Ethernet is ubiquitous—it is the core technology that defines the Internet and serves to connect the world in ways that people could not imagine even one generation ago. HPC clusters are working on ...

Ethernet is on the verge of one of its biggest makeovers in some time. Before the end of the year, five different IEEE 802.3 task forces are scheduled to finish their work on Ethernet-related ...

The IEEE 802.16 Ethernet standard for wireless metropolitan-area networks (MANs) is opening up a new area of communications, though no one knows what shape the market will eventually take. Even though ...

Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, that's changed. Cat6 is now considered the minimum standard for networking, ...

The 40G/100G Ethernet standard has been ratified, the first specification to simultaneously utilize two new Ethernet speeds. The IEEE 802.3ba standard was ratified last Thursday, according to the IEEE ...

Leading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The new FCoE specification is designed to ...

An approved final draft of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet standard will mean more choices as vendors develop standard-compliant products. However, high prices will likely slow development of this market.

For nearly 15 years, consumer-grade Ethernet performance has stagnated at gigabits speeds, bottlenecked by the high cost of replacing all existing cables with the Cat6a and Cat7 needed to pull speeds ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.’s (IEEE) 802.3 Ethernet standards group approved the final draft of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard this week, clearing the way for vendors ...

Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease ...

Robert Metcalfe, David Boggs, and their associates really started something back in 1973 when they invented Ethernet. It started out as just one of many contenders for LAN supremacy and essentially ...

Storage vendors including Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Emulex Corp., IBM, Intel, Nuova, QLogic Corp., and Sun Microsystems Inc. are proposing a Fibre Channel ...