Network Protocols: Cabling Installation and Maintenance

Solarflare names new VP of engineering (Aug 11, 2010)

Dave Parry joins Solarflare with extensive experience leading teams that design and bring to market high-performance server and networking products.

UNH-IOL launches IEEE 802.3ba consortium for 40G/100G Ethernet standard (Jul 30, 2010)

The consortium is currently accepting founding member companies who will have an early opportunity to provide input into the testing process and have market-ready products as the high speed Ethernet standards evolve.

OIF wraps agreements for 100G module implementation (Jul 14, 2010)

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has finalized two implementation agreements (IAs) addressing the key electro-mechanical aspects of a 100G long-haul transmission module.

Siemon adds QSFP+ 40G active optical cable (Jul 2, 2010)

Siemon's Moray QSFP+ 40G active optical cable assemblies incorporate Silicon CMOS Photonics technology developed by Luxtera.

CFP MSA updates hardware, firmware docs for 40G/100G optical transceivers (Jun 28, 2010)

In addition, Avago Technologies was added as a consortium member.

Ixia, Deutsche Telekom lay 100G groundwork (Jun 14, 2010)

Ixia has assisted Deutsche Telekom in pre-deployment testing of 100 Gbps network links.

Solarflare unveils dual-port, triple-speed 10GBASE-T server adapter for virtualized data centers (Jun 8, 2010)

By enabling IT managers to leverage investments in installed copper cabling and legacy 1000BASE-T equipment, the company says its SolarStorm SFN5121T adapter will accelerate deployment of 10GbE networks.

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by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

The U.K. chainsaw cabling massacre

Bloomberg is reporting that over the course of a week, thieves in England used chainsaws to cut down as many as 14 utility poles, then stole the copper-based electrical wiring that the poles supported.In the neighborhood of 7,000 customers lost power in...

Guest Blog: Master Format 2010 - What's new?

by Felix ZayasJuly 28, 2010In the telecommunications field the term "MasterFormat" can be somewhat of a convoluted term. For the next 350 words or so I will go through the finer details of MasterFormat and how it relates to telecommunications.MasterFormat...

Tweet this: New data center for Twitter is overdue

Twitter announced on its Engineering Blog that later this year it will open its own dedicated data center in the Salt Lake City area. The microblogger's Jean Paul Cozzatti said in his post that the dedicated data center will allow Twitter to "have full...

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