Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Philippine Center for Postharvest
Development and Mechanization
CLSU Compound, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija

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BPRE Information Technology in full throttle at 1,000Mbps
by MIS Team (April 1, 2004)









The information technology
of the Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE) has recently boosted its networking technology with the arrival of new devices in its arsenal: Gigabit Ethernet Switch, Gigabit Local Area Network (LAN) cards, and Gigabit Media Converter.

The Gigabit Ethernet Switch filters and forwards packets of data between network segments, servers and computers. Linked to BPRE's high-capacity servers where Gigabit LAN cards are installed, the Gigabit Ethernet Switch serves as a backbone switch that provides a whooping 1 gigabit per second (1Gbps or 1,000Mbps) data transfer rate between servers and workstations for improved access of information systems and databases. It is ten times the speed of the previously replaced switch creeping only at sluggish 100 megabits per second (100Mbps).

A 24-port gigabit switch capable of half to full duplex and 1,000 Mbps full duplex mode flow control and auto-negotiation complements the existing 10/100 Mbps switch hubs as it automatically sets the best possible bandwidth when connection is established with another network device for better information exchange.

The Gigabit Media Converter replaced the old media converters that convert data/information on a fiber optic to a UTP line. The two media converters are located in two strategic connection points between Admin Building and R&D Building to ensure smooth data flow.