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IP: New Versions of Ethernet Promise Swift Improvements in Communications
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 06:05:09 -0700
From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: New Versions of Ethernet Promise Swift Improvements in Communications Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 22:25:50 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/05net.html New Versions of Ethernet Promise Swift Improvements in Communications By JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Several years ago, with tongue only partially planted in cheek, Intel's chairman, Andrew Grove, made an observation: Unlike the chip industry, where processing speeds double every 18 months or so, the moribund telecommunications world seemed to double its speed only about once a century. But here on a test bench at Agilent Technologies is clear evidence that may give lie to Grove's Law -- evidence that the nation's communications networks could be poised for sweeping improvements in speed and efficiency that could rival the breakneck pace of breakthroughs in the chip industry. Using inexpensive high-speed semiconductor components, lasers and mirrors, a small group of Agilent researchers have fashioned a palm-size device capable of shuttling data at 10 billion bits -- or 10 gigabits -- a second. <snip> But this is not your father's Ethernet; it is Ethernet 3,000 thousand times as fast as the original versions. At the rate the technology is evolving, some analysts expect office desktop computers to soon have access to data networks with speed and power formerly available only in the nation's best research laboratories -- but at prices no higher than today's standard business-office Internet connections. <snip> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Geoff_Goodfellow () iconia com, Prague CZ * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 "Success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get" http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html
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