We’ve been here before. When Gigabit Ethernet arrived in the late 1990s, network managers could take the order of magnitude leap to true Gigabit or create “fractional” Gigabit links by using ...

Imagine a data center with 250 servers. From midnight to 2 a.m. every day, the servers replicate to a single target that will later stream the data to tape. There's about 2.5 Gbps of throughput ...

For larger companies, that may mean a switch to 10-Gigabit Ethernet for at least parts of the corporate backbone. Though solution providers say 10G Ethernet remains a specialized niche at this point, ...

Enterasys Networks is expected to soon expand its 10Gigabit Ethernet switching line with modules for its high-end platforms and new edge devices. Next month, the company plans to unveil new modules ...

Network vendors this week are expected to introduce a variety of 10G Ethernet wares aimed at customers seeking to bump up bandwidth in large data centers and campus backbones. Products range from ...

While observers have largely preordained 10 Gigabit Ethernet as a carrier technology, Enterasys Networks is betting companies will be hungry for that kind of bandwidth too. The Cabletron spinoff this ...

Enclosure manufacturer Akitio has started to ship the Thunder3 10G Network Adapter, an accessory for an iMac or MacBook Pro offering connectivity to an ethernet network at speeds of up to 10 gigabits ...

Avago Technologies announced the interoperability demonstration of its new quad-channel single-mode 10G Ethernet QSFP+ optical transceiver, the Avago QSFP+ eSM4 solution. The demonstration will be in ...

The IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-T committee is currently finishing the specification for 10G Ethernet on twisted pair copper cabling. The specification will be ratified as an Ethernet 802.3 standard by June ...

When I started using the internet, I was glad to have a 300-baud modem hook-up. A serious business connection was a T-1, which could reach an amazing 1.54 Megabit per second (Mbps) of throughput.

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Video over 10G Ethernet offers some big advantages over traditional cables and fiber. Here's a deep dive into why you should be considering it for your production. To the relief of broadcast ...