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London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event Stuart Hill, vice president for the London 2012 delivery programme for BT, said the Olympic Park would be served by an "industrial strength fibre infrastructure" with 10,000 access points, linked by... [23 Oct 2008]
Next-gen wi-fi to serve up IPTV?
News But most homes today aren't equipped with Ethernet cabling, which has traditionally been used to deliver IP services. Wi-fi provides a good alternative to Ethernet cabling but until recently the... [31 May 2006]
Cisco snaps up Topspin for $250m
News The deal fills out Cisco's array of switching products, which also includes Ethernet gear for internet and intranet connections and multiprotocol MDS switches for storage area networks. These 'server fabric switches' are... [15 Apr 2005]
Cisco router business hit as profits rise
News Chief Executive Officer John Chambers noted during a conference call with investors and analysts that revenue in Cisco's traditional Ethernet switching and IP routing business slipped during the quarter. [10 Nov 2004]
SGI updates midrange Unix server
News The system can be purchased with between two and 32 processors and with as many as 62 PCI-X slots for plugging in high-bandwidth devices such as Fibre Channel or gigabit Ethernet network cards. The... [16 Apr 2003]
Low-end 'Enchilada' spices up Sun server line
News For one thing, each has four 1-gigabit-per-second Ethernet ports built in, said Souheil Saliba, vice president of marketing for Sun's volume server products group. The forthcoming UltraSparc IV can help them at the... [08 Apr 2003]
Telco-friendly Ethernet 'ready for action'
News A major effort has been put into making metro Ethernet resilient, with the MEF specifications providing an alternative to Ethernet's "spanning tree algorithm", which will allow the networks to recover... [05 Mar 2003]
Sun gets sparky with Sparc critics
News The blades link using Gigabit Ethernet, and are managed by Sun's N1 provisioning software. Although Sun lost a high-profile customer, as Pixar has switched from SPARC to Intel, there was still a need for... [11 Feb 2003]
Sun supercomputers start to purr with Wildcat
News Computers in Beowulf clusters are linked with regular Ethernet network cards or special-purpose network cards from companies such as Myricom. Sun Microsystems is taking a major step into supercomputing with the... [18 Nov 2002]
News in View: ATM set for a comeback against Ethernet
News Use of Gigabit Ethernet is currently outstripping ATM - but the increasing deployment of video and other multimedia applications could revive the fortunes of the high-speed data transfer protocol. A... [04 Jul 2000]
3Com bolsters wireless LAN range
News Com's offering will consist of wireless access points, notebook PC cards and PCI cards, and promises Ethernet-speed performance. The agreement with Intersil - formerly Harris Semiconductor - comes less... [31 Mar 2000]
Intel criticises Windows 2000 encryption
News Compaq and IBM in Europe have already signed up to manufacture machines containing the chipset - which combines Intel's 82559C Fast Ethernet Controller and the 82594ED Network Encryption Co-Processor. [16 Sep 1999]
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