DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Networking, Meta
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Nvidia, Broadcom form group to standardize optical interconnects for next-gen AI clusters
OCI-MSA looks to drive open 'plug-and-play ecosystem’ in the notoriously fierce optics market
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Meta looks to redesign ILA fiber repeater buildings for modern networks
Social network company takes aim at fiber shelters
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Meta develops Simple Precision Time Protocol
New protocol can reportedly offer the exact same level of synchronization with a lot fewer resources consumed
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Australian ISP Move Up Internet to launch Meta-developed Terragraph gigabit technology
Will use Meta's Terragraph network
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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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Meta to deploy new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol
Moving on from Network Time Protocol (NTP)
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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