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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Meta shuts down Connectivity unit
Social network to shift team and projects to Infrastructure and Central Products units
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Facebook-owner Meta sacks 11,000 - 13 percent of entire workforce
11,000 employees set to lose jobs
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Meta asks the ITU to stop adding "leap seconds" to alter time
The last leap second, at the end of 2016, caused a Cloudflare outage
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Meta to use time cards from Orolia to synchronize data centers
Using an alternative version of a Facebook design
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OCP: Meta updates Facebook's data center switches, moves to SAI open source API
And shows new hardware built by its OEM partners
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Facebook creates an open source PCI Express card that tells the time to the microsecond
Time Appliance can turn any server into a synchronization device
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Facebook drops out of Hong Kong-Americas submarine cable project due to US pressure
HKA the third US-HK cable FB has had to pull out of
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Infinera reaches record 30Tbps speeds on MAREA trans-Atlantic submarine cable
Networking company breaks own record on high-capacity cable used by Microsoft and Facebook
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FCC commissioner calls for greater scrutiny over 'adversary' submarine cable connections
With a focus on China
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After submarine cable accident, Facebook abandons equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid under Oregon seafloor
So much for just polluting the discourse
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China Mobile and Facebook in joint project to build 2Africa submarine cable
Along with a number of the biggest telcos in Africa
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Report: Google and Facebook abandon US-China cable plan over security fears
Two giants apply for a reduced trans-Pacific cable system that stops at the Philippines and Taiwan
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Facebook reportedly plans African submarine cable
It's called Simba, go figure
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Cumulus' Linux OS first to support Facebook's modular Minipack
The Linux based OS will be available pre-installed on Facebook's network hardware
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Facebook is laying 275 miles of fiber across West Virginia
The company's cable will connect major data centers along a 600 mile route
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Facebook shares load balancer, and describes a network 'vending machine'
Katran is Facebook’s open source load balancer, and the Vending Machine creates network devices on demand
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OCP Summit: Open Network Linux is ready for mass adoption
Open source project brings together Facebook, Google and Big Switch Networks
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OCP Summit: Facebook unveils Fabric Aggregator for linking DCs
Commercial hardware wouldn’t cut it, so Facebook built its own
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Facebook, China Telecom back submarine cable linking US and Hong Kong
Alcatel’s HKA cable expected to arrive in two years
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TE SubCom to deploy submarine cable between Japan and the US
JUPITER system will offer the fastest route across the Pacific by 2020
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Facebook redesigns its network to adapt to east-west traffic
The new Express Backbone simplifies routing between servers
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Facebook 100G switch accepted by OCP, delivered to users
Wedge 100 products delivered by Edgecore, as design is approved by Open Compute
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DCD Colo + Cloud: Why Facebook opened a software compatibility lab
Michael Liberte from Facebook talks about the changing relationship between hardware and software
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White Space 52: Stranger things
This week we look at unusual data centers, silicon photonics and Cisco job cuts