IEEE has formed a group to develop the next generation of Ethernet technology, which could potentially support network transfer speeds of up to 1 terabit per second. More...

Homeplugs and Powerline adapters from companies such as Devolo are increasing their transfer speeds year or on year. This time we have the Devolo dLAN 500 AVMini kit. Does it bring anything new? More...

Launched in 1970, Xerox's PARC has played an instrumental role in the engineering of laser printing and many of the technologies that compose the PC you're reading this on: ethernet, the mouse, GUI... More...

Powerline networking has started to become more popular over the past couple of years or so, mostly due to the work both Devolo and Netgear have done with their range of products. Devolo was one... More...

Apple announced today during their keynote the all new Apple TV. Although it was released back in September 2006, the new Apple TV will have many improvements over it's previous version. The new, smaller, Apple... More...

According to the HDBaseT press release, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Valens Semiconductor are working to kill HDMI. They are trying to replace it with a new standard which will transport the... More...

The New Zealand government has decided to invest NZ$1.5 billion to start a government owned corporation to get fiber internet to its residents. Their goal is to get the fiber to 75% of the homes... More...

A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds. The Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG),... More...

Cirrus Logic is developing Gigabit Ethernet audio chips, with the aim of sending hundreds of uncompressed audio streams over the wire at the same time. The chips will supercharge the company's existing CobraNet audio networking... More...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) has voted to standardise development of the next generation of Ethernet at 100Gbps. Although the 100Gb standard has been mooted for... More...

Cisco Systems has made several improvements to its Ethernet switches to protect businesses from security threats as well as help them run Internet Protocol telephony more reliably. On Tuesday, the company announced... More...

Power-over-Ethernet chip to reduce network switch PoE components by nearly 90 per cent Power over Ethernet (PoE) company PowerDsine will start commerical shipments in January of a chip that it claims will... More...

Robert M. "Bob" Metcalfe invented the local-area networking standard he called Ethernet on May 22, 1973, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Ethernet originally meant a shared media LAN. It is greatly changed today,... More...

Riverstone Networks Inc. Monday nudged the per port price of 10 Gigabit Ethernet below the $10,000 level in a bid to accelerate adoption of the high-speed networking technology. "People want pricing in... More...

Cisco used this week's Broadband DSL Forum in Berlin to promote fibre-based Ethernet access as an alternative, far faster broadband technology for homes and businesses. It lined up telcos and ISPs from... More...