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Topic: Ethernet

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite website(s):

Slashdot

Most admires:

Steve Jobs

Favorite possession(s):

Linux box, Windows computer, Apple Computer

Favorite book(s):

"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams

Currently has on their coffee table:

Mac Today, PC World

Interest(s):

Computers

Dream job(s):

Bus Driver

Favorite computer game(s):

Hacking, Counter Strike, Age of Empires

Listens to:

AC/DC

Favorite online activity(s):

Chatting on ICQ, Finding ringtones for their phone, Finding warez

Favorite quote(s):

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

Although setting up Gigabit Ethernet switches might seem cut and dried, you could run into some hurdles.

Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

This Gigabit Ethernet flexibility makes the Catalyst 3550 switch an ideal LAN edge complement to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Family of Gigabit Ethernet optimized core LAN switches.
The Company will develop fabless semiconductor chips to enable the extension of 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology to optical metropolitan area networks and facilitate the transition of 10 Gigabit Ethernet to the existing SONET infrastructure.
Its Gigabit Ethernet Access Module combines the cost effectiveness of Gigabit Ethernet with the guaranteed service quality and dynamic allocation of bandwidth that are characteristic of Net Insight�s media network platform.

Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

All three get gigabit ethernet and the ATI Mobility Radeon 4x AGP graphics chip with 16 MB DDR!
Ultra high quality mode conditioning patch cables for Gigabit Ethernet applications is required where Gigabit 1000 Base-LX routers and switches are installed into existing multimode cable plants.
U ltra high quality mode conditioning patch cables for Gigabit Ethernet applications is required where Gigabit 1000 Base-LX routers and switches are installed into existing multimode cable plants.

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