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Windows 7 PKI, Deployment, Management, Networking, Search, Security, Virtualization

Forget about Windows Vista, and even Vista SP1, Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client is slowly taking center stage. And even with Microsoft struggling to keep the limelight on Vista, Windows 7 is bound to attract increasing focus and to push its precursor to the background, a move that Vista never mana...

19 August 2008
08:43 GMT

Fibre-optic Broadband to Surpass Cable Globally

UK-based Point Topic has recently conducted a study regarding the expanding rate of fibre-optic broadband connections. According to its study, globally, fibre-based broadband access is expanding for the first time faster than cable. But the downside of this trend is that the relative expense of setting up fibre-based...

3 July 2008
09:37 GMT

Google Is Prepared for the Future

As of April this year, estimations are that the current number of available IPs are not going to be sufficient for all of the Earth's inhabitants. The current IPv4 Internet standard can provide networks with "only" 4 billion IP configurations, which isn't enough to cover all the 6 billion possible Internet ...

14 May 2008
04:12 GMT

Slow Internet Cuts Down on the Energy Bill

The computer networks that make the Internet are the biggest energy powerhogs worldwide. As the price of energy increases, more and more signals point to the fact that energy savings across the Internet will be the key to a greener Earth.According to a New Scientist report, Intel and Microsoft are already looking for...

7 May 2008
03:34 GMT

Vyatta 4.0 Released

Vyatta Inc - the company that builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions that provide an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors - announced yesterday the immediate availability of the fourth major release of their Open Source Linux distribution, Vyatta 4.0."Vyatt...

22 April 2008
02:44 GMT

Nimbus Forms IP Alliance on 10 GB Ethernet

A large number of networking-related brands have joined Nimbus earlier this year to form a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance. Arastra, Force10 Networks, Fujitsu, Fulcrum Microsystems, Mellanox Technologies, Neterion, and NetXen have teamed up in order to deliver complete networking ecosystem comprised of adap...

19 April 2008
06:18 GMT

OpenBlockS, The Linux Server in the Palm of Your Hand

Those of you who have had the opportunity of seeing a fully-fledged server up and running will surely have a shocking surprise, as Plat'Home, a Japanese PC vendor has just introduced its OpenBlockSTM, a pocketable server running on Linux. The device can be "hosted" directly into the palm of your hand, rather tha...

31 March 2008
10:01 GMT

Verizon: Forget DOCSIS 3.0, You'll Witness 100Gbps Networks by 2009

Verizon Busines will take networking to higher peaks in 2009, with the advent of its newest offering: 100Gbps data rates across its major routers in the United States. Fred Briggs, Verizon Business' executive vice president of operations and technology, claims that the company will implement the new speeds acros...

11 March 2008
09:40 GMT

World's Highest-Speed Computer Infrastructure, Available on a Network Near You

Europe's GEANT, the world's highest-speed computer network is currently linking up with other computer infrastructure in order to create a global research super-network. The statement has been issued by the European Commission at a recent meeting in Brussels.The GEANT network is a multi-gigabit computer net...

3 March 2008
11:13 GMT

TRENDnet's 300Mbps Wireless Upgrader Will Blow New Life Into Your Wired Router

Home networking specialist TRENDnet launched its first 300Mbps Wireless Easy-N-Upgrader, a tool that will transform your old wired router into an 802.11n-ready wireless device. The Upgrader connects to the functional, wired or wireless router and upgrades it to a wireless device to support the n draft. Wired routers ...

6 February 2008
05:45 GMT

Apple Answers MakBook Air Wireless Issues

Yesterday saw Apple posting a piece on its official website warning Mac users of problems regarding out-of-date AirPort base stations, mentioning possible networking issues with the newly-released MacBook Air. Apple has since pulled the warning post and updated it. Here's what you need to be on the lookout for, ...

1 February 2008
07:06 GMT

Rim Semiconductor to Promise 40Mbps Over Distances

The Internet-over-cable business is losing popularity on a daily basis with the advent of the new optical fiber options. More and more cable providers are trying to find a viable solution to improve network speeds without simply replacing the cable infrastructure with optical fiber backbones. The upcoming DOCSIS 3.0 ...

30 January 2008
12:00 GMT

CES 2008: Cisco Is Determined to Take Over the Home User Market

Cisco is the world leader in networking and telecommunications devices. The home Internet connection is routed by Cisco's networking gear, just as mobile communications and whatever might connect us with the rest of the planet. However, these things don't keep Cisco busy enough so the giant is determined to...

11 January 2008
04:53 GMT

Cisco: 2008 Will Shift the Company to a Consumer-Oriented Approach

Cisco Systems has announced that the company will soon unveil new lines of consumer products, such as video set-top boxes. The company aims at taking the lead in the consumer electronics business, just as they have managed to conquer the telecom and corporate sectors with their networking gear.According to the compan...

21 December 2007
05:35 GMT

Intel to Open-Source Fiber Channel over Ethernet

Intel announced the free availability of their software initiator package to support development of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology. The company has released Fibre Channel over Ethernet source code for Linux. The FcoE is still under ratification, but this is alleged to allow Fibre Channel SANs traffic ...

20 December 2007
04:37 GMT

Chelsio to Ship 10-Gigabit Ethernet Solutions for Blade Servers

Chelsio have just unveiled their T3-based Unified Wire Accelerators, expected to enable server networking, storage networking and clustering on a single IBM BladeCenter platform. The device has recently been approved for use with IBM BladeCenter enterprise servers. The new expansion card, code-named S320EM-BCH, is a ...

15 December 2007
07:40 GMT

Cisco Promises Virtual Networking Inside Users' Real Homes

No doubt, Cisco is the prevalent figure when talking about professional networking. The company's connectivity solutions are to be found in extremely large networks with overwhelming traffic as well as in the largest organizations worldwide. Having successfully dominated the business sector, Cisco has shifted fo...

13 December 2007
05:06 GMT

AT&T to Cross the Country at 40Gbps Speed

AT&T announced the availability of their coast-to-coast IP/MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) network, able to deliver speeds of up to 40Gbps. The infrastructure is powered by Cisco Systems core routers that allow the provider to quadruple the network capacity. The backbone network provides 40 Gbps speed without us...

11 December 2007
04:32 GMT

Fulcrum Brings 10 Gb Ethernet Speed

More and more chipset manufacturers include at least one Ethernet connection to go with a trendy motherboard. This is not much more expensive than a regular 10/100 Mbps card and, if necessary, it can be purchased separately should you need more than your motherboard can offer. Nvidia and Intel are only two of the pla...

30 November 2007
10:10 GMT

Vyatta 3.0 Released

Vyatta Inc - the company that builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions which provide an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors - announced yesterday the immediate availability of the third major release of their Open Source Linux distribution. Vyatta 3.0 combin...

30 October 2007
04:55 GMT

DS2 Intros 400Mbps Powerline Data Transfer Technology

Powerline communications seem to be getting increasingly popular nowadays, due to the fact that they allow users to interconnect various devices directly through the mains, without being forced to install costly (and unaesthetic) cables. And as a proof of just how fast things are evolving in this field, DS2, one of t...

22 October 2007
07:06 GMT

Microsoft Confirms Vista Multimedia Playback Degrades Networking Performance

There is an intimate connection between Windows Vista multimedia playback and networking throughput, in the sense that the first moderates the latter. Microsoft confirmed independent reports revealing that a copy of Vista involved in multimedia playback will throttle network traffic on gigabit Ethernet networks. Acco...

28 August 2007
10:45 GMT

Next Generation Networking from Microsoft

Through the various outlets of its massive Internet presence, Microsoft deals directly with the delivery of both online services and the serving of on-demand digital media content. Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks have been long time partners of the Redmond company in supporting its Internet infrastructure ...

24 August 2007
04:01 GMT

Innovative Mobile Social Networking Platform from Intercasting and Sprint

Intercasting Corporation, a top US mobile media company, announced that its innovative mobile social networking platform called ANTHEM will become available in the near future on select Sprint phones. This new networking platform was developed to allow wireless carriers to bring web content and social networking to t...

18 July 2007
08:56 GMT

12 Hidden Windows Vista Network Tools

Windows Vista delivers an impressive line up of network tools that can be used to keep the operating system connectivity on a short leash. The total of 12 command-line tools can be used to manage all aspects of Vista networking. Users will be able not only to closely monitor the networking activity of the platform, b...

28 May 2007
12:10 GMT

Windows Vista Video Networking Demonstration

Microsoft is trying high and mighty to generalize the concept that Windows Vista certification is the key to the operating system delivering the best possible user experience. This is why the company has debuted a collection of Certified for Windows Vista demo videos. The Soapbox video fragment embedded at the bottom...

24 May 2007
04:21 GMT

The Nokia Siemens and Cisco Agreement

Cisco and Nokia Siemens have decided to become partners for developing a standards-based network management platform. Their interest is to bring new services for highly developed networks.This partnership means that Cisco and Nokia Siemens will provide solutions for network resources, no matter which platform, techno...

22 May 2007
12:10 GMT

Resolve Some Windows Vista Network Problems

Despite the enhancements touted by Microsoft for Windows Vista, the operating system does come to the table with a few shortcomings. Users have found that the evolution of the Vista networking infrastructure - and, in this case, the new protocol stack introduced by the platform is an excellent example - is the source...

18 May 2007
05:17 GMT

10 Gigabit Ethernet for Marvell, from Sun Microsystems

If an Internet connection means a line to the outside world, a 10 Gigabit line represents a fully fledged open highway with five or six lanes and nobody to bother you. This technology is something that a little while back we used to look with our eyes open and say "we'll never need such high data transfer rates"...

4 April 2007
11:21 GMT

New World Record in Transmission Achieved

Not long after IBM announced a new optical chip capable of 160GB per second transfer rates, Alcatel-Lucent comes into the scene with a new world record of 25.6 Terabits per second (Tb/s), crushing the previous record of 14 Tb/s, established in September 2006. The data was transmitted over a single fiber strand, using...

28 March 2007
08:46 GMT

New Storage Solutions, from CISCO?

California based networking mogul, CISCO Systems announced on Tuesday that they have a definitive agreement to acquire NeoPath Networks, a leading provider of high performance, scalable file storage management solutions. NeoPath Networks is recognized for their SMART virtualization technology, NeoPath File Director l...

13 March 2007
12:20 GMT




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