel
White Papers A Fibre Channel, LAN-free backup solution offers all management advantages of a centralized backup scheme coupled with the high performance of distributed backup. For cost sensitive solutions, a Fibre Channel hub can replace the switch.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Let's Talk About Fibre Channel
White Papers Fibre Channel is a high-performance connection standard designed for bi-directional, serial data communication between servers, mass storage subsystems, and peripherals, through hubs, switches, and point-to-point connections.
[March 1, 2004, 23:00]
UK Firm Pushes Fibre Through The Sewers
News Now, H2O Networks of North Wales has come up with a cost-effective way of laying fibre through the nation's sewerage system. H2O's Focus (Fibre Optical Underground Sewer System) system "is a fast and cost-effective way to lay cable and link up any...
[April 24, 2006, 11:30]
