Indeed, Cisco bought another Ethernet start-up, Granite Systems, to gain access to the firm's gigabit-a-second technology.
But Google is laying the foundation for new, gigabit-based applications that haven't yet been invented.
The Barona Casino outside San Diego now has a 1-gigabit-per-second network and 100 of its 2, 000 slots attached.
In driving the building of this infrastructure, the City will first focus on establishing an open, gigabit-speed networks in key innovation areas.
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And cities around the country are vying to become Google's test bed for blazing fast one gigabit-per-second broadband trials it announced last month.
Google 's ( GOOG - news - people ) test bed for blazing fast one gigabit-per-second broadband trials it announced last month.
By integrating a solution that combines whole home, gigabit-class Wi-Fi with in-room, multi-gigabit connectivity into their devices, equipment manufacturers will benefit from the ultra-high speed this newest solution offers.
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The upcoming 802.11ac wireless standard is the world's fastest Wi-Fi, providing gigabit Wi-Fi speeds allowing for web content to download faster, high quality media content to synch more quickly and transfer to multiple sources at once with ease.
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Launched in April, the 1, 000-node network is anchored by two redundant 3Com CoreBuilder 9000 switches interconnected by dual 1Gbps Gigabit Ethernet-trunked connections.
For additional redundancy, the two central switches each have two Gigabit Ethernet-trunked connections to three more CoreBuilder 9000 switches.
The specification won't include collision detection, for instance, because 10-Gigabit won't be running half-duplex.
The company is already experimenting with its one-gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, offering lightening-fast broadband and TV services.
"Multi-gigabit wireless connectivity in the 60 GHz spectrum is no longer about technology demos and future-state conversations, " said Tal Tamir, chief executive officer of Wilocity.
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The project is the second city project announced by Gigabit Squared as part of its multi-million dollar Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program.
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Only one problem: Precious few engineers can bend 40-gigabit beams of light around corners.
Just one problem: Precious few engineers can bend 40-gigabit beams of light around corners.
Some parts of 10-Gigabit Ethernet will be different than previous versions of Ethernet.
The truth is that we still don't know all of the innovative ways in which 1-gigabit Internet service will be put to use.
WiGig is powered by the first 60 GHz multi-gigabit wireless chipsets developed by Wilocity and brought to the Dell Latitude 6430u by Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
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The formation comes just after the IEEE decided to promote the study group looking at 10-Gigabit to a task force, giving it the designation 802.3ae.
Myricom develops high performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet systems for high performance computing.
This seems to be further evidence that Google does not just view Kansas City as a sandbox to experiment on the rollout of its 1 gigabit, fiber-to-the-home product, but a potential new area of business.
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Prices of the widely used 32-gigabit NAND flash chip, typically used in smartphones and tablets to store data, jumped as much as 17.7% in late Asia trade Monday, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia's biggest spot market for chips.
The RackMac mini Xserver supports one half-length, x16 (x4 mode), PCIe 2.0 card to enable the use of professional video capture cards, 8Gb Fibre Channel cards, 10-Gigabit Ethernet cards, and RAID controller cards with a racked Mac mini all in 1U rack space.
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Building on the success of the QCA9005 tri-band wireless solution, the latest generation tri-band wireless networking card takes advantage of the new Qualcomm VIVE 802.11ac combined with the recently ratified 802.11ad standard that enables multi-gigabit networking, data syncing, and video and audio streaming, while maintaining its wireless bus extension docking capabilities.
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Your e-mail attachment will be a 30-minute movie of your nephew's Disneyland trip--a gigabit attachment.
For hardware, Google has its own dedicated Network Box with a four-port gigabit Ethernet router and 802.11n WiFi, a TV Box with live viewing and a WiFi access point as well as a Storage Box DVR with 2TB of data and the ability to record eight shows at once.
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Google said that it would be upgrading an already-existing fiber network in Provo that does not offer gigabit speeds, by purchasing iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city.
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Approaching gigabit Ethernet speeds, this 5th-generation WiFi-equipped notebook supports up to 900Mbps of wireless throughput -- though we certainly wouldn't expect to see such speeds smack in the middle of a tech trade show exhibition hall.
Moving on, we've got the Ion-based HTPC, which is outfitted with a 1.6GHz Atom 230 CPU, Vista Ultimate (64-bit), 4GB of DDR2-667 RAM, an OCZ 120GB SSD, Blu-ray drive, gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, HDMI output and a multicard reader.
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