Pinacl will provide gigabit Ethernet category 5 cabling and an optical fiber backbone. It is designed to support fast Ethernet and 155Mbps ATM voice and data. Boots the chemist has awarded Pinacl Systems the networking contract for its new...
Sun has announced a 10 Gigabit Ethernet alliance to boost the technology's take-up in the marketplace. Giants of the Web's infrastructure - including 3Com, Cisco, Intel, Nortel and Sun - are behind the scheme, which aims to make 10 Gigabit...
Figures from research company Rhetorik show companies in the UK have taken to Gigabit Ethernet as a fast networking backbone technology over the past year. Gigabit's slower cousin Fast Ethernet is also reported to have increased its market share.
To increase its market acceptance, Intel is pushing products for Gigabit Ethernet over category 5 copper cables, the legacy standard in stark contrast to fibre-optic cabling. Nigel Towell, spokesman for Intel, noted a server implementation optical...
Having accepted that there may be an application out there to fit the bill, what makes us think Gigabit Ethernet is the technology to fit that bill? For a highly complex technology, Gigabit Ethernet across the MAN (metropolitan area network) poses...
An approved final draft of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet standard will mean more choices as vendors develop standard-compliant products. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 Ethernet Standard group recently approved the...