Broadband Buffet: Last Call for Consumers? Nov 18, 2009
Get ready for the next generation of fiber coming to the home, delivering 10 Gbps downlink and 2. 5 Gbps uplink, shared among 32 locations ... 2 Gbps up that the company is currently deploying. (BusinessWeek)
NuVision Unveils Two LUCIDIUM FX5 120HZ Ultimate Performance LCD HDTVs Nov 17, 2009
2 Gbps bandwidth which yields a true end-to-end 10bit color space containing 1. 07 billion colors. (Multichannel News)
Come write to me personally your complaints, suggestions or praises, invites PM Najib Nov 10, 2009
2 million households and business premises with fibre-optics and enabling all internet subscribers to receive a fast speed of between 10 MBPs (Megabytes per second) to 1 GBPs (Gigabytes per second). The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in his opening remarks at the MSC International Advisory Panel (IAP) meeting here Tuesday said that the high speed broadband network will create a platform to develop future ICT applications, while providing the people, businesses and government agencies... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
5 new technologies that will change everything Nov 5, 2009
2 gigabits per second (gbps) of actual throughput. That transfer rate will make USB 3. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Juniper Networks Evolves Its Silicon and More Nov 1, 2009
To that end, Juniper today announced its new Junos Trio silicon which offers up to 604 Gbps of I/O capacity ... The second chip in Trio is the memory engine, which has bandwidth capacity of 120 Gbps ... For example Juniper's MX 960 router on its own can deliver 960 Gbps of bandwidth but with the MX 3D it can now deliver 2. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Fail-in-place systems: Avoiding hard disk drive failure Oct 8, 2009
5 GBps throughput from a single enclosure. Xiotech's focus is on providing increased reliability and performance from enterprise and SAS 3. (Search Storage)
Denial of service denial Oct 1, 2009
They found that the server suffers little degradation, negligible added information transfer delay (latency) and minimal extra processor usage even when the 10 Gbps pipe to the authentication server is filled with DoS packets. Indeed, the IPACF takes just 6 nanoseconds to reject a non-legitimate information packet associated with the DoS attack. (EurekAlert!)
Fujitsu Develops World's First Millimeter-Wave Gallium-Nitride Transceiver Amplifier Chipset Oct 1, 2009
This is problematic in heavily built-up areas, or areas with difficult topography, which has sparked interest in high-bandwidth wireless that is capable of data transmission capacities and speeds of 10 Gbps - on par with fiber-optic cabling - as a way to bridge the digital divide. The millimeter-wave band from 70 to 100 GHz would be an effective band to use for wireless communications running faster than 10 Gbps, as it is readily available and is appropriate for long-distances transmissions ...... (JCN Network, Japan)
Monster Continues to Lead the Way in Cables For HDMI, Offering New Connectivity Solutions for Every Need and Budget, All Engineered to Support New HDMI 1.4 Specifications Sep 22, 2009
2 Gigabit per second (Gbps) cables to the ultimate high speed HDMI 1000EX 15 ... 2 Gbps and up with the HDMI 1 ... 2 Gbps, starting at $59. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Recession can't slow Net traffic Sep 16, 2009
TGN-Intra-Asia was designed partly to alleviate bottlenecks between Japan and Singapore and currently has a capacity of 650Gb per second (Gbps). It originally was set for expansion next year, but demand has grown, partly because the cable bypasses a seismically active area around Taiwan where some other cables have suffered earthquake damage. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
New Africa broadband 'ready' Sep 16, 2009
EAST AFRICA CABLES Seacom is the first fibre optic cables to land in East Africa Links region to Europe, India and South Africa Cables have a capacity of 1280 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Other cables, including Teams and Eassy, expected to come online soon. But with the imminent availability of the 1. (BBC News -- Technology)
NAS clusters for virtualized environments Aug 27, 2009
As for network performance, 1 Gbps Ethernet should be the minimum. Organizations can bundle multiple 1 Gbps links together for higher performance, but for peak network performance -- at a steep premium -- 10 Gbps Ethernet makes sense. (Search Storage)
HD Slow Motion Gets Up to Speed Aug 24, 2009
5 Gbps uncompressed HD streams from the camera back to the control unit ... Based on the same camera head block as its normal-speed HD equivalent, the LDK 8000, the 8300 transmits video over a 3 Gbps fiber network. (Multichannel News)
Qwest cutting big allowances for top executives Aug 23, 2009
Qwest will deliver speeds ranging from 1 to 10 Gbps to each CCSD site. The added bandwidth will allow the district to centralize many technologies in its data center, expand services and provide greater access to online learning resources. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Everything You Need to Know About USB 3.0 Aug 17, 2009
8 Gbps compared with High-Speed USB 480Mbps transfer speeds. It's backwards compatible: Your existing USB 2. (BusinessWeek)
Translation Please: The Problem of Units, Part Two Aug 3, 2009
6 Gigabits per second (Gbps), reusable across nodes ... 6 Gbps should keep everybody happy for at least another two weeks. (Multichannel News)
Samsung producing 2-Gb DDR 3 at 40-nm Jul 23, 2009
6 gigabits per second (Gbps) at 1. 35 volts, up to twice as fast as an 800 Mbps 1Gb-based dual-die package, Samsung said. (EETimes)
Czech IPTV eyes new generation services Jul 22, 2009
The Czech IPTV operator Netbox has begun trialling access speeds of up to 1 Gbps. According to Digizone, its owner Smart Comp is preparing for the launch of such new generation services as Ultra HDTV and 3D broadcasting. (Multichannel News)
Inside Korea's Cyber Attack Jul 16, 2009
"We estimated that the capacity of the attack could reach about 15-20 Gbps of inbound HTTP traffic to the target site," Chesla said. "We were able to watch inbound attack volumes of about 5-6 Gbps.". (SmallBusinessComputing)
What's hot in analog technology? Jul 10, 2009
These high-speed signals may be "digital" in theory, but they exist in a Gbps analog world so they suffer distortion, group delay, phase shifts, roll off, attenuation, and noise, and all the other ills of the real world. Keeping them clean, pure, and error free, while driving them down coax or CAT5 or twisted pair cables takes specialized analog circuitry and management. (EETimes)
Cisco To Put Routers In Space Jul 8, 2009
One is an explosion in the capacity of satellites, from a typical capability of about 2Gb per second (Gbps) to as much as 150Gbps. This became possible because of technology that let satellites tap into a set of frequencies called the Ka band, as well as a new antenna technology called "spot beams." Rather than using one antenna to reach a whole continent, some satellites now have many antennas, each focused on a certain area. (BusinessWeek)
PCI compliance and Web applications: Code review or firewalls? Jul 2, 2009
Pricing varies between brands but you could easily be looking at a purchase cost of around $5,000 for something that will handle around 900 MB of throughput, rising to around $8,000 for 2 gigabites per second (Gbps). Total cost will depend upon the level of application traffic, ongoing licensing fees and personnel costs to manage and maintain your Web application firewall capability. (Search Security, MA)
NTT America Silver Sponsor of Telx CBX 2009 Jun 25, 2009
High speed, high reliability and sufficient routes characterize NTT Americafs Global IP Network, which, in April 2009, logged the fastest bandwidth currently available, 210 Gigabits per Second (Gbps), on the transpacific portion of the network, maintains industry-leading SLAs (service level agreements) and offers direct connection to major ISPs in Asia, the United States and Europe ... NTT Americafs Global IP Network offers Telx customers IP Transit bandwidth from 10mbps to 10Gbps over both... (JCN Network, Japan)
KAUST's IBM Supercomputer is Middle East's Fastest and Most Powerful System Jun 25, 2009
10 Gbps access to world's academic and research networks. Additional information about KAUST Research is available at. (PR Newswire)
Gigabit culture May 28, 2009
Seeing the country fall behind dramatically in terms of fixed Internet use the government decided to act: the end result was a seriously fast fibre-based FTTH 1Gbps (gigabits per second) (fibre-to-the-home) network at one of the lowest price-per-megabits anywhere ... Tokyo resident Nobuyuki is an enthusiastic user of Japan's so-called Hikari 1GBps service, but it has made him spoilt ... " Mobile application developer Taisuke Odajima, who uses KDDI's Hikari One service at work agrees: "I think... (BBC News -- Science)
Linux Aids Infiniband May 26, 2009
"Lots of people deploying Nehalem in HPC clusters are using 40 Gbps with Infiniband to connect and that speed has been available for almost a year now. " ... Sparks added that Infiniband has already shipped over 5 million ports at 10 Gbps or higher with 40 Gbps adopted pretty well over the past year ... Most ports currently shipping are actually 20 Gbps or 40 Gbps at this point and Sparks sees 10 Gbps Infiniband shipment on the decline from IBTA members. (Datamation)
Boost for future broadband speeds May 20, 2009
"If you look out to 2020 you start to need about 1 gigabit per second (gbps) and beyond," he added. "Although you can already get 1 or 10gbps you cannot do it at the right cost point," he said. (BBC News -- Technology)
Alcatel-Lucent's VPN Optimization in the Cloud May 16, 2009
Gulyani also said the new optimization service will fit ranges from 20 Gbps to 1 Tbps in scale, and the systems are widely deployed across Alcatel-Lucent's customer base. Gulyani explained that what the card does is it provides deep packet inspection to monitor and control enterprise VPN () traffic on a per-application basis. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Dow-Key Now Offers Fiber Optic Switching Systems May 15, 2009
This model switches signals in pure optical domain with an operating wavelength of 1530-1565 nm in C-band and a data rate of 4 Gbps. The system is configured partially as crossbar and partially as fan-out, with 8x14 I/O ports using LC connectors. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
IIJ Announces Full Year and Fourth Quarter Financial Results for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2009 May 15, 2009
Internet connectivity, especially contracts of over 1Gbps are increasing as content business operators and ISPs are adding bandwidth to their networks ... Contracts of over 1Gbps increased to 94 compared to 70 contracts at the end of March 2008, especially among contents business operators and ISPs ... Number of Contracts for Connectivity Services -------------------------------------------------------------------- March 31, March 31, YoY 2008 2007 Change... (Primezone Releases)
When will they broaden the band width so that motion blur can be eliminated? A... May 10, 2009
What Comcast's Crunched HD Looks Like. In the , the trick is to fool the human visual system into seeing things that aren;t there. (Multichannel News)
Tasmanian broadband pilot shows us the future May 8, 2009
By 2010, the average South Korean will have a connection of 100Mbps (the same as what the majority of Australians will have by the end of the NBN implementation) and by 2012, it will be 1Gbps ... At 1 Gbps you don t even have time to start the stopwatch before the show is downloaded. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
What's Selling In the Data Storage Market? May 2, 2009
This includes 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (). In the fourth quarter, users began trials of Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) Nexus 5000 switch with FCoE software and adapters from Emulex (NYSE: ELX) and QLogic (NASDAQ: QLGC), said Tam Dell'Oro, president of Dell'Oro Group. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
HP's ProCurve Moves into Hardware Security Apr 29, 2009
The new security module delivers 3 Gbps of firewall throughput, 1. 5 Gbps of IPS and 300 Mb of VPN functionality. (eSecurityPlanet)
Monster Cable lowers prices during recession Apr 28, 2009
68 gigabits per second (Gbps). Competitors offer similar cables for much less. (USA Today)
LightPointe Unveils Performance Enhanced FlightLite G Free-Space Optics (FSO) Wireless Bridging Solution Apr 15, 2009
25 Gbps Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. Like all Optical Wireless bridges the system is built around fiber-like system latency, making it ideal for voice, video, and data applications. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
IIJ America to Offer New Hosting Service, Point Red Apr 13, 2009
- The customer can opt to select dedicated Internet bandwidth, from 1 Mbps to 1 Gbps (additional fee required). - Depending on the site, additional security features, such as virus scanning and SSL, are available (additional fee required). (Primezone Releases)
Arasan Chip Systems Extends Its Strategic Mobile Initiative by Offering MIPI UniPro IP Solution Apr 11, 2009
The UniPro IP supports up to four lanes with each lane capable of data transfer of 1 Gbps. Coupled with Arasan's MIPI D-PHY solution, SoC designers have a risk-free, silicon proven, integrated UniPro solution allowing them to focus on differentiating features in their product. (Primezone Releases)
StarHub to build and operate Singapore's new broadband network Apr 4, 2009
" The Next Generation National Broadband Network is part of Singapore's "Intelligent Nation 2015" project to provide seamless connectivity around the island-state. Nucleus Connect will eventually provide nation-wide ultra-high speed broadband access of up to 1 Gbps, linking business users at the workplace, and Singaporeans at home, schools and other premises. It will also provide wholesale broadband connectivity to other operating companies and retail service providers at competitive prices that... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Xilinx Starts Shipments of Virtex-6 FPGAs Apr 1, 2009
2 Gbps transceivers enable developers of 40GbE and 100GbE wired telecom equipment to address the need for high bandwidth within the power and cooling footprints of existing data centers, while its power-saving technology helps builders of "green" base stations offer network operators the ability to realize significant reduction in OPEX and carbon emissions ... 5Gbps serial transceivers ... 5Gbps serial transceivers. (PR Newswire)
Entropic Communications Collaborates With Cavium Networks for High Performance MoCA-Enabled Home Networking Solutions Mar 25, 2009
Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to 20 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium Networks processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. (Primezone Releases)
Google exec plans 6,000-square-foot home Mar 21, 2009
This should give him approximately 20 Gbps of bandwidth that he can use to feed the 1,000 inch flat screen TV that he'll have set up in the back yard. Posted by Works for Yahoo. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Speeding up broadband Mar 21, 2009
Gbps - gigabits per second is used for transmission speeds in a network or in internal circuits. (1,000,000,000 bits per second). (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Datacenter dustup favors Cisco Mar 18, 2009
Cisco announced a server based on what it calls a -- a rack-mounted system that includes units that can support up to eight blade servers based on Intel's next-generation Nehalen processors, a set of low-latency 10Gbps Ethernet and FCoE switches and dedicated interface units called Fabric Extenders that provide up to four 10Gbps links between blade modules and the network backplane ... Each blade-server chassis comes with two 10 Gbps connections and support for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Fibre... (InfoWorld)
Fusion-io Claims Fastest, Server-Based SSD Mar 13, 2009
4 GBps read/write bandwidth, respectively. The SSD can also achieve 186,000 read IOPS and 167,000 write IOPS. For security, the new product is available with optional RAID-1 between two ioMemory modules on the same ioDrive Duo for full on a single PCIe card. (TechWeb)
Didn't edgeware release a VOD product with flash storage and 20 GBps streaming... Mar 2, 2009
Rosenstein said each box is capable of serving more than 50,000 concurrent standard-definition MPEG-2 streams, and has very high ingest capacity able to simultaneously ingest and store video assets at a rate of 7 Gbps ... Didn't edgeware release a VOD product with flash storage and 20 GBps streaming years ago. (Multichannel News)
VOD Goes Super-Size Mar 2, 2009
Rosenstein said each box is capable of serving more than 50,000 concurrent standard-definition MPEG-2 streams, and has very high ingest capacity able to simultaneously ingest and store video assets at a rate of 7 Gbps. The MDX system is currently in several beta trials with Internet portals and large cable providers, according to Rosenstein, who declined to identify them. (Multichannel News)
Collaboration a Key Element in Success of NTT America's Partner Program Feb 27, 2009
In addition, Solution Partners benefit from NTT America's industry leading provisioning and from the ability to sell 10GigE. 10GigE is a flexible, ultra high bandwidth solution designed for the largest colocation and hosting firms, large Internet Service Providers (ISPs), incumbent Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) providers, content providers with rich and streaming media, and Multiple System Operators (MSOs) with the ability to grow to a full 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps). "NTT America's approach... (JCN Network, Japan)
Juniper Touts New Network Technology Feb 26, 2009
Sindu claimed that the new silicon would provide up to 604 Gbps of input/output (I/O). "It is going to revolutionize networking engines built in silicon; we're confident of that." Sindhu said. (Datamation)
IIJ Announces Nine Months Financial Results for Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2009 Feb 12, 2009
Connectivity services were stronger than expected with contracts of over Gbps reaching 82 contracts, up 21 contracts YoY. Increased usage of video streaming or IPTV among Japanese consumers has lead CATVs and ISPs to also increase their contracted bandwidth with us ... 6% YoY as number of contracts for over Gbps services grew more than expected and other IP services has also increased respectively ... Number of Contracts for Connectivity Services... (Primezone Releases)
A boost for Internet peering and networking Feb 11, 2009
In 2007, connectivity from Malaysia to the world was a little more than 40 gigabit per second (Gbps). This year, this figure is expected to be 140Gbps and in 2011, it would grow even further to 213Gbps, he said. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Transmitting data@ 640 Gbps Feb 8, 2009
A new error-free speed-reading record using a compact ultra-fast component - 640 gigabites (billion) per second or Gbps - has now been established jointly by scientists from Denmark and Australia ... Conventional readers of optical data depend on photo-detectors, electronic devices that can operate up to approximately 40 Gbps ... In other words, 10 parallel streams of data could each be sent at a rate of 10 Gbps and then added up to an effective stream of 100 Gbps. (Sify.com, India)
