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Packets Down Range #18:Water cooling, fiber, and great rack!

Next week is WISPAMERICA2023 in Louisville Kentucky. I will be attending. Before then, I am going to try and squeeze in another PDR before the conference next week. If you have not signed up, please do so at this link. Data Center News•Google is getting in on the water cooling trend in their data centers. •Are enterprise data centers outliving their usefulness? •Jay Hanke talks about OSP entrances at their carrier hotels. •Databank issues 715 Million in secured notes. The new securitization notes...

March 1, 2023 by j2sw Newsletter

Packets Down Range #17:Cogent Wavelengths, earnings news, DDoS

I am fresh back from Nanog #87 in Atlanta. Great times! Thank you to those who gave me some lines on this week’s news articles. Keep those submissions coming. By now, everyone who has signed up should be receiving this in their e-mail box. If you could simply comment at the bottom of this post that you received the email, I would appreciate it. if you have not signed up, please do so at this link. This week’s Patreon edition will be available...

February 17, 2023 by j2sw Newsletter

Packets Down Range #14:Virgina Data Centers, more job cuts, Paypal breach

Amazon delivered my new 49″ curved monitor today. It reminds me how much I love tech and new gadgets. I wanted to thank each and every one of you who are Patreons. In December, I had the unfortunate time of hitting a dear in texas. Due to all of the airbags deploying, the car of my dreams was totaled. I am getting closer each day to my goal of replacing the vehicle. This would not be possible without your support. Anyway, on to...

January 20, 2023 by j2sw Newsletter

Goggle Stadia Shutting down

From a Google Blog PostWe’re grateful to the dedicated Stadia players that have been with us from the start. We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and all game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store. Players will continue to have access to their games library and play through January 18, 2023 so they can complete final play sessions. We expect to have the majority of refunds completed by mid-January, 2023. We have more details...

October 1, 2022 by j2sw news

New Undersea Cable – Grace Hopper

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/announcing-googles-grace-hopper-subsea-cable-system …We’re excited to announce a new subsea cable—Grace Hopper—which will run between the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain, providing better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise products.

July 29, 2020 by j2sw Equipment