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RSS ethernet in newsUniversity ramps up network bandwidth for e-learning
News The university selected ntl:Telewest Business to replace its WAN with a high speed metro Ethernet VPN network, which connects its main building and central campus at Northampton Square in Clerkenwell to 10 remote sites, including Cass Business... [23 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News It has 10,000 connections, both infiniband and gigabit Ethernet, with 57 miles of fibre-optic cable. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second - twice as... [11 Jun 2008]
Council plugs free internet for tenants
News The residents of the eight multi-storey buildings around North Solihull, near Birmingham, will be able to get internet access at broadband speeds through an internet connectivity unit that plugs into the wall sockets, with a three-pin interface on... [21 May 2008]
Wi-fi for free on board commuter coach
News The service, which is free to commuters, piggybacks on an Ethernet in-bus network used to support CCTV, telematics and remote GPS fleet monitoring. Independent bus operator Trent Barton has equipped eight of its 270 fleet of coaches with a free wi... [19 May 2008]
National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?
News Eventually, I give up and plug in the Ethernet cable and I'm up and running immediately, I think. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it is to do your job remotely. [16 May 2008]
Intel launches modular-server building tools…
News According to Intel, the server systems will offer integrated SAN, two Ethernet switch modules and a management module. Intel has launched a set of modular-server building blocks for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and resellers to... [15 Jan 2008]
Dell goes shopping for storage solution
News The iSCSI standard is designed to operate on a company's existing Ethernet network, meaning businesses could lower costs by forgoing the need to install fibre networks. Dell has announced plans to acquire EqualLogic in a $1.4bn cash deal, as the... [06 Nov 2007]
Scottish council boosts network
News East Renfrewshire unitary council has awarded NTL: Telewest Business a £5m contract to supply a distributed Ethernet enterprise network. The council previously used an SDH-based star architecture network supplied by NTL but the first elements of... [18 Oct 2007]
Dell's Ubuntu PCs launch in the US
News The other two systems both have 250GB drives, 1GB of memory and 10/100 Ethernet connections. Dell has finally launched three systems with the Ubuntu Linux distribution installed but only in the US. Users around the rest of the world will have to... [25 May 2007]
Thus lands £11m contract to wire up students
News The contract extension will see the majority of educational institutions connected using a 1Gbps Ethernet connection, with seven sites getting a 10Gbps Ethernet connection. If an institution needs extra bandwidth the Ethernet infrastructure... [24 Apr 2007]
Microsoft in a fix over cursor patch
News We lost all Ethernet and audio functions. Installing Microsoft's Tuesday patch for a "critical" Windows vulnerability is causing trouble for some users. Microsoft broke with its monthly patch cycle on Tuesday to repair a bug in the way Windows... [05 Apr 2007]
Nortel joins BT's 21CN gang
News Nortel will now be one of the suppliers of BT's 21CN Ethernet, which will carry high bandwidth services including full streaming video. Matt Beal, director core convergence, BT Wholesale, said in a statement: "We have been anticipating the... [16 Jan 2007]
Students ditch booze queues with RFID pub tables
News Orders are transmitted to the bar using ethernet over powerline, with the drinks brought directly to their tables. Sharp elbows. Long queues. Being ignored by the barman when you eventually get there. [20 Sep 2006]
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 technology has not provided enough capacity or... [31 May 2006]
Intel to launch business PC brand?
News One logical time to introduce the brand would be at the third-quarter launch of a business PC platform code-named Averill, which combines the dual-core "Conroe" desktop processor with the "Broadwater" chipset and 1Gbps Ethernet networking. [27 Mar 2006]
