copper
RSS copperCopper chip technology launched by IBM
News IBM has released its first supercomputer powered by copper chip technology. The copper-based Power3-II processor is a RISC chip developed for IBM's RS/6000 servers and workstations, and the PC giant... [09 Feb 2000]
Twisted-Pair Ethernet: Copper Cabling for High Performance Networking
White Paper This paper discusses UTP copper cabling performance specifications as related to signal transmission aspects with special emphasis on twisted-pair Ethernet applications. Additionally, the paper illustrates the... [12 Mar 2008]
Copper and the Chilean Economy, 1960-98
White Paper This paper concludes that world copper prices play an important role in short-term fluctuations and probably influence long-term growth of the Chilean economy. In a copper price boom, the higher... [25 Feb 2004]
Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. Gains Enterprise-Class Reliability and Functionality With New Data Infrastructure
Copper State Bolt & Nut Co.founded in 1972, is a manufacturer and distributor of fasteners, power tools, construction equipment and related products. Copper State Bolt & Nut implemented Oracle Database... [18 Oct 2006]
Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. Gains Enterprise-Class Reliability and Functionality With New Data Infrastructure
White Paper Copper State Bolt & Nut Co.founded in 1972, is a manufacturer and distributor of fasteners, power tools, construction equipment and related products. Copper State Bolt & Nut implemented Oracle Database... [18 Oct 2006]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre is laid to the street cabinets used by the... [22 Aug 2008]
Broadcom offers high-speed delivery down copper wires
News For use in local network switches, the chip offers speeds of 1GB per second down traditional copper wires. Broadcom's latest chip claims to enable faster delivery of video, voice and data without the use of fibre optic... [12 May 1999]
HP puts Gigabit Ethernet on copper
News Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled a range of switch and server modules which support Gigabit Ethernet on standard copper wiring. The modules are designed for use with HP's ProCurve range of Ethernet switches, and support... [04 Aug 1999]
Yo!Sushi cuts copper in favour of MPLS
News Sushi IT manager Billy Waters, the company's existing infrastructure, based on copper leased lines was reaching capacity. Fast food chain Yo! Sushi is forecasting a two-year return on investment on an MPLS (multi... [07 Apr 2008]
10GBASE-T: 10G Ethernet on Copper Cabling
White Paper First, it supports legacy copper UTP cabling and for new installations of copper cabling, it maintains the structured cabling paradigm and support for RJ-45 connections and patch panels. 10GBASE-T offers... [12 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment At first the technology and economics looked promising, and in 1986 the first optical fibre trial system to undercut the cost of copper was installed in the UK. Water ingress in copper cables typically... [07 Sep 2006]
Gigabit Ethernet Over Copper
White Paper Gigabit Ethernet has been standardized for fiber optic cable since 1998, but until recently was not standardized for Category 5 copper cable, the most widely used cabling medium within buildings. Network managers are... [25 Feb 2004]
Intel gears up to put an end to PC copper
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... [01 Mar 2004]
An Overview of UltraSPARC III Cu: UltraSPARC III Moves to Copper Technology
White Paper This white paper provides a brief overview of Sun Microsystem’s latest SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) microprocessor, the 1200 MHz (1.2 GHz) 0.13 micron (0.13µ) copper metal implementation of UltraSPARC III. [05 May 2004]
TIA-942 Data Center Networking Applications: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Over Twisted-Pair Copper
White Paper In parallel and subsequent to the development of TIA-942, the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet working group published two twisted-pair copper standards, 1000 Mb/s Ethernet designated 1000BASE-T and 10 Gb/s Ethernet (10 GbE)... [28 Mar 2008]
