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Packets Down Range #36: BlueBird, Cisco, HOUIX

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date May 29, 2025

Summer is finally here in Indiana. The leaves are green, the birds are chirping, and the Internet is humming along. Let’s get right into PDR #36. Interconnection & Data Center News•KC-IX/HOUIX expands into Fibertown. •Rich Miller shares his top 5 …

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Packets Down Range #31: Hedge Podcast, Microsoft, Cisco, Arista.

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date March 28, 2024

It’s been a busy almost spring so far. One of the highlights of the past few months was being invited to do a Hedge Podcast with Russ White and Tom Ammon. It was a great time. We talked about the …

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Packets Down Range #31:Meta, Google, Indiana Digital Equity

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date February 5, 2024

It’s the beginning of the year. Do you know what that means? It’s time for conferences. FISPA livejust wrapped up. Metro Connect and others are coming. Also lots of news out of my home state of Indiana this edition. Data …

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Packets Down Range #30:Lumen, Databank, and investments in networks

  • Post author j2sw
  • Post date January 21, 2024

Greetings from the great frozen Tundra of Indiana. It was 21 degrees today, which has been a heatwave. In this issue, we have a lot of data center news. Lunmen shuts down their CDN, Databank expands, and some great tech …

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Packets Down Range #9:Lumen, Cloud, 800GB switches. Sponsors needed

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  • Post date December 18, 2022

Welcome to issue #9 of Packets Down Range. I am a little behind because a deer decided to jump in front of my car on a recent trip to Texas. There wasn’t much damage, but almost all the airbags were …

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