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eWeek – Cisco, Freescale Launch Consortium for Ethernet Networking

Cisco Systems, Freescale and other tech vendors are creating an industry consortium aimed at driving the development of 2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet technologies to help enterprises deal with the rapidly growing amount of wireless traffic running over their networks.

The founders of the NBASE-T Alliance—which also include semiconductor firms Aquantia and Xilinx—want to push the industry to develop more multi-Gigabit technologies than can run over the cabling that many enterprises adopted for their 1 GbE networks.

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