A consortium of more than fifty telecoms companies - including AT&T, BT, Cable and Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and MCI - is to lay a transatlantic telephone and data cable. Expected to go live by the end of 2000, the $1.5bn project...
Lucent Technologies has unveiled an optical fibre technology that it says will quadruple the speed of long distance undersea cable links. The company claims its Truewave XL technology will allow data transmission speeds of 10GB per second over...
Fibernet is to launch a pilot scheme of symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL) networks for telcos and ISPs and will, unlike ADSL, herald the arrival of both voice and data transfer of up to 2Mbits upstream as well as downstream.
Storage giant EMC has developed technology which triples the distance of data transfer over a fibre channel between devices, such as servers and data storage systems. EMC claims it can extend the distance of storage networks up to 200 kilometres...
The five ATLAS Consortium partners are EADS, EDS, Fujitsu Services, General Dynamics and LogicaCMG. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) tech supplier the ATLAS Consortium has awarded software company Infonic an £8.3m contract to provide the MoD with data...
Current challenges include leadership of the roll out of Microsoft's Dynamics Ax for more than 2,000 users across 45 locations. Jane Scott joined food service distributor 3663 in 2003 where she has developed the IT strategy needed to support the...