The Ethernet Alliance announced during last year’s Technology Exploration Forum (TEF) that it would be pursuing a series of 5 new Ethernet standards: 2.5 GbE, 5 GbE, 25 GbE, 50 GbE, and 400 GbE. Instead of pursuing increasingly faster rates, the consortium showed greater sensitivity towards pursuing standards specific to certain networking environments and cost-efficiency. […]
The IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Phototonics Society, and the Optical Society Association will be sponsoring the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) on March 22nd-26th. The exposition itself will be taking place on March 24th-26th. The conference will report on the latest breakthroughs in the fiber optics and photonics industry. Ranked as the […]
Even though at first glance desktop VoIP phones and traditional phones appear identical, they’re not. Even the simplest VoIP phones are considered computers. This enables VoIP phones to offer a much more dynamic approach to communication than traditional analog telephone lines. VoIP phones rely on the internet to send digital packets. Unlike the analog signals […]
As the demand for faster bandwidth continues to increase, Telecoms will now have the opportunity to offer broadband at fiber-like speeds and forego the expensive costs associated with deploying fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). G. Fast chipsets will allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to utilize their existing telephone copper lines to provide high-speed broadband services with speeds of up […]
Federal Communication’s Chairman (FCC) Tom Wheeler has finally proposed new rules that firmly protect net neutrality and prevent the internet from being reclassified as a telecommunications service. The FCC has published a new commission document upholding that the internet be preserved as a place of innovation and competition. The release statement indicates that the new […]
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a practical technology that facilitates network deployment in sites where power is absent. PoE is not only utile in enterprises and vertical markets, but the technology also offers the same type of versatility in industrial environments. Industrial PoE deployment is ideal for infrastructures seeking for a cost-effective mode of deploying a network where […]
All People Seem To Need Data Processing is not only a fact of life, it’s also a mnemonic to help computer network technicians remember the OSI model and help isolate problems when troubleshooting networks. Even though the OSI model utilizes the TCP/IP protocol, the model was originally designed by the Open Systems Interconnection group to promote […]
Sckipio Technologies showcased its G.Fast technology at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show and teased broadband providers by streaming 4k content over traditional copper phone lines. The 16-port G.Fast chipset can stream content at up to 1 Gbps (actual speeds depend on distance from the distribution point) and gives internet service providers (ISP’s) the ability […]
Inventors working in the hardware sector of technology oftentimes fail to receive recognition from mainstream consumers, but it’s safe to say that Robert Metcalfe has become household name in the computer networking industry. Robert Metcalfe is a Swiss army knife for technology-not only did he invent Ethernet, he’s also an engineer, a pundit, a marketer, […]
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QR codes are highly functional bar codes that have proved to be a slippery form of advertisement for marketers. QR codes can take users directly to a website, verify the legitimacy of a degree, or if put on a resume, redirect an employer to a candidate’s website with a simple scan. Despite their advantages however, […]