Tuesday, March 16, 2004

10-Gigabit Ethernet comes alive. Price cuts are helping the two-year-old technology pick up steam in business networks. [CNET News.com] Cisco has dropped the price of its 10GigE line card to $32,000.00 for a four port card (~8,000 per port). This is going to heat up the race for 10GigE for Universities (especially the dum-dums who bought heavily into 2Gig Sonet). There were so many proprietary interfaces an protocols for the post GigE revolution, no one could tell who would win. And it's been shown Ethernet wins every time. 7:34:08 AM    comment []

Robots Come Up Short in the Grand Challenge [Scientific American] Well they went out to the desert and three teams met the "Challenge". I'm not surprised it turned out a miserable failure. But the obstacle course and the real course force everyone to prove whatever AI algorithms they have programmed and also their realtime response to changing road conditions. One team's vehicle saw a fork in a road, and split the difference between the two. That's not AI, that's an algorithm. 7:31:17 AM    comment []