Ditch Fiber For Ethernet At 400Gb/s ?
If there was an ethernet standard which could provide speeds matching fiber or fiber that was capable of maintaining speeds over distances of at least 80 kilometres (50 miles), would you be…
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Tag: Networking
800Gbps! So Fast The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium’s Name Is Obsolete
The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium haven't been resting on their laurels after rolling out 25, 50 and 100Gbps Ethernet, today the announced an 800Gpbs specification. With this announcement their old name sounds…
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CES 2020: New Killer Wi-Fi Feature Automatically Switches to Best Access Point
Rivet Networks, maker of the Killer line of networking products, announced during CES this week that its Killer Intelligence Engine is being updated with new “AI capabilities” in an effort...
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Rivet Networks Announces Killer E2600 Network Controller
Rivet Networks has announced their latest Ethernet controller with the E2600, the successor to the E2500 introduced back in 2016. The E2600 is now available in products from Acer, Dell /...
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Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day 2019 Overview: 56-Core CPUs, 100GbE, and Optane DIMMs, Oh My
Intel today made a number of product and strategy announcements that are all coordinated to continue the company’s ongoing…
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Synology DS1019+ Review: Powerful, Capable, Restrained
Synology this week is launching the DS1019+, a 5-bay counterpart to last year's 4-bay DS918+. Like most of the company's "Plus" series devices, it is...
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Rivet Networks Launches the Killer E3000 2.5Gbps Gaming Ethernet Controller
Rivet Networks, maker of the Killer line of gaming-focused networking products, has announced the Killer E3000, a 2.5Gbps Ethernet controller that Rivet is calling the “world’s first” such product...
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Rivet Networks Introduces Killer Wireless xTend Technology
Killer Wireless has introduced Killer xTend Technology, which is a unique solution that promises to help improve home network coverage without having to add network hardware. How is this accomplished? In a nutshell,…
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Intel Pushes Xeon to the Edge With Refreshed Skylake-Based Xeon D SoCs
Intel announced a major refresh of its Xeon D System on a Chip processors aimed at high density servers that bring the power of the datacenter as close to end user devices and sensors as…
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Wi-Fi Alliance Bringing Improved WPA3 Security To Wi-Fi Devices This Year
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced an update to its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security suite in the form of WPA3. The first major update in more than a decade, WPA3...
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CES 2018: Rivet Networks Partners with Intel for Killer Wireless-AC 1550
For their new wireless adapter Rivet Networks has partnered with Intel, producing "the worlds fastest 2x2 11ac wireless networking adapter" in the Killer Wireless-AC 1550. This new adapter supports the 802.11ac Wave 2…
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Become your own ISP for fun, or because Ajit Pai gets his way
If you are reading this from the US you probably have an opinion about the news out of the FCC today and should probably express that opinion to your various congress critters,…
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AmpliFi Announces Teleport, a Zero-Config VPN For Travelers
Earlier this year we took a look at the AmpliFi HD Home Wi-Fi System as part of our review of mesh wireless network devices. AmpliFi is the consumer-targeted brand...
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Office Network Upgrade Part 1: Infrastructure
For longtime readers, it should come as no surprise the robustness of our internal network at the PC Perspective offices isn't necessarily our primary focus. We spend a lot...
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ICANN not update the root KSK system on schedule
ICANN have had to delay their planned upgrade to the root key signing keys used by DNS thanks to between 5-8% of key validators lacking the new KSK key. If a validator…
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Linksys Announces WRT32X Gaming Router with Killer Prioritization Engine
Linksys has announced a router that they say is 'built purely for gaming' with the WRT32X, an AC3200 router with a 1.8 GHz dual-core processor and built-in Killer Prioritization Engine. "The WRT32X...
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Samba Developers Release Patch For Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2017-7494)
Last week, the development team behind Samba – popular software suite used on Linux and Unix clients and servers that uses TCP/IP protocol for file and print sharing to SMB/CIFS clients (including…
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Mesh Wi-Fi Performance Benchmarks: eero vs. Google Wifi vs. Amplifi HD
Back in February we took a quick initial look at the eero Home Wi-Fi System, one of several new entrants in the burgeoning Mesh Networking industry. Like its competitors,...
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