By Stephen Liu - One of the topics we covered this week at the Cisco Packet
Optical Networking Conference was cloud computing. A benefit of cloud
computing is that the physical infrastructure – the storage and compute
resources – can be located almost anywhere as long as there is reliable
network access. Several countries are leveraging their low cost green power
to grow their economies with new data center facilities. A publicly announced
example of this is Facebook which has built an enormous facility in northern
Sweden. Iceland with its cooler temperatures and green geothermal power, plus
ideal location between North America and Europe has seen a significant growth
in its data center industry. However, being an island nation it faces a
challenge to ensure that sufficient cost-effective network capacity is
available to connect off-island users with its storage and... (more)
Greetings from (very) sunny Las Vegas! I am here at the second annual Cloud
Carrier Forum (CCF), and this year’s [...]
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The last time I blogged about CCAP , we were checking the online anagram
universe for words one could make out of “CMAP” and [...]
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Mobile video is exploding at a rate unimagined only a few short years ago.
Whereas the quick YouTube clip had [...]
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For many students, this time of the year marks “Spring Break”. (Ah,
just the thought of this brings back fun [...]
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