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Mark Zuckerberg said it loud and clear, “2023 is the year of efficiency.” For Meta and other tech companies, that means doing more with less. Automation is one way to drive efficiency, taking repeatable tasks and implementing a solution that allows people to be more efficient and consistent at what they do.
Happy International Data Center Day! Today, we celebrate the vital role that data centers play in our increasingly digital world.
While many airlines were impacted by the winter storms that swept the nation during Christmas, most of them were back to running at full capacity a day after the storm passed.
The desire for a low-cost optical switch has been around for decades. As seen with long-haul networks in the late 1990s, the value of all-optical networks enabled by optical switches is greatest where the transmission bandwidth demand is greatest.
Data centers consume a lot of power. A single data center can consume as much power as a city and it is estimated that data centers account for ~2% of the total US energy consumption.
As reported in a recent Foundations newsletter “Equinix recently notified customers that prices would be increasing for both Cross Connects and Smart Hands, specifically citing the global macro environment including rising energy, construction, and labor costs.”
Multi-tenant data centers (MTDCs) are the hubs where businesses and service providers connect, forming the network of connections that allows information to flow to users across the internet.
Fiber optics is the plumbing of data centers. While the computation, storage, and switching equipment are the focus in data center design, all this equipment is connected by many thousands of fiber optic cables.
There is a well-known saying from a successful venture capitalist that “software is eating the world.” [1] In the article from 2011 written by Marc Andreessen, he made the point that young start-up companies based on software were able to compete against established companies and disrupt whole industries. I
Most multi-tenant data centers are built in phases, either with multiple data rooms within a single building or with multiple buildings on campus.
When discussing automating the fiber cross-connect process, most of the focus is on the initial connection. After all, that’s where the money is made. But this focus can neglect the importance of automating the disconnect part of the process as well.
There is a growing recognition of the need to deliver interconnection services faster to meet customer demand. This is highlighted by a recent article by Verizon and Equinix announcing a Software Defined Interconnect service
Security is a central concern of data center operators. This is shown by the large investment in multi-ringed security features such as fences and walls around buildings to multiple man-traps with biometric scanners before entering key parts of the facilities.
As optical networks have evolved to higher data rates to handle the astronomical increases in traffic, the percentage of network costs associated with optical components has grown significantly.
Multi-tenant data centers (MTDC) are one of the key parts of the interconnected world we now live in. One of the main functions they provide is a location for enterprises and networks to meet and exchange data.
