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- SAN Next Generation - Moving to 4 Gbps
- The Fibre Channel FC storage industry has begun the transition to the 4 Gbps interface standard. This is a natural evolution from the 1 and 2 Gbps standards that preceded it. The new standard doubles the speed of the storage communication interface and will lead over time to improvements in...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAN, Gbps, Fibre Channel Storage Industry, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Gartner: Fiber capacity will quadruple by 2005
- The standard implements new technology to compensate for polarization mode dispersion, a signal distortion problem that typically accompanies higher data rates. Optical networks should experience a four-fold bandwidth increase (from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps) at just 2.5 times the cost — the traditional point at which economies of scale...
- Tags: Gbps
- Blog posts 2003-11-13
- Cisco EtherChannel Technology
- Cisco EtherChannel technology builds upon standards-based 802.3 full-duplex Fast Ethernet to provide network managers with a reliable, high-speed solution for the campus network backbone. EtherChannel technology provides bandwidth scalability within the campus by providing up to 800 Mbps, 8 Gbps, or 80 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth for a Fast EtherChannel,...
- Tags: Network, Gbps, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco EtherChannel Technology, EtherChannel Technology, Networking
- White papers 2003-02-05
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- Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection
- Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As discussed in this paper the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data...
- Tags: Storage Networking, Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Data Centers, Storage, Ip storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidth
- Last night's inaugural, Skype co-sponsored webcast of Oprah Winfrey's Oprah.com New Earth Event scored 500,000 simultaneous log-ins. That would be all well and good, but the gathering multitudes resulted in 242 Gbps of information moving over the 'net at the same time. ...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Webcast, Statement, Oprah Winfrey, Podcasts, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Google makes its infrastructure move; Buys chunk of Trans-Pacific undersea cable
- Google on Tuesday announced that it is part of a consortium of six companies building a high-bandwidth undersea cable connecting the U.S. and Japan. In a statement, Google said cable will cost about $300 million and give Google access to capacity of 7.68 terabits per second Tbps....
- Tags: Google Inc., Fiber, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers
- The Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router is Cisco's next-generation, modular, highly services-integrated routing platform designed with the flexibility to support a wide range of 4- to 8-Mpps packet forwarding, 5- to 10-Gbps system bandwidths at the time of First Customer Shipment FCS, performance, and scaling. The overall system...
- Tags: Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Router
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100Necessary?I'm not sure even the "hardcore gamer" needs a 10Gbit home network. Heck, I stream HD content and I don't even have a need for a gigabit network... yet.Unless you're hammering the bejesus out of your network, it's not necessary. Neat though it...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Games, GigE, latency, network, Gbit home network, GBit, home network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstation
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstationIndeed but not at $3000You built a server not a wrkstation, and a stripped down server at that, without disk or memory, and without a decent workstation class garphic card.If you want to build a dual xeon with 1600 FSB today, and still...
- Tags: Workstations, MAC Pro, RAM, Apple Inc., workstation, memory
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- DataDirect's "sleep mode" for green storage
- Since I seem to have green storage on the brain, wanted to point out some technology I was briefed on last week before checking out for the holiday weekend. The outreach from this company was prompted by my post earlier this month about whether data centers are meant to be...
- Tags: Software, DataDirect, DataDirect Networks, Goldstein, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- 120 Mbps upstream? Even 30 Mbps? Come on- who really needs it?
- Note: I've amended this post with corrective information, including this from our networking guru, George Ou. George,an actual engineer, points out: You cannot claim DOCSIS 3.0 is 160/120 down/up service and compare it to 50/30 down/up FiOS service. That is grossly misleading. 160/120 down/up in...
- Tags: Wavelength, DOCSIS, Mbps, Home, FiOS, Cable, Broadband Internet, Corporate Communications, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 Architecture
- The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32 is the latest addition to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Family of supervisor modules. Designed primarily for access layer deployments, the Supervisor Engine 32 provides Layer 2 bridging and Layer 2 through 4 services with Layer 3 routing optional hardware-accelerated services. It provides connectivity...
- Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Layer 2, Supervisor, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Catalyst 6500 Supervisor Engine 32, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-12-01
- More images and products from supercomputing 2007
- The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference. Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...
- Tags: Processor, Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Tyan, 1U, TST, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- I had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where I saw one of the biggest super computers in the world. Pictured left is a 1024-core version of the Altix 4700 and NASA just bought one with twice as many...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Processor, NASA, Supercomputer, Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., SPECint_rate2006, SPECfp_rate2006, UNIX, Processors, InfiniBand, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 6-E CenterFlex Technology
- Cisco CenterFlex technology, innovations enabled by the centralized Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASIC complex at the heart of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 6-E, addresses the need for improved network performance, investment protection, and innovative new features. Cisco CenterFlex technology provides for system bandwidth of up to 320 Gbps...
- Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Supervisor, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco CenterFlex Technology
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?
- Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?There are still jobs for CobolAlways a problem basing conclusions on one-off anecdotes or personal experience. There are still plenty of jobs for COBOL programmers too.Java was too slow, too late and too much trouble. Just as there are die-hards...
- Tags: Programming languages, Domain names, Network technology, COBOL, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-24
- Flash drives get a fight from disks
- I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to see flash drives moving into the notebook mainstream....
- Tags: Notebook, Disk, Seagate Momentus, Performance, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., USB Flash Drive, Bottom Line, Seagate Technology LLC, RPM, GB Mtron, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Analysis of Sun's 'Niagara 2' UltraSPARC T2
- Sun Microsystems launched their brand new "Niagara 2" UltraSPARC T2 8-core CPU last Tuesday August 7th 2007 as the successor to the UltraSPARC T1 8-core CPU launched in November of 2005. During the launch Sun's executive VP David Yen took a few shots at big iron competitors IBM and Intel...
- Tags: T2, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Server, Analysis, Intel Corp., UltraSPARC T2, T2 CPU, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Twisted-Pair Ethernet: Copper Cabling for High Performance Networking
- Ethernet has become the default network communications protocol and has evolved from first generation 10 Megabits per second Mbps speeds that were predominant in the early 1990s to the 10 Gigabits per second (10 Gbps) of today's networks. According to Dell'Oro, by the end of 2007, it was expected that...
- Tags: Copper, Performance, High-performance, Anixter, Performance Management, Ethernet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking
- White papers 2007-09-06
- Unified Communications Delivers 'Convergence Innovation' and the Foundation for Success
- The MaRS Discovery District is a 700,000-square-foot next-generation research facility, bringing together academic, business, capital and scientific research communities to collaborate on and commercialize new scientific discoveries. Central to MaRS' success was a leading-edge information technology infrastructure capable of serving as the foundation for advanced collaboration and research. A Nortel...
- Tags: Innovation, Multimedia, Nortel Networks Corp., Unified Communications, MaRS Discovery District
- Case studies 2007-08-24
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