Monthly Archives: April 2011

  1. What is an Infiniband Cable?

    Photobucket InfiniBand is a type of communications link for data flow between processors and I/O devices that offers throughput of up to 2.5 gigabytes per second and support for up to 64,000 addressable devices. Because it is also scalable and supports quality of service (QoS) and failover, InfiniBand is often used as a server connect in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The internal data flow system in most PCs and server systems is inflexible and relatively slow. As the amount of data coming into and flowing between components in the computer increases, the existing bus system becomes a bottleneck. Instead of sending data in parallel (typically 32 bits at a time, but in some computers 64 bits) across the backplane

    Infiniband Frequent Questions - Q & A


      Q: Is InfiniBand designed strictly as an I/O fabric? A: No, InfiniBand offers much more. At the lowest layer, InfiniBand provides a high performance, low latency, reliable switch
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  2. DVI Cables to Connect Your PC to your HDTV!

    DVI Cables

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    What is a DVI Cable?

    The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video interface standard covering the transmission of video between a source device (such as a personal computer) as well as a display device. The DVI standard has achieved widespread acceptance in the PC industry, both in desktop PCs & monitors. Most contemporary retail desktop PCs & LCD monitors feature a DVI interface, & lots of other devices (such as projectors & consumer televisions) support DVI indirectly through HDMI, another video interface standard. Most laptops still have legacy VGA &, in some models, HDMI ports, but not displayport or
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  3. 1080p High definition HDMI cables for the NBA playoffs

    High definition cables for the NBA playoffs

    Don’t miss a play watch  Kobe Bryant with the Lakers and other NBA Play off Teams such as Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls in High Definition It is a digital alternative to consumer analog standards, such as radio frequency(RF) coaxial cablecomposite videoS-Videocomponent video, or VGA. HDMI connects digital audio/video sources (such as set-up boxes, up convert DVD players, HD DVD players
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  4. Cisco StackWise Plus cables

    Cisco StackWise Plus cables

    CAB-STK-E-3M FlexStack Plus cables CAB-STK-E The Cab-stk-e-3m & Cab-stk-e-1m Stackwise Plus cable are used in connecting Cisco switch modules; 3100G, 3110X, CBS3120X as well as the 3012 using the Cisco X2 transceiver modules and the Cisco TwinGig Converter Module. These cables are also used for connecting the IBM BladeCenter & IBM BC-H blades. The StackWise Plus cable is capable of data speeds up to 10 Gigabit/ second. That is plenty of headroom
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  5. Connectzone is at bat for kids and our local community

    Connectzone is at bat for kids and our local community-you should be too!

    Lady Mavericks Softball I believe we are not defined by what we have but rather by what we give away. Whoever eulogizes us in the end will remember kind words we gave away and generosity freely and joyfully given from our hearts. People  will recall what we contributed not what we gained. I want to tell you a story and it follows a rather improbable and winding road but if you can be patient it is a beautiful and poignant story. 29402 117084038322723 100000633821575 144686 5284593 n resized 600 It all started poolside at Campbell’s resort in Chelan Washington. I was soaking in the sun with my girlfriend when she got an obviously disturbing message on her cell phone. The message was from a longtime friend of hers telling her that her daughter was very ill at Children’s Hospital. Not many details, just enough information to make your stomach start turning. A parent’s worst fear, the horrific reminder of how fragile our children are. I hadn’t met this girl yet-but I would in the coming weeks and I am proud to have stood witness to how she affected and continues to affect our community today. The full ramifications of her illness were understood later; my friends, friend’s daughter had acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Shock and profound sadness overcame our community and when I say community, I mean several communities actually, they include: Meadowdale High School teachers, students and coaches, friends and families, churches, the softball community, local sports heroes all the way to grocery checkers at the local QFC. You see, this little girl had a lion’s heart and touched more lives in 18 short years than most of us will ever dream of and her name is Ashley Aven. Her doctors told her she had between 6-8 weeks to live but she refused to believe that and instead of giving up she made a to do list. Her list included things like graduating from high school, attending senior prom and seeing the movie The Blind Side, all of which she did. Seemingly impossible feats given your doctors told you that you have a few weeks to live in January. She was a beautiful high school softball player who wanted to be a pediatric nurse. She endured three difficult rounds of chemotherapy but her cancer cell count was never low enough for a bone marrow transplant. At one point during a hospital appointment, her grief stricken father Bill sat with his head in his hands and a stranger came by and put a hand on his shoulder and said to him “Big Deep Breaths”. “Big Deep Breath” or BDB as we call it, has become a mantra for many in our community and you will see cars with yellow softball shaped window stickers with Ashley’s jersey number on it, in case you are ever in the area-her number is 2 and be on the lookout for “BDB #2”. On an early August morning 2010 Ashley Aven left us and I guess depending on how you look at it-I believe she won her battle with cancer by acting with style and grace in what I imagine to be the most frightening time in her life. Her father’s words when she passed “she doesn’t have cancer anymore”. I remember that morning very clearly, I went to the grocery store and the majority of employees were tearful while continuing about their jobs. I thought to myself “Wow-that is saying something about her life when even the grocery store staff is mourning her loss”. Meadowdale Lady Mavs Fastpitch Ashley’s story exemplified the idea that courage is not lack of fear-but going forward in spite of it. She proved we are not defined by our circumstances and can only be limited by our own attitudes and she demonstrated these lessons very publicly. I found this kind of wisdom in an 18 year old surprising given it is rare among many adults. Ashley’s father has developed a nonprofit organization called “Big Deep Breath” to help other families struggling with childhood cancer. He is giving back to his community in spite of an overwhelming loss. Meadowdale High School created an annual whiffle ball tournament in Ashley’s name to help raise money for local children with cancer and last year raised $7,000. This year a new ladies softball scoreboard at Meadowdale High will be dedicated in Ashley Aven’s name during the whiffle ball tourney. Connectzone donated that scoreboard and it was a pretty easy decision to make. One of my staff-who also happens to coach softball at Meadowdale High, brought this need to our attention. Funding for schools has been so severely cut that our teachers often have to pay for their own copies-much less is there money for new scoreboards. Connectzone is grateful to have had the opportunity to contribute not just to the community but the athletic department and mostly to the girls that make up the Lady Maverick’s Softball team. Everyone wins, the players get the scoreboard, Ashley Aven’s sense of spirit will be back out on the softball field and we at Connectzone get to feel a warm sense of contribution to our local kids. I encourage all of you to consider what you can contribute to your community. Be sure and think outside the box, contributions don’t have to be financial maybe check on an elderly neighbor, volunteer at the pet shelter or help with the school carnival. Financial contributions can be small, buy a teacher a ream of paper or offer to take your child’s baseball team for ice cream; I promise it will make you feel good. When we build strong schools-we get strong kids. If we have strong kids we get strong communities. When we build strong communities-we end up with strong cities. If we
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  6. Infiniband 10G gigabit Base-CX4 cables Form Factor Xenpak SFF-8470

    InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data centers. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable. The InfiniBand architecture specification defines a connection between processor nodes and high performance I/O nodes such as storage devices. InfiniBand forms a superset of the Virtual Interface Architecture. Like Fibre Channel, PCI Express, Serial ATA, and many other modern interconnects, InfiniBand offers point-to-point bidirectional serial links intended for the connection of processors with high-speed peripherals such as disks. On top of the point to point capabilities, InfiniBand also offers multicast operations as well. It supports several signalling rates and, as with PCI Express, links can be bonded together for additional
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  7. Where do geeks buy cables?

    Where do they buy Cisco compatible Cables?

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    Where else ConnectZone.com as everyone knows is the best source for cables for Custom cables as well as many other Cables and Fiber Optics

    Several times this year a sales engineer has called Connectzone.com looking for a cable that no one else had in stock ; and as always Connectzone shipped the cables the same day saving some geeks project again. This time the cable was a CAB-L520P-C19-US cable but the time before they couldn’t locate a CAB-HD8-ASYNC
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  8. 19" Data Rack

    19" Data Rack

    19 Data Rack 23UM6 Cage Nuts for Data Rack  

    What is a 19" Data Rack for?

    A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is 19 inches (482.6 mm) wide, including edges or ears that protrude on each side which permit the module to be fastened to the rack frame with screws. 19-inch racks are often used to house professional audio and video equipment, including amplifiers, effects units, interfaces, headphone amplifiers, and even tiny scale audio mixers. They are also widely used for computer
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  9. Cat5e Category 5e 350 MHz Molded Ethernet Cables patch Cord

    Cat5e Molded Patch Cords

      Black Cat5e Ethernet cable network patch cord Black Cat5e Molded Patch Cords   Blue Cat5e Ethernet cable network patch cord Blue Cat5e Molded
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  10. Custom Cabling for Easter, Ethernet Cables, Coaxial and More!

    Custom Cables for Easter, Blackberry Playbook, Networking, Harnesses, coaxial cable, Custom cables For Easter Great Deals On Custom Cabling   Cisco cables Custom Cables have always been a strong suite of us here at ConnectZone and customers from the Great Pacific Northwest in the Seattle-Bellevue area & all across the country rely on us for Cables for their Data Centers & to keep their communications & Networks Connected. If you are in the design stages of your cabling solution, we can provide engineering assistance and prototyping. If
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