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Data centre networking
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In The Current Issue:
- How Discovery Inc spots great ideas
- CIO interview: Tarah Lourens, chief product and technology officer, Rightmove
- Did government allow Post Office to sack forensic accountants to cover up Horizon scandal?
Had an excellent catch-up with Apstra, a company I’ve followed since day one, fascinated by its concept of “intent-based networking”. After all, my IT raison d’etre is to prove that stuff “does ...
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Networks Generation
Homeworking - the new norm - is there any other option...
Broadband Testing 05 May 2020In the last blog, I touched on the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the obvious fallout here is the massive increase in home/remote working, something I’ve been practicing since 1989 – ...
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Networks Generation
What's In A Number? Er, Lots Of Packets Per Second...
Broadband Testing 29 May 2019I remember when first testing Gigabit Ethernet (Packet Engines and Foundry Networks for the record) and thinking: "how do we harness this much bandwidth - maybe take a TDM approach and slice it? ...
Belgium-based research institute IMEC has developed a platform that uses silicon photonics in high-speed optical links to support the growing bandwidth needs of cloud datacentres. According to ...