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News I will support state and local broadband initiatives, from new wireless technologies to high-speed fiber optics. Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US... [03 Jan 2008]
Philadelphia to offer cheap broadband for whole city
News Other projects in smaller or rural municipalities are digging up streets to install speedy fiber-optic lines into homes and businesses. In contrast, Verizon just introduced a new 3Mbps downstream digital subscriber line... [08 Apr 2005]
Wireless broadband comes to Indian state
News Other options could have been leased lines or cable or fiber - all of which would have involved digging and would have been more difficult as well as more expensive to roll out. An Indian state has launched wireless... [17 Aug 2004]
4G phone tested by Japan and China
News The project would use the internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) and achieve speeds of up to 100Mb per second, comparable to fiber-optic cables and much faster than the current 3G mobile phone maximum of 2.4Mb per second. [26 Nov 2003]
Intel to replace silicon
News Other ideas on the drawing board include multiple gate transistors, controlling transistor voltage, replacing wires inside chips with optical fiber and carbon nanotubes. Moore's Law is alive and well, but Intel is... [05 Nov 2003]
LCD looks to NED - Motorola makes screen advances
News Elsewhere, scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to force carbon nanotubes to emit light, which could eventually lead to advances in fiber-optic technology. Motorola is conducting research in a new type of... [07 Jul 2003]
Sun unveils bomb, flood and fire proof servers
News The system depends largely on an artifact of the dot-com era: dark fiber. In the late 1990s, companies planted miles of fiber-optic cable into the ground in Europe and North America. Sun Microsystems has... [29 Oct 2002]
Storage technology clears key hurdle
News SCSI is a widely used standard for connecting hard drives to computers.iSCSI lets that happen over a network connection such as a company Ethernet network or even the internet.iSCSI holds the promise of letting multiple computers tap... [06 Sep 2002]
First suitor sniffing around WorldCom
News The company said it offered to buy WorldCom's MFS network and Brooks Fiber units which provide local phone services to small businesses in the US, and its MCI unit which provides long distance calls to consumers and... [03 Jul 2002]
WorldCom-itis hits British university network
News MFN (Metromedia Fiber Network) is one. University internet network Janet is desperately seeking an alternative data carrier having suffered a double telecoms blow: it recently abandoned bankrupt KPNQwest, and opted... [27 Jun 2002]
Metromedia latest to file for Chapter 11
News Metromedia Fiber Network has filed for bankruptcy after failing to come up with the funds to pay its creditors. The company has stated its operations will continue, though it will use Chapter 11 protection to reorganise. [21 May 2002]
Global Crossing attracts a new suitor
News Bankrupt high-speed network operator Global Crossing may have found a buyer in the shape of Fiber Optek Interconnect. According to the Financial Times Fiber Optek Interconnect is in talks with a... [15 Mar 2002]
Technologies that time forgot: 100VGAnyLan
News Meanwhile the network grew again, to 1Gbt and soon 10Gbt, DWDM, Fiber Channel, WiFi, Bluetooth. With the advent of server processors like Digital's Alpha and Intel's PCI internal bus technology in the early nineties, the... [23 Nov 2001]
EMC and Compaq in licensing love-in
News The API allows EMC and Compaq to swap access functions on similar devices, such as EMC's Symmetrix disk array with Compaq's HSG-80 Fiber Channel array controller. EMC and Compaq have signed an agreement to cross license... [08 Nov 2001]
HP virtual reality
News The new software, called Surestore SANLink Appliance, allows virtualisation to take place between heterogeneous host and storage environments with up to 32 or 64 fiber channel connections. HP has unveiled storage... [26 Oct 2001]
