DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Connectivity, 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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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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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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AT&T, FirstNet support comms for NASA's Artemis II mission around the Moon
Ahead of plans for a Lunar Base
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411km Tamtam cable from Vanuatu to New Caledonia gets Asian Development Bank financing
Complements existing cable to Fiji
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Finnish police seize ship that allegedly cut subsea cable, detain Russian crew
Suspected sabotage in the Baltic Sea
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UK and Norway plan joint naval patrols to protect subsea cables from Russia
Following Yantar's encroachment on UK waters
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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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Multiple subsea cables cut in the Red Sea, impacting Internet traffic in the Middle East and South Asia
Microsoft notes increased latency, but no major outages
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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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Project Waterworth: Meta announces world’s longest subsea cable project spanning five continents
50,000km cable wraps around the world
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Investigators suspect Baltic Sea cable cuts were deliberate, Chinese ship to blame
As European warships surround the Yi Peng 3, suspicions are still on Russia
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Kremlin on Baltic Sea cable cut: "It is quite absurd to continue to blame Russia for everything"
As Danish forces board Chinese vessel
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Trump Media launches custom CDN for Truth+ streaming service
No technical details exist about Perception repackage
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Irish military escorts Russian spy ship away from subsea cables
Friday incursion just the latest sighting of the Yantar
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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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US officials: Risk of Russian sabotage of subsea cables on the rise - report
Government claims that the Russian military has been seen near key subsea cables
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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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Lumen Orbit raises $2.4m for space data centers
Satellites with GPUs for orbiting compute
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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 Data tests data storage concept on lunar surface
Manages to send Declaration of Independence to the Moon in Odysseus' final days
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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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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to deploy 'in-space' cloud computing capability
Will Blue Ring work with Amazon Web Services?
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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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Amazon switches rocket, plans Kuiper Internet launch next month
Test launch comes amid launch bottlenecks