DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Networking, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Elon Musk gets FTC nod to acquire data center optics business Mesh Optical
The transceiver company was founded by SpaceX employees
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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including DCD)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted
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US ICE acquires roving fake cell towers to spy on phones
Spends more than $800,000 on cell site simulator vehicles
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Alex Palcuie joins Anthropic's growing AI Reliability Engineering team
Working across GPUs, TPUs, and Trainiums
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Nvidia unveils silicon photonics networking switches to reduce data center power consumption
Freeing up the power envelope for more GPUs
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Trump Media launches custom CDN for Truth+ streaming service
No technical details exist about Perception repackage
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Microsoft Research details early-stage modular robotics for data centers
Team behind Silica crabs tackles networking maintenance machines
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Cisco plans thousands more layoffs this year
Following 4,000 cuts in February
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Nvidia debuts X800 series switches for generative AI
Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet
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Viavi to acquire telecoms testing company Spirent for $1.27bn
And Silver Lake will invest $400m in Viavi
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Lonestar tests data center disaster recovery transmission on trip to the Moon
Sending the Declaration of Independence to the Moon
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Telesat to use Aalyria’s Spacetime networking tech for Lightspeed LEO satellite constellation
For delayed broadband network
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Google launches Cross-Cloud Network for multi-cloud connectivity
Because one cloud can't rule them all
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Microsoft blames Azure West Europe networking issues on severe weather conditions
Storm cut fiber between two Dutch data centers
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Nvidia debuts Spectrum-X networking platform for generative AI workloads
Company goes all in on the gen AI hype train
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DCD Podcast: The future of hyperscale networking, with Juniper Networks' Mike Bushong
And how that future will filter down to the wider industry
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OneWeb and AWS to explore cloud-based connectivity partnership
Companies sign a letter of intent, in early first step
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US Air Force's Global Strike Command to spend $75m on wireless network for nuclear silos
Will help with security, but hopefully isn't put to the test
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NTT develops prototype baseband amplifier chip for 2 terabytes per second networks
But a commercial chip is still years out
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Fishing & cargo boats blamed for two Taiwan submarine cable cuts
Chinese vessels is blamed for at least one of them
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Microsoft Azure outage blamed on WAN router IP change
Has taken steps to stop it happening again
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Ex-Digital Realty exec asks court to discard noncompete injunction
Peter Sprygada is banned from working in network automation for three years
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Amazon Web Services offers Time Sync as Public NTP Service
Previously only available to AWS customers
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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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Leap second set to be killed off before 2035
Unless the ITU blocks the move
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Canadian telco EBOX hit by brief outage in Quebec and Ontario
Just as the World Cup kicks off
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Google researchers confirm submarine cables are safe from solar storms
Until the Sun drops an anchor
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Cisco posts "largest quarterly revenue" in its history, announces layoffs
Says it is less about cost saving, and more about changing direction