October 12, 2006

New LAN Blocker / Locks by elecom

Elecom presents some awesome devices for LANs.
LD-DATABLOCK01
This device allows you to switch off network traffic through a on/off switch
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LD-LOCK/HUB03
is a small thing you put in an unused port of your router/switch/hub and prevent 3rd party access to it
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LD-LOCK/CBL03
You can put this device on a Ethernet plug to prevent it to be plugged in.
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October 1, 2006

14 terabits transmission record

“Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, President and CEO is Norio Wada) has successfully demonstrated the ultra-large capacity optical transmission of 14 Tera bits per second (Tera is one trillion) over a single 160 km long optical fiber. The value of 14 Tbps (111 Gbps x 140 ch) greatly exceeds the current record of about 10 Tbps and so claims the record of the world’s largest transmission capacity.
This result was reported as a post deadline paper in the European conference on optical communication (ECOC) that was held in Cannes, France from September 24 to 28. (…)”

awesome, but such things happen in Japan

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September 29, 2006

Segas cute robot ã­ã“