hyperscale

February 20, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Quenching the Never-ending Thirst for Capacity and Scale

5 min read

Here’s what we need: build a data center that can support billions of unique server sessions per day. Also, let’s have it bring up personalized images, video, and other rich media content for hundreds of millions of people, simultaneously, the second they hit our servers. Learn how Cisco is quenching the thirst for capacity and scale.

January 16, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

QSFP-DD800 MSA Paves The Way For 800G Links In Data Centers

3 min read

A new 800G MSA is formed to support continued growth in traffic demand and the resulting need for higher link data rates in data centers. Once again, Cisco is there at the forefront.

December 5, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Global Data Center Growth: Supporting the Next Data Deluge

2 min read

Data centers house servers, physical or virtual, that provide storage, communications, and networking to the growing number of networked devices, users, and business processes in general. The growing importance of data analytics—the result of big data coming from ubiquitously networked end-user devices and IoT alike—has added to the value and growth of data centers. We […]

Your competitors are using segment routing, don’t get left behind

2 min read

Segment routing is coming to a competitor near you and it will be a key element of the network infrastructure of the future. But what is it and how will it offer tangible benefits for you, the service provider? It promises to simplify network operation and ensure the best performance of vital applications on that […]

March 17, 2016

DATA CENTER

Server Density Fine Print…

3 min read

The role of IT is to maximize business capacity, and refreshing your servers is an opportunity to increase capacity, reduce hardware and most importantly, lower costs for the business. It is reasonable to assume that packing more physical servers into less rack space helps you accomplish these goals. Here is the problem: If you increase […]