fibre
RSS fibreFibre notches up 10 per cent of fat pipes
News Fibre technology is increasingly stealing a greater share of the broadband market and has now reached more than 10 per cent of all subscribers. According to research from broadband analysts Point Topic, FTTx (where... [28 Mar 2007]
Fibre to the home hits one million
News Fibre to the home (FTTH) is making slow but steady progress in western Europe with nearly one million users connected. Sweden is the most advanced user of FTTH - which uses optical fibre for last-mile... [01 Mar 2007]
FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i V2 Release Notes
White Paper This paper provides information about the B.11.23.0712 release of the FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2. This release of the FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass... [03 Apr 2008]
Photos: Fibre in the sewers to speed up UK cities
Photo UK company H2O Networks has announced plans to bring superfast broadband - offering speeds of up to 100Mbps - to UK cities by laying fibre optic cables in the sewer. Waste water ducts can easily accommodate the... [25 Jan 2008]
Fibre optics researchers are a bunch of spongers
News Bell Labs researchers believe a deep-sea sponge holds clues to building better fibre-optic cables. Fibre-optic cables that communications companies use are very brittle, because they are created using... [21 Aug 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment Around seven to 10 years later optical fibre was everywhere in the UK. This pattern of events was echoed across the planet as country after country came to the same conclusion and opted for fibre.... [07 Sep 2006]
Fibre - coming to a home near you
News Fibre to the home (FTTH) will reach more than 14 million homes in Europe by 2012, research predicts. Broadband was delivered via fibre optic networks to more than 2.5 million European homes in 2006 - and... [10 Jul 2007]
Fibre Channel Protocol for Linux and z/VM on IBM System z
White Paper This paper discusses Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) concepts and explains some major hardware and software requirements. The Fibre Channel (FC) standard was developed by the National Committee of... [29 Mar 2008]
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution
White Paper Data centers typically run multiple separate networks, including an Ethernet network for client-to-server and server-to-server communications and a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN). To support various types of... [12 Jun 2008]
Fibre connectivity set to change, says EC
News The European Commission is to issue a recommendation on how member states should go about rolling out fibre connectivity to homes and businesses. F is for Fibre Ducatel said the Commission had "concerns"... [28 Feb 2008]
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet in the Data Center: An Introduction
White Paper Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a newly proposed standard that is being developed by INCITS T11. The FCoE protocol specification maps Fibre Channel natively over Ethernet and is independent of the... [11 Apr 2008]
Fibre Channel and iSCSI Performance Comparison for DSS Workloads Using SQL Server 2005
White Paper For many years, large enterprises have relied on Fibre Channel (FCP) as the default Storage Area Network (SAN) protocol for high-performance application and database workloads. As enterprises look to drive down costs and... [31 Aug 2007]
Innovation Network Lecture Series: The Journey Towards the Converged Data Center - Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and ISCSI
White Paper Both the FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) and iSCSI (SCSI over TCP/IP) protocols provide paths to reach this goal. For decades, the IT industry has tried out a number of technologies, looking for one that can provide a... [01 Oct 2009]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News The London 2012 Olympic Games is set to turn the capital into a high-speed fibre network hub. Speaking at a Westminster eForum event Stuart Hill, vice president for the London 2012 delivery programme for BT, said the... [23 Oct 2008]
Cisco Delivers Enterprise-Class Fibre Channel Blade Switch Solution
White Paper As blade server deployments in the data center continue to grow, IT departments must address several challenges in terms of the scalability, interoperability, any-to-any connectivity, flexibility, and availability capabilities of... [07 Aug 2009]
