Accton establishes UK-based product development team.Accton Technology Corp. of Taiwan (Hsinchu, Taiwan, www.accton.com) has established a new product development center in St. Albans, Hertford-shire, UK. Beginning with a staff of 18 professionals that will grow to 25 by year's end, Accton intends to invest $15 million over the next three years to reinforce this research and development center. The UK-based R&D group's first goal is to develop a product suite in the mid-range Layer 3 Ethernet Ethernet Telecommunications networking protocol introduced by Xerox Corp. in 1979. It was developed as an inexpensive way of sending information quickly between office machines connected together in a single room or building, but it rapidly became a standard computer chassis Pronounced "chah-see," it is a physical structure that holds everything or that everything is attached to. A computer's cabinet is often called the chassis. switch market targeted to the medium enterprise data center and enterprise edge distribution market. The product set will deliver low-cost, high-density copper Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. ports to client systems and feature 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks to the network core. The group, led by Mark Wingrove and Kevin O'Brien Notable people named Kevin O'Brien include:
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