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Broadcom First With 6.4Tbps Tomahawk II 64-Port 100GE Switch
A lot of us have Broadcom parts in one or more of our systems, but this news isn’t for consumers. Broadcom Limited announced the availability of its new family of switches optimized for cloud-scale data centers deploying high-density 100G switching solutions. Building on the widely deployed StrataXGS Tomahawk and Trident switch…
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Large Scale DDoS Attempted Take Down of DNS Root Servers
Someone actually tried the impossible on two separate occasions, to take down the internet’s backbone. They did ultimately fail for multiple reasons, but at the same time, they actually got a surprisingly good result out of their attack. Early last week the Internet’s DNS Root Servers, that are the authoritative reference…
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USA Intends to Provide Internet to Villages via Laser
According to US technology news website, TechnologyReview, several US communications carriers are going to pilot a technology which will see a laser beam internet up to speeds of 2 Gbps through the air – meaning underground cables don’t need to be laid. This advanced laser and millimeter wave technology is…
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