Another possibility, much discussed within the Treasury, would be a government-sponsored effort to encourage the private sector to lay state-of-the art fibre-optic cable in one or more of Britain's major cities.

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Since the government first announced its plans for the national internet in 2005, it has clearly invested a lot in state of the art technology infrastructure - fibre optic cables, and new data centres to enable many more sites to be hosted inside the country rather than abroad.

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The new array can now also use 2.5-in solid-state drives (SSDs) along with traditional SAS, SATA and Fibre Channel drives.

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Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver more than 400, 000 random write transactions per second, scale up to more than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces.

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