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Their proposal, which includes upgrading the WAN to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps, or 1,000 Mbps) and the direct Internet connection to 50 Mbps, is $150,000 less than the next lowest bidder. This substantial price difference initially raised the concern of members of the School Board. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
Cisco Makes Ethernet, Fibre Channel Play Nice Jan 31, 2008
At the top end, one Nexus 7000 chassis can support up to 512 10-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) Ethernet connections. "People have been waiting for this platform for a while it's the center of our architecture," said Bill Lulofs, a data center marketing manager at Cisco. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Neo Telecoms Installs Foundry Networks' NetIron MLX Metro Routers to Revamp Its Metropolitan Area Network Jan 30, 2008
One of Europe's fastest growing ISPs, the company manages a European backbone with a capacity of approximately 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) to effectively interconnect six countries ... Its international 100 Gbps network can deliver IP transit throughout four different countries and offer connectivity solutions between nations over private lines. (Primezone Releases)
Time to change spots Jan 29, 2008
5-inch notebook hard disk drive has a 5400 rpm drive with a 3 Gbps transfer rate. The Scorpio 320 GB employs "ShockGuard" - combining firmware and hardware features to protect against the rough-and-tumble of life on the road. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Cisco Pushes Big Firewall For Big Business Needs Jan 25, 2008
Cisco claims that the ASA 5580 can handle up to 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput, two million simultaneous connections and 750,000 security policies. Though the ASA 5580 is a high-performance appliance, raw speed isn't what Cisco expects will give it the edge in the highly competitive firewall security market. (eSecurityPlanet)
ASA 5580 Series Adaptive Security Appliances Introduced by Cisco Jan 25, 2008
It is basically a security platform that can be used to not only deploy firewall with up to 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) of throughput but also 10,000 user remote-access concentrator for IP Security (IPsec)-based virtual private networks (VPN) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ... The top-of-the-line Cisco ASA 5580-40 offers up to two million simultaneous connections, 750,000 security policies and 10 Gbps of firewall throughput scaling up to 20 Gbps for data-intensive applications such as video... (TechShout!)
Cisco Unveils High-Performance Firewall, VPN Appliance Jan 24, 2008
According to Tom Russell, senior director of product management for Cisco's Security Technology Group, the ASA 5580 is suited for high performance deployments and features a scalable firewall with up to 20 Gbps of throughput, as well as a 10,000 user concentrator for both SSL and VPNs, which can support up to 100,000 users with clustering ... The 5580-40, the top-of-the-line model, offers 2 million simultaneous connections, 750,000 security policies and 10 Gbps of firewall throughput that can... (CRN)
Dell Touts Energy Efficiency In M-Series Blade Servers Jan 23, 2008
Customers can choose an upgradeable Ethernet blade switch and the Layer 3 Dell PowerConnect M6220, with 1 and 10 Gbps ports. There are also three Cisco options, which include a switch with a variety of 1Gbps ports, 10 Gbps ports, and stackable ports ... Other connectivity options include two Brocade 4 Gbps Fibre Channels, as well as and Ethernet Pass Through options for customers with an existing switch infrastructure. (InformationWeek)
AMD Unleashes the ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3400 and ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3600 Series, Delivering Leading-Edge Graphics Technology With Full Support for DirectX(R) 10.1, PCI Express(R) 2.0 and DisplayPort(TM) Jan 23, 2008
0is 5 Gbps per lanein each direction, vs.2. 5 Gbps per lanein each direction for PCI Express 1. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
FalconStor clusters VTL data deduplication Jan 23, 2008
2 GBps, and each SIR node at 400 MBps ... 2 GBps, and each SIR node at 400 MBps. (Search Storage)
Cisco's Optical Concept: The 1-Gig Cable Modem Jan 17, 2008
DPON' Could Deliver 10-Gbps Cable Modems, Vendor Claims ... Practically speaking, it's a 1-Gbps cable modem ... 0 spec to target downloads of around , Cisco envisions much higher speeds -- as much as 10 Gbps in the future, according to Bernstein -- using a passive optical network (or "PON") as the underlying transport mechanism. (Multichannel News)
1Gbps 'superbroadband' helps unis research Jan 16, 2008
1Gbps 'superbroadband' helps unis research: News - Communications - ZDNet Australia ... 1Gbps 'superbroadband' helps unis research ... These speeds are possible using Australia's Academic and Research Network, AARNet, which achieves speeds of 10Gbps both between universities in Australia, and in the US. For the OptIPortal project, the University has been allocated one tenth of the connection's bandwidth to the US, enabling speeds of 1Gbps. (ZDNet.com.au)
Leading Analyst Firm Positions Trapeze Networks in the Visionaries Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure 2007 Jan 12, 2008
11n MP-432 access point, Mobility Exchange(R) 2800 28 Gbps WLAN controller and Mobility System Software (MSS) enhancements. About Trapeze Networks Trapeze Networks delivers Smart Mobile(TM) -- a ground-breaking approach to wireless networking, enabling organizations to deploy massively scalable mobile applications that leverage their existing infrastructure. (PR Newswire)
Heated Start to Assembly's Winter Session - Pics Jan 11, 2008
"As of date, Goa is quite ahead in development of IT infrastructure as compared to other states of India with its super high bandwidth connectivity connecting all talukas with 10 Gbps connectivity," Jamir said. He further said, "with this initiative the government will be able to communicate with all talukas by using video conferencing facilities installed at mamlatdar office in every taluka which will definitely save lot of time, fuel and traffic congestion and in turn increase the productivity... (Daijiworld.com)
Pacific Internet and Asia Netcom reform as Pacnet Jan 9, 2008
24 Tbps of capacity, of which only 240 Gbps is currently lit. The EAC-C2C network has an estimated value of US$4 billion - based on the cost of building a similar infrastructure. (iT News)
Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet Launch Merger and Unveil New Corporate Identity Jan 8, 2008
24 Tbps of capacity, of which only 240 Gbps is currently lit. The EAC-C2C network has an estimated replacement value of US$4 billion -- based on the cost of building a similar infrastructure. (PR Newswire)
Dell Announces Stylish New LCD Monitors Ahead of CES Jan 4, 2008
2 gbps) of video and audio with the same cable, potentially positioning the new technology as a multimedia or home theater connector. The 3008WFP comes with a bounty of other analog and digital connections too: DVI, HDMI, VGA, S-Video, Composite, Component and USB. The monitor has a native resolution of 2560 by 1600, an 8ms response time (grey to grey) and a 3000:1 contrast ratio. (PC World)
Hitachi readies monster 500GB mobile hard drive Jan 4, 2008
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, hitting hard in the days leading up to CES, announcied a for notebooks and other mobile devices that offers Godzilla-sized " a half-terabyte, or 500GB -- capable of holding 178 movies, 500 hours of digital video, 250 games or 125,000 four-minute songs. The Travelstar 5K500, the 2.5-inch mobile hard drive sets a new benchmark for capacity and, according to Hitachi, will usher in a new era of slim desktops, full-featured notebooks, gaming consoles and other... (EETimes)
Storage Outlook '08 Jan 4, 2008
He also tells why he's not considering 8 Gbps FC or storage virtualization tools ... He also tells why he's not considering 8 Gbps FC or storage virtualization tools. (Search Storage)
Allot Acquires Esphion for Network and Subscriber Protection Solutions Jan 3, 2008 Storage Outlook '08: Improving disk-based backup Dec 27, 2007 Storage Outlook '08: Building out iSCSI SANs Dec 25, 2007 Brocade bounces back in Fibre Channel switch market Dec 14, 2007 AT&T debuts higher-speed network Dec 11, 2007 AT&T fires up new high-speed backbone network Dec 11, 2007 HP's Revamped Storage Switch Slate Dec 7, 2007 Photo Release -- Foundry Networks Helps Propel Record Traffic At the World's Largest Public Internet Exchange Dec 4, 2007 Brocade: No slowdown in storage spending Dec 1, 2007 Dell storage sales show modest growth Dec 1, 2007 Novera Optics Names John Barton New CEO Nov 27, 2007 8-Gig Fibre Channel Arrives ... Slowly Nov 22, 2007 FCC to Provide $400M for Rural Telemedicine Networks Nov 21, 2007 Cisco, others roll out InfiniBand gear for HPC apps Nov 20, 2007 Verizon Business to Deploy Next-Generation Optical Ultra Long-Haul Network in Europe Nov 15, 2007 City Telecom (CTEL) to Present at ROTH 'China Comes To Phoenix' Conference, Nov 29-30, 2007, Phoenix, AZ, USA Nov 9, 2007 Is 10 Gigabit Ethernet catching up with InfiniBand? Nov 7, 2007 Tape vendor Overland moves into data deduplication Nov 7, 2007 Storage that Grows with You Oct 27, 2007 Microsoft OK's Voltaire InfiniBand for Windows servers Oct 23, 2007 Fibre Channel over Ethernet takes its next step Oct 18, 2007 Lumera introduces new photonic device, stock rises Oct 16, 2007 Brocade talks 8 Gbit, but it is mum on new director Oct 16, 2007 Neuf Cegetel Selects Ericsson and Redback to Build Its Next Generation Fiber-to-the-Home Network Oct 10, 2007 Go away spaghetti, structured connectivity is here Oct 8, 2007 Sandvine Demonstrates Power of PTS 14000 at Broadband World Forum Europe Oct 8, 2007 New RocketRAID SATA card claims 1.2 Gbps transfer Oct 6, 2007 UWB test: Call for participation Oct 3, 2007 Storage Decisions: guide to data storage product news Sep 26, 2007 GigaBeam Affiliate GalactaCOM Announces Acquisition and Investment Sep 25, 2007 Alchip Selects Verigy V93000 SOC Series Pin Scale as Next Generation Test Platform Sep 25, 2007 USB 3.0 to Come in 2008 Sep 21, 2007 VIA Launches EPIA SN With 1.8 GHz Processor Sep 18, 2007 Cisco Dives into the Draft 802.11n Pool Sep 12, 2007 Procurve goes for the core Sep 11, 2007 Sun Announces World's First Blade Server Uniquely Designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) Processors Sep 10, 2007 IDC: High-end storage stalls in second quarter Sep 8, 2007 IBM Tries Again With iSCSI Aug 30, 2007 UCSD tips world's highest-resolution display Aug 28, 2007 Watch movie DVDs on your mobile! Aug 27, 2007 Tilera Shipping 'Mega-Multicore' Chip Aug 21, 2007 Infortrend Qualifies Hitachi 1TB Hard Drive Enabling High Performance Raid Storage Aug 21, 2007 3PAR, EqualLogic file for IPOs Aug 18, 2007 Practical design considerations--Ethernet vs. RapidIO standards Aug 16, 2007 Sun Announces Fastest Commodity Microprocessor, UltraSPARC T2 Aug 11, 2007 Burnett Staffing Specialists Teams With Time Warner Telecom to Build a Fully Converged Communications Network Aug 7, 2007 BigAir on WiMAX roll-out Aug 1, 2007 Cogent Communications Selects Digital Realty Trust Facility for New Point of Presence Jul 31, 2007 Cisco Unveils New Data Center Products, Vision for Data Center 3.0 Jul 28, 2007 Symantec profits down, EMC stocks slip Jul 28, 2007 Intel sets record breakthrough with 40Gbps modulators Jul 27, 2007 Will Cable Boost Bandwidth to 1 Gbps, And Should It? Jul 27, 2007 CANARIE completes Western Canada upgrade Jul 26, 2007 Intel claims breakthru with 40Gbps optical component Jul 26, 2007 Multi-gigabit Wireless Research Could Soon Make Wired Computers And Peripherals Obsolete Jul 20, 2007 EMC Aims High with New Symmetrix Jul 17, 2007 EMC floats raft of updates for disk arrays Jul 17, 2007 IBM brushes up mainframe VTL, touts SVC performance Jul 14, 2007 Sourcefire Device Busts Bottlenecks at 10Gbps Jul 13, 2007 The First Wi-Fi Certified 11n Product is... Jul 4, 2007 SGI introduces Intel-based blade for HPC workloads Jun 30, 2007 Temp agency moves hundreds of terabytes to iSCSI SAN Jun 30, 2007 Intel Accelerates High Performance Computing Clusters Jun 27, 2007 EVault backs up VMware Jun 23, 2007 40 Gbps Optical Transmission Technology - Video Report Jun 22, 2007
Allot plans to integrate Esphion's products and technology into its entire product portfolio, including the recently announced Allot Service Gateway, the industry's first open, standards-based platform for broadband service control and optimization capable of supporting more than 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of traffic ... Esphion's granular network and subscriber behavior analysis (NBA) technology provides an accurate way to detect the root cause for security attacks over 10Gbps communication... (PR Newswire)
Goa goes broadband with PM's click Dec 28, 2007
In the first phase of the project which was inaugurated on Thursday, all district and taluka level headquarters have been brought under 10 Gbps connectivity. The second phase will connect all Panchayats with 1 Gbps connectivity to taluka headquarters by March 2008, while in the third phase 2-10 Mbps connectivity by December 31, 2008. (Economic Times)
won't be considering 8 Gbps FC or storage virtualization tools. "> Joe Meyer, senior storage architect at Level 3 Communications LLC, manages petabytes of storage using products from one of the major three-letter vendors. (Meyer is not permitted to disclose which particular vendors he works with.) In Meyer's environment, performance is king, especially for high-volume transaction processing of structured data. Looking forward to 2008, Meyer has strong ideas about what technologies he'll be... (Search Storage)
Our previous switches had 1 Gbps ISLs, and now we just have a blade chassis, and the speed between each of those is backplane speed, which is somewhere in the vicinity of 60 Gbps between the modules ... Vendors will be coming out with 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 10 GigE products in earnest next year and pushing FCoE. Are any of those networking technologies of interest to you ... Dulek: Eventually, 10 GigE will help us significantly with our backbone, especially in delivering iSCSI. But, I don't... (Search Storage)
Brocade qualifying 8 Gbps Fibre Channel director. Dell'Oro attributed the uptick to the fact that Brocade is now qualifying its newest 8 Gbps Fibre Channel director with storage vendors and its customers ... Brocade qualifying 8 Gbps Fibre Channel director. (Search Storage)
Both companies plan to push the 40-gigabit standard in the U.S. and eventually upgrade to 100 Gbps. Shares of AT 28 cents to $38. (AZCentral -- Business)
Both companies plan to push the 40-gigabit standard in the United States and eventually upgrade to 100 Gbps. (Agencies). (Xinhuanet, China)
Since then, FC has regularly increased its speed, now topping out at 8 Gbps. "Each new generation of (HBAs), because they are made with a new chip at a new chip size, usually results in a higher performance adapter costing less than the old one at the slower speed," says Gartner research VP Robert E. Passmore. (Datamation)
With the surging growth of Internet traffic pushing overall used capacity through the 350 Gbps threshold at the end of October, AMS-IX required the most powerful switching platform available to provide their multifaceted infrastructure with long-term scalability, simplified network management, high reliability, and protection for their long-term equipment investment ... As we look to solve the growing demand for higher speed connections and to service our members beyond the 300 Gbps milestone,... (Primezone Releases)
Klayko said Brocade is well-positioned for 2008, with close to one-third of its customers planning to redesign their data centers and his company set to launch 8 Gbps switches, host bus adapters (HBA) and a for its new data center fabric framework in the next six months ... Brocade got a big bump by being the first switch vendor to offer 4 Gbps switches in 2005 ... But customer adoption of 8 Gbps equipment will likely slower. (Search Storage)
Interviews with 250 Fortune 1000 and midrange enterprise system users revealed deduplication as the most common technology in their roadmap, followed by virtual tape libraries and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel gear ... Interviews with 250 Fortune 1000 and midrange enterprise system users revealed deduplication as the most common technology in their roadmap, followed by virtual tape libraries and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel gear. (Search Storage)
Novera Optics' next-generation transport platform is predicated on four features: (i) simplicity of setup, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of colorless optical networking units; (ii) security, thanks to its point-to-point optical connections and top-flight QoS; (iii) scalability with future bit-rate updates and the ability to deliver mixed bit-rates from Mbps to Gbps per each wavelength; and (iv) service independency that offers increased revenue opportunities with mixed-service... (PR Newswire)
As a result, adoption of new technology like 8Gbps Fibre Channel can take years. For example, according to Dell'Oro, switches and HBAs incorporating the technology's predecessor, 4Gbps, began falling into users' hands in 2004, but it hasn't been until this year that it has begun to dominate shipments of new equipment ... In 2007, 97 percent of Fibre Channel switches and 80 percent of HBAs will use 4 Gbps technology, she said. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Network will connect approximately 58 facilities at speeds ranging from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps ... Bacon County Health Services, Inc. (Georgia) A new 1 Gbps network will connect approximately 25 public and non-profit health care facilities in rural and urban locations in Georgia to an existing network, enabling telemedicine services, distance education, research, and effective disaster response. (Local Tech Wire)
By sharing aggregated gateway ports in conjunction with the 20-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) InfiniBand connection, clustered servers gain access to more bandwidth than an individually connected server, Cisco reported ... Voltaire announced that its are available for the new HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System and introduced the a new 20 Gbps, 96-port InfiniBand switching platform for high-performance unified fabrics in the data center ... By sharing aggregated gateway ports in conjunction with the... (Search390.com)
This next-generation technology, which will support speeds up to 40 gigabits per second (Gbps), will give Verizon Business customers in Europe an opportunity to use new high-bandwidth intensive services for years to come. The first phase of ULH deployment is scheduled to be completed during the first quarter of 2008. (PR Newswire)
Presentation Title: ''Profiting from Unlimited Bandwidth'' -- 1 Gbps to the home New Generation Network built for US$130/home pass ... Having built the world's largest Metro Ethernet broadband network, HKBN delivers up to 1 Gbps broadband access to 1. (PR Newswire)
Arastra's 1U 10 GbE switches offer submicrosecond latencies and throughput of up to 720 millions of packets per second (MPPS) and 960 Gbps per switch ... And Arastra Inc.'s DX7100 series of switches offer 1U 10-GbE switches with submicrosecond latencies and throughput of up to 720 MPPS and 960 Gbps per switch at a $400 per port list price, making it competitive with InfiniBand ... As for InfiniBand, offers specials like its Grid Director ISR9288 10 Gbps InfiniBand Switch, 4X PCI-Ex host channel... (Search390.com)
The 9500D holds up to 187 TB of usable capacity in a 5u chassis, supports 12 library partitions, 64 virtual tape drives and 3,000 virtual cartridges and includes dual 4 Gbps Fibre Channel host connectivity ... The 9500D holds up to 187 TB of usable capacity in a 5u chassis, supports 12 library partitions, 64 virtual tape drives and 3,000 virtual cartridges and includes dual 4 Gbps Fibre Channel host connectivity. (Search Storage)
This would only be over a Gigabit (1 Gbps) Ethernet connection -- which would require you to have a Gigabit Ethernet router or hub and network adapter. We were unable to corroborate these claims, but we can offer this caution about speed of backups to people new to RAID5 backups. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Recent benchmark tests conducted by Hewlett-Packard Co. indicate that Microsoft interconnected with Voltaire 20 Gbps InfiniBand delivers substantial performance improvements for a number of HPC applications when compared with Gbit Ethernet as the cluster interconnect, Voltaire reported ... Recent benchmark tests conducted by Hewlett-Packard Co. indicate that Microsoft interconnected with Voltaire 20 Gbps InfiniBand delivers substantial performance improvements for a number of HPC applications... (Search390.com)
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Storage infrastructure vendors are pushing the nascent Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard as the quickest path to 10 Gbps Ethernet connectivity, although iSCSI proponents obviously disagree. QLogic Corp. kicked off the latest round of FCoE hype yesterday with a press conference at Storage Networking World (SNW) to launch its new 8 Gbps switches and host bus adapters (HBA) and to pledge support for the new FCoE standard ... GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Storage infrastructure... (Search Storage)
Lumera's new 40 gigabyte per second (Gbps) electro-optic polymer modulator is designed to transmit information using the company's polymer technology, which Lumera officials say is "a superior and reliable alternative to (existing) crystalline materials." ... "The global expansion of broadband networks due to the dramatic increase in data transmission traffic has generated increased deployment of 40 Gbps optical network systems," said Raluca Dinu, vice president, electro-optic business unit, in... (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. began priming the 8 Gbps pump today with the revelation that it has shipped 8 Gbit blades for its SilkWorm 48000 directors to its OEM storage partners for qualification ... Brocade's 8 Gbit plans are in line with those of host bus adapter (HBA) vendors Emulex Corp. and QLogic Corp., which said they expect storage OEM partners to have their 8 Gbps HBAs in customers' hands by the middle of next year ... Brocade Communications Systems Inc. began priming the 8... (Search Storage)
Under the new deal, Redback and Ericsson will deploy and maintain Redback SmartEdge 1200 multi-service edge routers to aggregate optical access nodes into a high speed, 10 Gbps metro Ethernet network. Building a nationwide fiber network across France will allow Neuf Cegetel to introduce a new set of high-bandwidth communications services for both consumers and businesses. (BusinessWire)
The data transmission speed requirement is projected to be 10 Gigabit per second (10 Gbps). Being an oil xploration and production company, Santos has a lot of graphics-heavy, geology-related image files circulating among the workstations used by its engineers, and this requires the largest bandwidth the company can provide. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
- Acquired CableMatrix Technologies and Simplicita Software to broaden its Service Creation and Network Integrity portfolios - Continued success in PTS 14000 10 Gbps deployments - Growing footprint in Tier 1 networks around the globe. ABOUT SANDVINE. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Macworld: News: New RocketRAID SATA card claims 1. October 05, 2007 9:03 am ET. (MacCentral)
Throughput claims from UWB vendors range up to 1 Gbps but such claims are difficult to substantiate because they are highly dependent on test methodology, says Mlinarsky. An open competitive test that uses consistent test methods to measure and compare the performance of UWB products should be of great value to both design engineers and the end-user community. (EETimes)
Emulex demonstrates HBA-based authentication Emulex announced that its LightPulse 4 Gbps FC HBAs can perform fabric-based security authentication using the Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), newly ratified by the T11 standards committee a year ago ... Emulex demonstrates HBA-based authentication Emulex announced that its LightPulse 4 Gbps FC HBAs can perform fabric-based security authentication using the Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), newly ratified by the T11 standards committee... (Search Storage)
The company provides access to its customers at speeds between 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps ... MetroNext s focus is the build out of a network infrastructure to support major enterprises and government as either primary or redundant connectivity providing connectivity speeds ranging from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps ... GalactaCOM, as a service company, plans to offer through its subsidiaries and affiliates telecom services at data rates of between 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, billed monthly, along with other services and... (BusinessWire)
" About the Verigy V93000 The Verigy V93000 provides a scalable platform architecture for testing SoCs, system-in-packages (SIPs) and high-speed memory devices. The V93000, with more than 1,500 systems installed worldwide, meets the industry s demanding performance and cost challenges, whether for at-speed engineering characterization or high-volume production. The test system provides low cost-of-test with massive multi-site capabilities, with data rates up to 12.8 Gbps and supports a full... (BusinessWire)
8Gbps will not be a simple task, especially not if power consumption is a priority (although it might not be completely science fiction as researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently demonstrated when they transferred ). . (Future of Things)
0 Gbps ports, one IDE port, a Compact Flash connector and dual Ethernet. VIA targets the EPIA SN series for network attached storage, digital signage and point-of-sale uses. (DailyTech)
Cisco plans to make further next-generation wireless products available later this year, including a new Wireless Service Module (WiSM) blade for the Catalyst 6500 (upgraded from 40 to 48 Gbps) and new versions of Cisco s Unified Wireless Network Software and Secure Services Client. The new Catalyst blade will also be capable of powering both 802. (Datamation)
Each chassis can provide a maximum of 692 Gbps switch capacity for up to 288 Gig ports and 48 10Gig ports, all in a 9U rack. It comes with comprehensive network management, as well as the ability to scale the switches out to accommodate future growth. (Register)
The Sun Blade X8440 module also features the largest memory footprint for a blade server, providing up to 128 GB of memory per blade; and the most I/O throughput for a blade server, with six PCI Express interfaces per server module and 192 Gbps I/O throughput per blade. Additionally, the blade server is designed to support AMD's new Dual Dynamic Power Management(TM) technology, which allows the cores and memory controllers to operate on different voltages, determined by usage. (PR Newswire)
4 with a 5,400 rpm hard drive uses capacity-boosting perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and has a SATA II 3 Gbps interface ... It also supports 4 Gbps initiators and targets from QLogic, allowing users to use Multipath-I/O and modify block size on Fibre Channel target volumes to tune up performance, as well as synchronous replication for NAS and Fibre Channel ... 4 with a 5,400 rpm hard drive uses capacity-boosting perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) and has a SATA II 3 Gbps interface. (Search Storage)
The DS3400 solutions incorporate IBM SAN16B-2 Switches and IBM Emulex 4 Gbps FC 1-port PCI-E Enterprise Host Bus Adapters (). To make installation and management easier, IBM is working with Emulex to deliver "EZPilot" software to configure and manage the various components of the DS3400 Express Kit. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
The UCSD system is linked to a 50-panel high-resolution display in UC Irvine through a fiber optic Ethernet cable that can carry data at 2 Gbps. The latter system was the previous record holder at 200 megapixels. (EETimes)
The researchers have already achieved wireless data-transfer rates of 15 gigabits per second (Gbps) at a distance of one metre, 10 Gbps at 2 metres and 5 Gbps at 5 metres. At the lowest-end five Gbps, you could download 640 MB (megabytes) of data in a single second, while the 15 Gbps would mean a data transfer of almost two GB (gigabytes) in a second ... At 10 Gbps, you could download a DVD from a kiosk to your cell phone in five seconds, or you could quickly synchronise two laptops or two... (India Times, India)
Tilera doesn't skimp on the off-chip I/O, either: four DDR2 memory controllers and a complete array of high speed I/O interfaces, including two 10 Gbit/s XAUI interfaces, two 10 Gbit/s PCIe connections, two 1 Gbps Ethernet interfaces, and a programmable flexible I/O interface to support interfaces such as compact flash and disk drives, according to the company. Tilera's Tile Architecture. (PC Magazine)
Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 Highlights -- Up to 1TB of capacity -- 3 Gbps SATA for high performance and configuration flexibility -- Targeted 1. 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) -- Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for robust performance in multi-drive environments -- 5-year warranty EonStor Subsystem Highlights Supporting all RAID solutions, Infortrend enables one-stop shopping for external RAID. Some features include: -- Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI, SAS and JBOD/SBOD... (Primezone Releases)
Using the 3 Gbps throughput and Native Command Queuing features of SATA II, as well as up to 16 MB of cache, the product claims 240 megabytes per second (MBps) read performance and write performance of up to 200 MBps ... Using the 3 Gbps throughput and Native Command Queuing features of SATA II, as well as up to 16 MB of cache, the product claims 240 megabytes per second (MBps) read performance and write performance of up to 200 MBps. (Search Storage)
RapidIO technology was designed specifically for embedded in-the-box and chassis control plane applications, and emphasizes reliability with minimal latency, limited dependence, protocol extensibility, and simplified switching that provides effective data rates from 667 Mbps to 30 Gbps. Additionally, RapidIO technology features hardware-based protocol processing, support for read/write operations, messaging, data streaming, HWQoS, data plane extensions, and protocol encapsulation. (EETimes)
- Networking: Dual, virtualizable, multithreaded 10 Gbps ports with built-in packet classification ensure fast access to networks and server-to-server communications ... - Memory access: Quad memory controllers deliver more than 50 GBps of memory access. (IT News Online)
"Time Warner Telecom offers communications technologies, solutions and a 10 Gbps nationwide network, providing companies the ability to improve their communications capabilities while significantly reducing costs. Our solutions enabled Burnett Staffing Solutions to deploy their VoIP solution and fortify their entire communications network." About Time Warner Telecom Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo. provides managed network services, specializing in Ethernet and... (PR Newswire)
The company also plans to release the next-generation of wireless, with symmetrical, 1 Gbps speeds, by the end of the year, which will offer download speeds 50 times faster than currently available on ADSL 2. BigAir is already upgrading the Sydney network to the WiMAX standard, with Melbourne set to be switched on next month, the company said in a statement. (Australian IT)
The space leased through this agreement will supply Cogent Communications with another point of presence where it can continue to add customers and bandwidth to its network, which is the largest capacity IP network in existence at 160 Gbps across the United States. "Digital Realty Trust team has provided a tremendous amount of effort in making sure our presence met both our technical and business needs," said Dave Schaeffer, founder and CEO of Cogent Communications. (PR Newswire)
- 18/4 Multiservice Module: The Cisco MDS 18/4 Multiservice Module provides eighteen 4 Gbps Fiber Channel ports and four Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports ... The MDS 9222i provides eighteen 4 Gbps Fiber Channel ports, four Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports and a modular expansion slot to host switching and services modules ... - Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch: Designed for midrange to large enterprise customers, the Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch provides... (IT News Online)
The company also announced encryption for its Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) WAN optimization product; the MDS 18/4 Multiservice Module, with 18 4 Gbps Fibre Channel ports and four IP storage ports; the MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch aimed at departmental and remote branch office SANs, the MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch, which includes 4 Gbps and 10 Gbps ports and a Quick Configuration Wizard; and an N-Port virtualizer for large SAN-attached blade server deployments ... The... (Search Storage)
The modulator is made of silicon, and encodes data onto a beam of light at the rate of 40Gbps (gigabits per second) ... Starting in 2004, Intel released the 1Gbps modulator, and then a 10Gbps model. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Will Cable Boost Bandwidth to 1 Gbps, And Should It ... Will Cable Boost Bandwidth to 1 Gbps, And Should It ... You could do it [offer consumers 1 gbps of bandwidth], Britt countered. (Multichannel News)
More importantly, that will be increased to 40 Gbps wavelengths by the end of the year ... But he noted that after the Eastern wing of the network was improved, Torontos Ryerson University was provided with a 10Gbps line so it could be a member of the CineGrid digital cinema project. (ITWorld Canada)
On Wednesday, a team of Intel researchers unveiled a laser modulator made of silicon that is capable of encoding data at speeds up to 40 gigabits per second (Gbps), a significant increase in speed for the company ... The following year, Intel developed a modulator capable of encoding data at speeds up to 10Gbps ... The 40Gbps speed achieved by the company s latest modulator matches the fastest modulators made using other, more expensive components, Liu said. (MacCentral)
GEDC researchers have already achieved wireless data-transfer rates of 15 gigabits per second (Gbps) at a distance of 1 meter, 10 Gbps at 2 meters and 5 Gbps at 5 meters ... "At 10 Gbps, you could download a DVD from a kiosk to your cell phone in five seconds, or you could quickly synchronize two laptops or two iPods.". (Science Daily)
Symmetrix DMX-4 has been built from the ground up with 4 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) technology, running the newest 750 GB II disk drives alongside its Fibre Channel disk drives, as well as an enhanced Enginuity storage operating system. While EMC has offered 4 Gbps support for Clariion midrange systems for the front end of its previous DMX machines, DMX-4 is the first product where the back end gets also gets 4 Gbps play. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
As with the DMX-3 line, a "baby" model 950 will be available for the DMX-4, and this will support FICON. Symmetrix will also now support 500 GB and 750 GB SATA drives, 4 Gbps Fibre Channel connections have been added to both the front and back end, and the back-end loop has been revised to have a point-to-point connection between the controller and each disk for easier maintenance ... As with the DMX-3 line, a "baby" model 950 will be available for the DMX-4, and this will support FICON.... (Search Storage)
Emulex partners with 3Leaf, gets into Linux Server virtualization player 3Leaf SystemsTM announced that it will incorporate Emulex 4 Gbps LightPulse HBAs into its V-8000TM Virtual I/O Server ... Emulex partners with 3Leaf, gets into Linux Server virtualization player 3Leaf SystemsTM announced that it will incorporate Emulex 4 Gbps LightPulse HBAs into its V-8000TM Virtual I/O Server. (Search Storage)
As enterprise data centers move from 1 gigabit to 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) connectivity, security can often be a traffic bottleneck. Sourcefire () is aiming to break this bottleneck barrier with Sourcefire 3D9800 Sensor, a new appliance that offers intrusion prevention (IPS) (), network access control (NAC) (), vulnerability assessment (VA) and network behavior analysis (NBA) at 10Gbps speeds ... Of course, pledging such a full suite of security analysis at 10Gbps is not without its... (eSecurityPlanet)
11n access point -- along with new controllers with 28 Gbps of throughput via two 10-Gigabit and 8-Gigabit ports to handle the extra load 11n may provide. is updating its Laptop Analyzer product to look into 11n networks, since the technology is growing ever more prolific. (Datamation)
" Altix ICE specifications A single SGI Altix ICE 8200 blade can be powered by two dual-core or quad-core Intel Xeon processors and up to 32 GB of memory. It also supports dual high-speed, low-latency double data rate (DDR) backplanes for fast communication between nodes and racks, even as deployments scale to thousands of processors. By dedicating a Gigabit Ethernet network for administrative tasks, SGI frees up the 20 Gbps DDR InfiniBand connection for compute traffic. The new system also... (Search390.com)
The array also includes dual 4 Gbps Fibre Channel host connectivity and 3 Gbps point-to-point SAS connections ... Infortrend speeds up RAID arrays Infortrend unveiled two new 24-bay, 4 Gbps Fibre Channel to SATA-II RAID arrays: the EonStor (ES) A24F-R2430 redundant controller subsystem and ES A24F-G2430 single controller system ... The array also includes dual 4 Gbps Fibre Channel host connectivity and 3 Gbps point-to-point SAS connections. (Search Storage)
International Supercomputing Conference Intel Connects Cables (left) compared to 24 AWG copper cables (Photo: Business Wire) Intel Connects Cables are Intel's new high performance 20 Gbps optical cables (Photo: Business Wire) ... Intel Connects Cables enable Infiniband and 10 GbE customers to achieve data rates up to 20 Gbps and extend the reach between servers up to 100M. Enterprises can now design clusters based on their own unique business requirements, without being inhibited by cable... (BusinessWire)
Emulex, Brocade bundle SAN starter kit for HP Emulex and Brocade announced that the two companies' 4 Gbps storage area network (SAN) connectivity offerings and storage provisioning software have been incorporated into the new HP EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit. Specifically, Emulex's EZPilot SAN installation and storage provisioning software, 4 Gbps host bus adapters (HBA) and the Brocade 210E switch, which provides eight ports of 4 Gbps connectivity, have been rolled into the HP EVA4100 SAN Starter Kit... (Search Storage)
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