The company dominates the market for Ethernet cables and other wiring needed to hook computer networks together.
The net-powered PC has come out of a project to create specifications for powering almost any kind of computer hardware through Ethernet cables.
The workers are housed in long prefabricated buildings or, for the luckier ones, traditional gers, circular felt tents (equipped with untraditional en suite facilities, TV and Ethernet cables).
The advantage will become even more apparent when more televisions, home appliances and other electronics come to market with the ability to match Ethernet cables with Wi-Fi that is equally reliable.
While the idea of stringing Ethernet cables from our gas line sounds like something we wouldn't want to attempt on our own, the concept doesn't sound all that far-fetched after all.
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We initially installed the router using an Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) PowerMac G4 running Mac OS X, but we also connected a Windows-based notebook and another Mac, this one a Powerbook also running OS X, to the router via Ethernet cables.
We feature computer cords, printer cords, dead-format USB cables, mini-USB cables, Ethernet, DVI, VGA, Firewire this, Firewire that.
It used to use unsecured Wi-Fi in those rooms but replaced that with Ethernet ports connected via cables to an Aruba box that manages who has access to the network.
Without the old layer of short-distance cables, this new Ethernet system will connect servers and storage drives directly to long-distance networks, making them accessible to each other from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
The Nexus 7000 is designed to combine those three types of cables in a new, smarter form of Ethernet cable.
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) works because when data is sent down network cables it is represented by voltages.
Ordinary laptops could also soon be getting their power from network cables as work is starting on specifications for Power Over Ethernet Plus which will be able to deliver 30-35 watts.
Power-Over-Ethernet could end up being a universal power supply for much computer hardware as the cables and connectors for it are the same all over the world.
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