These boxes took in low-speed, asynchronous data from the field and packed it into high-speed (9600 bits per second, it seems quaint now) synchronous trunks.

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The server also includes Microsoft Message Queuing to support asynchronous delivery of data to devices without a persistent connection.

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This would manage traffic at much higher speeds than the Titan and would be optimized for data communication formats like asynchronous transfer mode.

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"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.

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Floyd founded Efficient in 1993 with the idea of using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), an industrial-strength packet technology, to route data around local area networks.

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