The NBASE-T Alliance – a recently formed umbrella group of networking industry players dedicated to keeping standard Ethernet cabling relevant – announced a dozen new members on Monday, including big names such as Intel, Qualcomm and Brocade.

The group was founded just seven weeks ago by a consortium of four companies: Cisco, Aquantia, Freescale and Xilinx. The idea is to promote the development of 2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet via regular cat 5e and cat 6 cable.

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