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The article reports that Virgin Entertainment Group is upgrading its Multi Protocol Label Switching Wide Area Network (WAN) link at its headquarters in Los Angeles, California, in 2006. The move is aimed at ensuring it had sufficient bandwidth for voice-over Internet protocol calls and the downloading of music and video files by customers of its online service at its digital listening stations. The company is also working to reconfigure the quality of service settings on its routers in conjunction with its WAN upgrade.

An international team has set an Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) by transferring data across nearly 11,000 kilometers from Los Angeles, California to Geneva, Switzerland, at an average rate of 6.25 gigabits per second, nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. I2-LSR is an open and continuing competition for the highest-bandwidth, end-to-end networks. The record was set by a team consisting of members from CERN, the European center for particle physics, and the California Institute of Technology. According to Olivier Martin, head of external networking at CERN, said that the record is of great importance to the future of data-intensive Grids, such as the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid that CERN, together with its LHC partners around the world, are actively deploying.

This article provides information on the SATALink SiI 3132 PCI-Express incorporated to Serial ATA (SATA) II Host controller from Silicon Image Inc., a company that designs, develops and markets multi-gigabit semiconductor and system solutions for a variety of communications applications demanding high-bandwidth capability headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The Sil 3132 offers full advanced SATA functionality normally limited to server-class systems, including 3 Gb/s SATA data transfer rates. Native Command Queuing, support for port multipliers with Frame Information Structure-based switching and support for ATAPI commands, making it compatible with optical drives such as CD-ROM and DVD+/-RWS. All of this advanced functionality is packed into a small 10x10 mm package. Furthermore, the Sil 3132 offers advanced Redundant Array of Independent Disks capability through Silicon Image's SATARaid software management utility, which comes bundled with the chip. The SiI 3132 also provides added benefits as a port multiplier-aware host when connected to Silicon Image's SteelVine architecture. According to DigiTimes, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and ECS together are forecasted to ship more than 102 million motherboards in 2005.

The article introduces the Revolution three-port and five-port Serial ATA storage processing card produced by San Jose, California-based NetCell Corp. This product is said to deliver up to three times the bandwidth of Universal Serial Bus- and FireWire-based networked storage gear. The user does not need drivers when installing to Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Linux operating systems.