Posts Tagged ‘Ethernet’
New fibre optic sub-sea cable goes live today, createing a digital superhighway from Africa to Europe, Asia and beyond
London, 23 July, 2009 – SEACOM’s sub-sea cable has launched today, providing southern and eastern Africa with high capacity connectivity at much lower rates than traditional satellite networks. The 17,000 kilometre intercontinental fibre optic network will [...]
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Tags: Ethernet
Tunisie Telecom has signed a contract with Interoute to establish a subsea cable linking North Africa to Interoute’s pan-European fibre optic network. The cable, due to land in Sicily in October, gives Tunisia ownership over the flow of its internet traffic and removes the reliance on consortium owned subsea cables such as SEAMEWE 4. [...]
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Tags: cable, Ethernet, interoute
Interoute owner of the most advanced next-generation network in Europe worked around the clock to replace a 1200km section on one of its largest customer’s network that was experiencing rapid degradation. From ‘order to delivery’ the solution took only 48 hours enabling significant volumes of Internet traffic to continue to flow without any disruption to [...]
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Tags: Ethernet, interoute, Voip
Broadband connectivity is frequently seen as a key ingredient for a successful, innovative economy. The reach of the Ethernet network, the speed and number of users plugged into the network are seen as key economic indicators.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produced results in 2006 that should the percentage reach of broadband in [...]
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Tags: Ethernet, gigabit ethernet, SDH
The Invention of Ethernet – Robert Metcalfe, David Reeves Boggs and PARC.
Without the Ethernet modern commerce couldn’t function. Our modern economy is heavily reliant on the fast, smooth transfer of data. I find it odd that the inventors of the networking system that allows this to occur are only known to computer geeks. Robert [...]
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Tags: Ethernet, interoute, LAN, SDH