If it expands to other parts of the U.S. it will find other broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable being pushed to do the same in January the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it wanted to see 1 Gbps ethernet speeds deployed in at least one community per state by 2015.

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While Fibre Channel storage networking technology offers up to 16 Gbps data rates low cost, high speed Ethernet connectivity is raising its head.

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