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RSS fibreFibre 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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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 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 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]
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 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]
BT chief hints at fibre rollout
News BT is seriously considering a rollout of high-speed fibre connectivity across the country, according to the company's outgoing chairman. Sir Christopher Bland, who relinquishes his role at BT in September, said on... [19 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Fibre. A year later and another exec told silicon.com the market wasn't ready to pay for fibre: "You have to be ready to pay for that investment. Yes indeed - it's the next generation of broadband... [14 Jul 2009]
Fibre firm fumbles for financing
News New York-based fibre-optic network builder Metromedia Fiber Network is embroiled in a last-ditch attempt to secure a $350m line of credit as deadlines loom and the prospects of funding look bleak. The telecoms crisis... [16 Aug 2001]
