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Emulex 10Gb/s Ethernet connectivity to support eight IBM systems (Mar 2, 2010)

Emulex announced that its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) architecture will provide 10Gb/s Ethernet integration into five enterprise-class and high-volume IBM server platforms.

Aquantia ramps 10GBASE-T PHY production for 10G Ethernet data center connectivity (Feb 10, 2010)

The company has entered full volume production on the AQ 1002, its flagship low-power 10GBASE-T PHY solution. 

Fulcrum's FocalPoint 10GE silicon tapped for Fortinet's 10-GbE data center switch (Feb 1, 2010)

Fulcrum Microsystems’ FocalPoint FM4224, a 24-port 10-GbE semiconductor device, is being used by Fortinet as the switching fabric for that company’s recently launched FortiSwitch-1000, a chassis-based 10-GbE data center switch.

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Targeting virtualized data centers, Brocade FCX Series doubles 10-GbE uplinks (Feb 19, 2010)

The switches have an optional 4-port 10-GbE module, doubling the number of 10-GbE connections between network layers and making them ideal for virtual data centers.

Multi-protocol transceiver chip extends reach, reduces gauge of copper cabling (Feb 9, 2010)

Phyworks says its PHY2210 equalizing cable transceiver enables cable manufacturers to extend the reach and reduce the gauge of active copper cable assemblies supporting all standard data rates 1 to 10.5 Gbps. The transceiver provides a single design platform for multiple protocols, suiting SFP+ active copper cables, Infiniband cables, 6.25G backplanes, Fibre Channel (1G, 2G, 4G and 8G) and Ethernet (1G, 10G) networks.

Avago intros new dual-rate SFP+ transceivers for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Jan 25, 2010)

Avago Technologies has further expanded its family of SFP+ optical transceiver modules for 10-Gbps Ethernet equipment designs. The new SFP+ transceiver series include the 10/1-Gbps dual-rate AFCT-701SDDZ 10GBase-Long Range (LR) singlemode and AFBR-703SDDZ 10GBase-Short Range (SR) multimode fiber transceivers for use in enterprise and data center applications.

The Cabling Blog
Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

Copper connectors putting Large Hadron Collider out of commission

Are you familiar with the Large Hadron Collider? I knew nothing about it until I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Then it started popping up in the news all the time, so it seemed. The LHC -- I don't know if that's its real abbreviation or not -- is a...

You aren't planning to abandon that cable, are you Uncle Sam?

Government Computer News (GCN) is reporting that cabling-integration firm Automated Systems Design (ASD) was contracted to install the cabling for some 500 temporary offices for the Census Bureau as that government entity ramped up for its data-collection...

TIA TR-42 subcommittee elections bring new names to the fore

While posting to our Web site the news about the recent election of new chairs and vice-chairs for TR-42 and several of its subcommittees, I was reminded of a conversation I had several years ago with an executive of the training organization BICSI.It was...

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Examining shielded-cabling for ultra-high-speed transmission ...
... was called into question during the early development stages of cabling systems meant to support 10GBase-T, the twisted-pair version of 10-Gigabit Ethernet. ...

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Data centers slowly shifting to converged networking - Cabling ...
... network interface card (NIC) with the storage connectivity of a Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) via FCoE onto a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface card. ...

Converged network fabrics promise reduced complexity - Cabling ...
... Combining the two and sending storage traffic over Internet Protocol (IP) networks requires two things: 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) transmission speed and ...

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