Believe it or not, 10 Gigabit Ethernet is coming to copper wiring faster than you can say “bandwidth bonanza.” While the first spec likely to complete won’t run 10 Gig over Category-5 wiring, it will still be copper-based and will still result in products that cost half as much as the fiber-optic options available, experts say. Chip maker Broadcom has already taken the first steps toward making copper 10 Gigabit a reality. Broadcom readies pre-standard copper 10 Gig Ethernet http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0730tengig.html?net
Believe it or not, 10 Gigabit Ethernet is coming to copper wiring faster than you can say “bandwidth bonanza.” While the first spec likely to complete won’t run 10 Gig over Category-5 wiring, it will still be copper-based and will still result in products that cost half as much as the fiber-optic options available, experts say. Chip maker Broadcom has already taken the first steps toward making copper 10 Gigabit a reality.
Broadcom readies pre-standard copper 10 Gig Ethernet
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0730tengig.html?net
Kentucky state auditor says hackers infiltrated agency network
Maybe Americans are too quick to blame the French these days. But there’s no denying that someone broke into the computers of a U.S. state – and that state is fingering French hackers. Kentucky says one of its agency’s servers was compromised, and hackers saw fit to store their pirated music and movies on the servers for their own use.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0730kentucky.html?net
Microsoft fixing another faulty patch
Microsoft Tuesday acknowledged that a recent security patch is causing problems on machines running the Windows NT 4.0 operating system.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0730microfixin.html?net
IBM rolls out Opteron server, Linux database clusters
IBM Wednesday introduced its first server based on AMD’s 32-/64-bit Opteron chip, pushing the new eServer 325 as an integral part of its expanded Linux cluster offerings. It also announced a new Linux cluster that includes DB2 for Linux, which is its first database offering generally available for the Opteron processor.
