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Critics question Comcast broadband caps

Comcast's decision to put a 250-gigabyte cap on monthly bandwidth use for its residential customers may look like a generous number, but some critics suggested the cap may cause problems for users in the future.

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  • Green Ethernet draft imminent

    The IEEE group working on "Green" Ethernet is expected to produce a draft spec this month, PC Magazine's Good Clean Tech says, quoting a potential 75% power savings in 10GBase-T.

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  • Metro Ethernet testing standards in works

    As metropolitan-area Ethernet continues to roll out, there needs to be a better way to test it. Communications Technology takes a look at the test-standards efforts by the ITU, IEEE and the Metro Ethernet Forum.

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  • Cisco and Brocade?

    Light Reading has keyed in on Wall Street rumors that Cisco might be looking to buy Brocade, which in turn recently caused quite a stir in the networking world with its proposed acquisition of Foundry Networks.

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  • Cerf maps out Internet's future

    "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf published his latest thoughts on the future of the network in The Observer. Still pushing that interplanetary Internet, but he talks about other advancements in store as well.

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