Storage Fit for a Superhero Jun 24, 2008
Titan supports five gigabits per second of throughput performance at the entry level or 10 Gbps of data throughput in a high-performance configuration. The object-based file system scales to two petabytes and supports virtual volumes containers for managing data capacity which can expand to meet allocation needs. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Canadians have a need for speed but lack fibre Jun 19, 2008
25 gigabits per second (Gbps) of data transmission, which may be as much as 100 times faster than so called 'high-speed internet providers. At minimum, the homes with fibre will have 100 Mbps [connections. (Globe and Mail)
Fujitsu Develops Millimeter-Band Transmitter Capable of Data Transmission Speeds Exceeding 10 Gbps Jun 19, 2008
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Gennum Expands ActiveConnect(TM) Family to Enable Industry's Thinnest, Longest Reach HDMI Cables Jun 17, 2008
Supporting 6 gigabits per second (Gbps) per channel, almost twice the 3. 4Gbps/channel required by the HDMI 1 ... "In addition, the new solution doubles the reach of existing HDMI 1.3 Category 2 consumer cables from 10 meters to 20 meters with full-rate HDMI performance, while providing additional performance headroom scalable to 6Gbps/channel. As a result, consumers can realize the full benefits of HDMI 1.3 today, including 1080p deep color, and future-proof their home theater systems for... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Server Snapshots: Dell PowerEdge M Series Blades Jun 17, 2008
For those wanting to use , for example, the enclosure comes with a Brocade 4 Gbps switch and a lower-cost Brocade port aggregator. This is courtesy of Dell FlexIO.. (Datamation)
Broadband Providers Cap Monthly Usage Jun 16, 2008
On the first issue, if an ISP has 500 people connected to a central office DSLAM (a DSL aggregator) with a total downstream bandwidth of 2 Gbps, there's no universe in which a phone company makes available 2 Gbps to that location. Rather, they allot a fraction of that, which works when traffic is bursty, not continuous. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Ericsson to Showcase the Television Experience of Tomorrow at NXTcomm 2008 Jun 14, 2008
The flexible MHL3000 is a long-haul, high-capacity (up to 320 Gbps) system designed to deliver as much content as operators need, as far as they need it to go. The OMS 1400 receives the content and distributes it over efficient optical Ethernet links. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Samplify Systems Announces Availability of Compression for Computed Tomography; Integrated Slip-Ring Solution to be Jointly Developed with Schleifring und Apparatebau and Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. May 13, 2008
With each x-ray detector feeding a high resolution analog to digital converter channel, high end CT machines require hundreds of thousands of detectors whose aggregate data requirement exceeds 10 Gbps ... 25 Gbps will be demonstrated in TED's booth in the Xilinx Partner Pavilion at the Japan Embedded Systems Exposition and Convention (ESEC), May 14-16, 2008 at the Tokyo International Exhibits Convention Center (Tokyo Big Sight) ... 5 Gbps are targeted for end of second quarter 2008. (PR Newswire)
PCI compliance and Web applications: Code review or firewalls? May 9, 2008
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)
Samplify Systems Adds Computed Tomography Expert Carl Crawford to Technical Team May 8, 2008
With each X-ray detector feeding a high resolution analog to digital converter channel (ADC), high-end CT machines require hundreds of thousands of detectors whose aggregate data requirements exceed 10 Gbps. The slip-ring is a rotary joint which provides the primary communications mechanism from these ADCs to the host workstation. (PR Newswire)
McAfee, Inc. Delivers World's Most Powerful Network Security Platforms Apr 22, 2008
New 10Gbps IPS, E-mail and Web Security Platforms Break the 'LAN Speed Barrier' while Providing Uncompromised Security and Performance LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- INFOSECURITY EUROPE -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: ) today announced two products that strengthen the company's leadership position in network security ... McAfee Network Security Platform is the only single product solution with the breadth of coverage and performance and true 10Gbps performance ... Customers also receive... (PR Newswire)
National Semiconductor's 3 Gbps SDI SerDes Wins EDN Innovation of the Year Award Apr 17, 2008
April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDN Magazine selected National Semiconductor's (NYSE: ) multi-rate 3 Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) SerDes chipset from hundreds of entries as mixed-signal application-specific standard product (ASSP) innovation of the year in its 18th Annual Innovation Awards ... National's LMH0340 and LMH0341 are the industry's first discrete SDI serializer and deserializer to support the new 3 Gbps SDI specification, SMPTE 424M, defined by the Society of Motion Picture... (PR Newswire)
Check Point Expands UTM Appliance Line with Increased Security Performance and Lower Entry Point Model Apr 15, 2008
1 Gbps firewall throughput, 250 Mbps VPN throughput, three managed sites and four ports ... 5 Gbps firewall throughput, 1. (BusinessWire)
Canon's New XL H1S and XL H1A HD Camcorders Provide Advanced Features for Enhanced Control and Operation Apr 11, 2008
485 Gbps signal for demanding live production environments, SMPTE Time Code input and output terminals, and a Genlock output terminal for multi-camera shooting situations. The new XL H1S and XL H1A HD camcorders continue to meet the needs of producers, event videographers, and digital cinematographers with superior Canon optical and imaging technology, and with the most cost-effective medium for high-quality HD video capture and storage, which is HDV tape, noted Yuichi Ishizuka, senior vice... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Tata Comm shares fall 12% on dispute Apr 9, 2008
With technological advances, Flag Telecom is now in a position to enhance the capacity of cable system from 10 Gbps to 80 Gbps and for this it needs access to Mumbai landing station. But VSNL's stand was that under the construction and maintenance agreement between the two, it was not obliged to grant access to Flag. (India Times)
Juniper Revamps Intrusion Prevention Gear Apr 8, 2008
07, 2008 From the April 07, 2008 issue of ChannelWeb Juniper Networks unveiled a new family of IDP (intrusion detection and prevention) appliances at the RSA Conference in San Francisco Monday, wrapping in a host of new features and introducing a high-end model that can scale to up to 10 Gbps of inspection ... Foxhoven said one customer in particular has been "chomping at the bit" for the 8200 because Juniper's last high-end model, the IDP 1100 couldn't scale to 10 Gbps, restricting where it... (CRN)
VeriSign Raises Doman Name Fees Again Mar 30, 2008
VeriSign also plans to increase the network bandwidth of its primary resolution centers around the world to more than 200 Gbps second from 20 Gbps. VeriSign's took effect on Oct. 15. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
VeriSign says domain name fees rising Mar 28, 2008
It said it expected to increase its daily DNS query capacity from 400 billion queries a day to over 4 trillion queries a day and will increase the aggregate network bandwidth of its primary resolution centers around the world from more than 20 gigabits per second to more than 200 Gbps per second. Related Industry News. (San Jose Business Journal)
Verizon Business Works With Asian Partners to Activate, Ahead of Schedule, U.S.-Mainland China Leg of Trans-Pacific Express Mar 18, 2008
This also will be the first time individual customers can have direct submarine cable connectivity from the U.S. to China at wavelengths of up to 10 gigabits per second (Gbps). The cable system has a U.S. landing point provided by Verizon Business at Nedonna Beach, Ore. (PR Newswire)
ECI Telecom Unveils the First Transport-Optimized Carrier Ethernet Portfolio Mar 17, 2008
Initially, the system supports 40Gbps per slot, with the ability to scale up to 100 Gbps per slot and 1 Tbps per shelf in the future ... The 9700 Series includes native hardware acceleration necessary to support scalable deployment of Carrier Ethernet OAM performance and fault management protocols combined with the multilayer management capabilities of the LightSoft NMS. The SR9710 is a 10-slot, 400 Gbps system, and the SR9705 is a 5-slot 200 Gbps system with full interchangeability of line... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Researchers transmit optical data at 16.4 Tbps Feb 29, 2008
The goal of 100 Gbps Ethernet transmissions is closer to reality with the announcement Wednesday that Alcatel-Lucent researchers have recorded an optical transmission record along with three photonic integrated circuits ... The researchers used 164 wavelength-division multiplexed channels modulated at 100 Gbps in the effort ... Also accepted at the OFC/NFOEC conference were three papers from researchers at Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J. The three papers describe the development of three photonic... (EETimes)
Toshiba Introduces High-Performance 5,400 RPM 1.8-Inch HDDs With Micro-SATA Connector Feb 26, 2008
5 Gbps, Serial ATA 1. 5 Gbps, Revision 2. (PR Newswire)
Pacnet Expands Subsea Cable Network with EAC Pacific Feb 26, 2008
Each of the fiber pairs of the Unity cable system are capable of carrying up to 960 Gbps, and the cable system can scale up to eight fiber pairs. Initial capacity from Unity is expected by the first quarter of 2010. (PR Newswire)
Global Consortium to Construct New Cable System Linking US and Japan to Meet Increasing Bandwidth Demands Feb 26, 2008
"The Unity cable system allows the members of the consortium to provide the increased capacity needed as more applications and services migrate online, giving users faster and more reliable connectivity,'' said Unity spokesperson Jayne Stowell. The Unity consortium is a joint effort by Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel. The name Unity was chosen to signify a new type of consortium, born out of potentially competing systems, to emerge as a system within a... (PR Newswire)
Rambus Picks Verigy V93000 HSM Series for Testing Next-Generation Ultra-High-Speed Memory Devices Feb 26, 2008
8 Gbps, delivering the ultra-high speed required for XDR and future generations of Rambus leadership memories. The XDR interface represents the next step in high-bandwidth interfaces for gaming, multi-core computing, and other consumer electronics applications, supplying up to five times more usable bandwidth to memory controllers than today's best competing memory technologies. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Aussie Researchers Build GiFi, A Tiny Chip With Big Wireless Capabilities Feb 24, 2008
Researchers in Australia have developed a tiny chip that can transmit data wirelessly at 5 Gbps over a distance of nearly 11 yards, a capability that could have a major impact on the way consumer electronics, such as digital TVs, mobile phones, and DVD players, communicate with each other, a newspaper reported Friday. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
More Business Stories Technology Headlines Japan successfully launches high-speed Internet satellite Feb 24, 2008
2 Gbps, which would make it the fastest in the world, the agency said. That rate would translate to 150 times that of the average high-speed ADSL connection rate of 8 Mbps, or 12 times the speed of a fibre-optic communication delivery to a person's premises (FTTP). (Yahoo! Asia News)
MIPS Technologies Extends Digital Consumer Leadership With Industry's First HDMI 65nm IP Solution Feb 20, 2008
65 Gbps per TDMS channel (approximately 5 Gbps in total) and video resolutions up to 1080p at 60Hz ... 2 Gbps for applications demanding higher data rates ... 2 Gbps and video resolutions to 1080p at 120Hz, 1440p and beyond. (PR Newswire)
VeriSign Strengthens DNS For IPv6 Feb 14, 2008
The initiative is expected to scale VeriSign's infrastructure from 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) capacity to more than 200Gbps. It's also expected to expand the daily DNS query volume that VeriSign can handle from 400 billion to 4 trillion. (Datamation)
National Semiconductor's Smart SerDes and SIMPLE SWITCHER Family Named Finalists in EDN Magazine's 18th Annual Innovation Awards Feb 6, 2008
The multi-rate 3 Gbps LMH0340 and LMH0341 are the industry's first discrete SDI serializer and deserializer to support the new Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 424M specification. They enable the broadcast equipment industry to develop systems that support transmission and processing of serial, uncompressed 1080p60 high-definition (HD) video. (PR Newswire)
NEC Develops 60-GHz-Band CMOS Transceiver With World's Highest Output Power Feb 6, 2008
6 gigabits per second (Gbps). The 60-GHz band is suited to high-speed wireless transmissions with bit rates exceeding 2 gigabits per second (Gbps), and has been adopted as the license-free band in the U.S., Canada and Japan ... 6-Gbps data transmission under quadrature-phase-shift-keying (QPSK) modulation. (PR Newswire)
NEC Develops World's First Data-recovering LSI With Waveform Detection and Automatic Decision-point Optimization Capability Feb 6, 2008
Enables higher receiver performance of 40Gbps and beyond optical transmission systems TOKYO and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in the development of a new data-recovering large scale integrated circuit (LSI), which will enable substantial improvement in data-receiving performance of 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) and beyond optical fiber transmission systems. This is the world's first(1) chip to incorporate an adaptive data-decision... (PR Newswire)
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative Announces Major Network Expansion Feb 5, 2008
The addition of the Infinera DTN system to MBC's regional network increased the network's operational capacity tenfold to 100 Gigabits/second (Gbps), ensuring that MBC will be able to meet the high-bandwidth wholesale optical transport demands of major telecom carriers and service providers that need access to new data centers in the Southside Virginia region. ADVERTISEMENT. (Primezone Releases)
Hydra-headed nature helps Net rebound after cable cut Feb 4, 2008
Ten years ago, the whole of India had only 1 gigabits per second (gbps) of international connectivity through these cables. That was what 500 high-speed internet users in the United States enjoyed. (Economic Times)
Dinwiddie schools to upgrade network Feb 3, 2008
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
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)
Storage Outlook '08: Improving disk-based backup Dec 27, 2007
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)
Storage Outlook '08: Building out iSCSI SANs Dec 25, 2007
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 bounces back in Fibre Channel switch market Dec 14, 2007
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)
AT&T debuts higher-speed network Dec 11, 2007
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)
AT&T fires up new high-speed backbone network Dec 11, 2007
Both companies plan to push the 40-gigabit standard in the United States and eventually upgrade to 100 Gbps. (Agencies). (Xinhuanet, China)
HP's Revamped Storage Switch Slate Dec 7, 2007
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)
Photo Release -- Foundry Networks Helps Propel Record Traffic At the World's Largest Public Internet Exchange Dec 4, 2007
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)
Brocade: No slowdown in storage spending Dec 1, 2007
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)
Dell storage sales show modest growth Dec 1, 2007
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 Names John Barton New CEO Nov 27, 2007
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)
