Tag: FIBER

The Internet runs on cables. I mean, yes, you've got all those massive servers, but without the cables, they're not worth much. That's a fact which is pretty easy to forget. At the end of the day, all of our futuristic Web 2.0 stuff is just running on a bunch of physical cables, stretching from continent to continent, somewhere deep down at the bottom of the ocean. Greg's Cable Map provides more ...

Domestic, consumer-grade high-speed optical cables are finally here, folks! By the end of the year you will begin to see Intel's new Light Peak technology. So that you have some idea of just how fast 10 gigabits per second is, Intel's Light Peak overview leaps straight into layman's analogy: at 10Gb/s, you could transfer a Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds -- that's 1200 megabytes per ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/03/02/welcome-to-google-kansas-no-its-not-a-new-office-its-a-t/'; As the last few vestiges of sanity left the rocky outcrops of Mayor Bill Bunten's brain, he decreed: "Let our fair city (formerly known as Topeka) henceforth be known by the mad moniker GOOGLE, KANSAS!!" Just kidding; he didn't say that exactly (probably). But Topeka is ...

Google has just announced plans to deploy insanely fast broadband to between 50,000 and 500,000 households in the U.S. They say they're going to offer the service at "competitive prices". It doesn't mean they're going into the business as an ISP per se (even though 500,000 households is not exactly a tiny number), but they're mainly going to use it as a large-scale connectivity experiment. ...

If you want more Internet access speed, your options are getting more and more. Thanks to services like AT&T's UVERSE Elite offering, next-generation broadband over copper cables is beginning to show up as a legit service (as opposed to the do-it-yourself approach), giving its users effective speeds of up to 6 mbits/second downloading and 1 mbit uploading, or about double what most users can ...