Cisco's Nexus Forms Core of Data-Center Drive Jan 29, 2008
The Nexus line is built to go far beyond the scale of the Catalysts, delivering more than 15T bits per second. "The capacity to grow is huge," he said. (PC World)
Cisco's Optical Concept: The 1-Gig Cable Modem Jan 17, 2008
Cisco software architect Alon Bernstein, in a presentation at the SCTE's Emerging Technologies conference here Tuesday, showed a screen shot of a command-line interface for a cable modem delivering upstream throughput of 974,723,228 bits per second. Practically speaking, it's a 1-Gbps cable modem. (Multichannel News)
Super broadband hint Jan 16, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Peter Hartcher Political EditorJanuary 17, 2008. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
UMPCs panned for design flaws Jan 12, 2008
"Right now you typically get 116K [bits per second] when you are mobile, which isn't a great user experience." A true ultramobile experience is the ability to pull out a mobile device and easily surf the Web. "Right now, you can't get that experience," Sezen said. (InfoWorld)
Wi-Fi Startup to Pick Up Where Google Left Off in SF Jan 5, 2008
Although devices are shared, Meraki aims to deliver data rates of around 1M bps (bits per second) to each user. Meraki will pay the cost of rolling out the service, and no public funds are involved, it said. (PC World)
Toshiba to make flash-based notebook drives Dec 11, 2007
The maximum write speed will be 40MB per second using a SATA II interface with a transfer rate of 3Gbps (bits per second). The drives' life expectancy is around 1 million hours, Toshiba said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Remembering the Thrill of V.34 Dec 11, 2007
Verizon has introduced a that offers up to 20 megabits per second -- that is, 20 Mbps both up and down ... Suddenly I feel like a silver-maned granddad, wondering what in the heck anybody would do with 100 or even 50 megabits per second ... e., less than 2,400 bits per second) Hayes modem, so V.34 was nothing short of miraculous. (Multichannel News)
High-speed internet is key to high-level research Dec 6, 2007
In technical terms, the fiber-optic system will have five divisions of light that each move 10,000 million bits per second, a capacity a couple hundred times greater than a standard Internet connection. Five or ten years ago, this wouldn't have been as important. (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
Governor seeking to build high-speed data network Dec 4, 2007
Officials said the fiber-optic system will have five divisions of light that each move 10,000 million bits per second, a capacity a couple hundred times greater than a standard Internet connection. The governor said parts of the data network plan are included in the proposed state budget he will unveil Tuesday to the South Dakota. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
LG Launches iphone Wannabe Nov 6, 2007
6M bps (bits per second). Features include a full Internet browser, Wi-Fi, natural handwriting recognition, 128M bytes of internal memory, a Micro SD card slot and 2. (PC World)
Australia offline Oct 22, 2007
5Mbps connection that only exceeds 700Mbps [both measures are bits per second as I do know the difference between bits and bytes for apologists thinking this difference might justify the poor service] late at night due to throttling by Telstra due to system overloading. I waste a lot of time waiting for data downloads and uploads to be completed. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Samsung reveals latest music phones Oct 11, 2007
6M bps (bits per second). The phone will first appear in Italy at the end of October and follow in other European countries. (MacCentral)
Fon's shared UK Wi-Fi network goes mainstream with BT Oct 5, 2007
The piece of a customer's broadband connection that will become available to other Fon members is relatively small, at 512K bps (bits per second) out of a BT broadband connection that can be as fast as 8M bps, but outpaces the minimum 300K bps free service Google wanted to offer on EarthLink's San Francisco network. People should be able to use those connections for Internet access, gaming, VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and other applications on any Wi-Fi device, according to Fon. (Computerworld Australia)
Remote Vt. towns getting high-speed Internet onramp Oct 3, 2007
- With dial-up Internet connections as slow as 12 bits per second, students in Vermont's northeast corner generally don't try to take on-line courses. That could change, now that this hamlet by the Canadian border has a new onramp to the information superhighway. (Boston Globe)
Patent threat to 802.11n may be overblown Sep 28, 2007
11n, designed to boost wireless LAN speeds to more than 100M bps (bits per second) with longer range, has been eagerly awaited for years as it traverses a winding path to approval. The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying equipment using the second draft of the standard in progress, a stopgap measure that should help consumers and small businesses choose products but may not satisfy enterprises that need to roll out and maintain large deployments. (MacCentral)
Clearwire trials portable wireless service in Seattle Sep 18, 2007
5M bps (bits per second) download speed. The Clearwire trial service competes with mobile cellular offerings. (MacCentral)
Vodafone's new handset lineup to include iPhone rival Sep 11, 2007
2M bps (bits per second). Schulte-Bokum declined to comment on whether Vodafone has plans to offer the iPhone, which Apple expects to launch in Europe in the coming weeks, although he did comment on its lack of 3G capability. (MacCentral)
LG unveils iPhone-like 3G handset Aug 30, 2007
WCDMA supports speeds of around 384k bps (bits per second) in its basic version and the LG phone will also work on networks that have been upgraded with HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) data networking at speeds up to 3. 6M bps. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
New phones deliver speedier HSDPA downloads Aug 25, 2007
2M bps (bits per second) variants of HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) networks. On this topic. (ITworld -- News)
Toshiba to offer 320GB laptop drive from Q4 Aug 22, 2007
They will connect via a 3G bps (bits per second) serial ATA (SATA) interface. The amount of data that can be stored on a hard-disk drive is constantly expanding as drive makers fine tune technology, and the needs of laptop users are growing in tandem with the expansion in drive space. (MacCentral)
MTV, RealNetworks said to merge digital music stores Aug 22, 2007
88 per track, but encoded at 128Kbps (bits per second). MP3s will be better quality, at 256Kbps. (MacCentral)
UK ISPs under fire for false advertising Aug 3, 2007
That's bits per second ... 10meg will be in reference to 10Mb/s (10 Mega-bits per second) which equates to around about 1. (bit-tech.net)
Intel sets record breakthrough with 40Gbps modulators Jul 27, 2007
Ansheng Liu said in an Intel blog post that the new breakthrough in Silicon Photonics research at the Photonics Technology Lab of Intel is, a laser modulator that encodes optical data at 40 billion bits per second ... The modulator is made of silicon, and encodes data onto a beam of light at the rate of 40Gbps (gigabits per second). (Monsters and Critics.com)
Virgin Broadband: it will slaughter Telstra's profit Jul 27, 2007
512k BITS per second equates to around 64K BYTES per second. So to give you some idea. (Australian Personal Computer)
WiMax partners to match 700MHz Jul 23, 2007
The network will deliver between 2M bps (bits per second) and 4M bps downstream and about half that speed upstream, they said. Sprint and Clearwire plan to use WiMax so that subscribers can choose among a wide range of devices built to the open standard on which the technology is based. (InfoWorld)
NTT DoCoMo Targets 300M bps in Super 3G Experiment Jul 16, 2007
The indoor experiment will test data transmission speed and NTT DoCoMo hopes to hit a downlink speed of 300M bps (bits per second), it said Friday. First trails will involve the use of a single antenna on both the transmitter and receiver and then the use of up to four multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas. (PC World)
EMC data-storage product upgrades make better use of energy Jul 16, 2007
The top-of-the-line Symmetrix DMX series will get a speed boost that will enable it to move data at a maximum of 4 billion bits per second, twice as fast as today's version. At the same time, the new DMX-4 promises greater energy efficiency to lower the user's power and cooling bills. (Boston Globe)
Suspense mounts for San Francisco Wi-Fi plan Jul 13, 2007
For example, Google s proposed free service has come under particular fire for allegedly threatening users privacy and being too slow, at 300K bps (bits per second). In one local twist, the San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union (SNAFU) has appealed an April decision of the city s Planning Commission that exempted the network from environmental review. (MacCentral)
Experts: Better Broadband Stats Needed Jun 29, 2007
The FCC also classifies 200K bps (bits per second) as broadband when most users would think of it as something, at least 12 times faster, that can deliver full-motion video to computer screens, said Mark Lloyd, senior fellow for the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. The congressional requirements that the FCC measure broadband adoption has been "horribly abused" by the agency, he said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Covad to cut work force by 8 percent Jun 29, 2007
Last month, the company upgraded its network in 11 markets to offer fat DSL pipes at 8M bps (bits per second) to 15M bps downstream and 1M bps upstream. The company will take a restructuring charge of about US$1. (ITworld -- News)
Wi-Fi Alliance Starts Testing Draft 802.11n Gear Jun 26, 2007
0 and the final standard are intended to run at more than 100M bps (bits per second), faster than many wired Ethernet connections. The products now being certified can deliver as much as five times the throughput and twice the range of earlier Wi-Fi gear, according to a Wi-Fi Alliance news release. (PC World)
Hands on: Korea's cutting-edge wireless broadband Jun 25, 2007
The clips are encoded at 300k bps (bits per second) and played without any problem, even while the train was in motion. Equally surprising was that my little experiment did not draw the attention of the passengers sitting next to me. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
New quantum key system combines speed, distance Jun 9, 2007
Their QKD system that incorporates this up-conversion technique, described in a recent paper,* generates and transmits secure keys at a rate of over half a million bits per second over 10 km of optical fiber, fast enough to encrypt streaming digital video using one-time pad in real time. The group also has transmitted secure keys at rates near 10 kilobits per second at five times that distance. (EurekAlert!)
Solid-State Drives Coming on Strong Jun 8, 2007
It will be available in the fourth quarter, and a second version with double the data read speed of 200M bps (bits per second) will be available in early 2008. Alongside it was a flash-based RAID (redundant array of independent, or inexpensive, disks) drive which has two Compact Flash card slots. (PC World)
New Switch Expands HP Blade Server Options Jun 2, 2007
It provides an aggregate switching capacity of up to 120G bits per second operating at full-duplex. The new switch is available now from HP starting at $4,999. (eWeek)
Groups Praise US Broadband Data Bill May 26, 2007
Secondary Navigation. Grant Gross, IDG News Service Fri May 25, 4:00 PM ET. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
FCC Approves iPhone May 19, 2007
Eager potential users who hoped for a faster data connection will be disappointed that the approval is only for EDGE. Many operators, including Apple partner AT&T, have upgraded their networks to deliver download speeds of about 500K bits per second or more, more than twice as fast as EDGE.. The FCC also released correspondence regarding Apple's requests that the agency keep some documents private. (PC World)
Primus Business Services First to Launch IP Telephony Solution on Dedicated T1 Line May 8, 2007
QUICK SEARCH BY ORGANIZATION. FREE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES. (Canada Newswire)
Time Warner Lets Broadband Users Share Apr 25, 2007
The average speed of its standard Road Runner service is between 5M bps (bits per second) and 7M bps, according to Time Warner. Related Searches: Comments Posting comment. (PC World)
Data limits'How much more data can the net carry?' asks Bill Thompson Apr 11, 2007
Unfortunately it is a real bandwidth hog that will suck up as many bits per second as it can get, and because it is a peer-to-peer service it sends as well as receives. Joost adoption rates are likely to be high, especially if they manage to sign up some interesting content, and when the BBC's iPlayer is finally made available it will add to the load. (BBC News -- Technology)
EMI to go DRM-free in iTunes Apr 3, 2007
The DRM-free music will be available at 256K bps (bits per second) AAC, compared to today's quality of 128K bps AAC, Jobs said. "Our research tells us that consumers would pay a higher price for a digital music file which they could use on any player," EMI's Nicoli said. (InfoWorld)
Little Fizzle for Stocks Mar 27, 2007
IBM () plans to announce the development of a new chip that transmits data at 160 billion bits per second, up to eight times faster than existing chips, according to an published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. The chip works by using light to transmit data, in addition to conventional electricity. (SmartMoney)
Quantum cryptography goes wireless Mar 9, 2007
By comparison, a high-speed Internet connection transmits millions of bits per second. Is anyone listening. (Nature News Service)
Avaya Enterprise VoIP Updated Mar 9, 2007
It has a T-3 interface -- 45M bps (bits per second) -- versus the 1. 5M bps links on Avaya's earlier gateways. (PC World)
Finally from Sony, a Video Walkman Mar 3, 2007
For audio its roughly 30 hours for ATRAC files encoded at 132k bps (bits per second) while for video its seven hours for MPEG4 files encoded at 768k bps. Video files at lower bit rates will take up less space in the memory but also make the Walkman work a little harder on the decoding, so the time drops to about six hours and 30 minutes for a 384k-bps file, according to Sony's figures. (PC World)
Samsung Adds Zing to GDDR4 Feb 26, 2007
This will enable ultra-smooth movements in animation, and make games incredibly realistic, resulting in a truly immersive user experience (Techtree.com)
Samsung Speeds up Graphics Memory Feb 24, 2007
The company, which is one of the world's biggest chip makers, said Friday it has managed to make GDDR4 (graphics double data rate 4) memory chips that work at 4G bps (bits per second). That's two-thirds faster than the current fastest GDDR4 chips generally available, which operate at 2. (PC World)
Iridium next-gen satellites a go Feb 17, 2007
4K bps (bits per second) but supports voice calls, e-mail and exchange of some data such as a ship's position, Desch said. The next generation may have speeds up to 10M bps and provide a broadband data experience, he said. (InfoWorld)
Omnifone Reveals Mobile Music Download Dervice Feb 13, 2007
On 3G networks, they are encoded at 48K bps (bits per second), and on GPRS networks at 32K bps to shorten download times. On phones with limited memory capacity, MusicStation monitors which tracks are played most often, and deletes little-used tracks to free up space. (PC World)
Samsung Unveils "iPhone Killer" with 3G Support: F700 Feb 9, 2007
2Mbps (bits per second). The phone features a 2. (Playfuls.com)
Samsung and LG Ready to Battle the iPhone Feb 9, 2007
2M bps (bits per second). It also scores points over the other two handsets by having a higher quality camera--5 megapixel versus 2 megapixel on the iPhone and K850 phones--and support for a wider variety of multimedia file formats. (PC World)
Samsung next with touchpanel cell phone Feb 8, 2007
2Mbps (bits per second). It also scores points over the other two handsets by having a higher quality camera 5 megapixel versus 2 megapixel on the iPhone and K850 phones and support for a wider variety of multimedia file formats. (MacCentral)
Analysis: iPhone and the emergence of convergence Feb 7, 2007
Our broadband data run at a magnificent trillion bits per second, and our telephony sorry, telepathy, it s so easy to slip into the old terminology works wherever we are with every other human being. Not like there s a choice. (MacCentral)
Intel improves wireless card for Centrino platform Jan 24, 2007
Together, that design enables the card to support MPG-2 video signals by sustaining a 19M bps (bits per second) data stream at a range of 68 meters, Hofer said. The new card will hit markets quickly. (ARNnet)
Nokia joins Sprint's WiMax push Jan 6, 2007
16e, and expects its network to deliver 2M bps (bits per second) to 4M bps downstream around a metropolitan area. Though the new system will be far faster than 3G, according to Sprint, it will be aimed mostly at mobile data applications while 3G will remain the primary cellular voice network. (InfoWorld)
