The international Standards body that specifies the requirements for today’s optical data communications for Data Center and Enterprise applications is the International Electronic & Electrical Engineers, i.e., the IEEE. The specified protocol for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communications is “Ethernet.” The name Ethernet comes from the ancient Greek word, Ether, meaning the air that fills the…
2018 was a spectacular year for change around the data centre environment. While researching my new paper – ‘Light into Money – The Future of Fibre Optics in Data Centre Networks’, There have been various bubbling under technologies that have broken through and are providing the impetus to some radical cloud environments. Edge Computing –…
The IT industry does an excellent job in advance positioning the next great innovation. We have been just a step away from the internet of things (IoT) for over 20-years, AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been around for as long as I can remember, and solid-state memory is set to take over from disk drives and…