Google’s $12.2B Marvell warrant needs $120B of orders
Headlines called it a $12.2 billion stake, and if you stop at the first paragraph of the Reuters wire that is roughly what you get. Open the filing and it's ...
Tag: networking
Entanglement Ran 62 km of Aerial Fiber at 92.8% Uptime
Somewhere between Gaithersburg and College Park there's a strand of ordinary telecom fiber hanging off utility poles, doing what fiber on poles does: swaying in wind, stretching in the afternoon ...
NVIDIA Spectrum-6: what 102.4 Tb/s Ethernet changes
So NVIDIA put a 102.4-terabit-per-second Ethernet switch on stage on July 21, and the number is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Here's the short answer: Spectrum-6 roughly doubles the ...
MB vs MiB: why your 1 TB drive shows up as 931 GB
You buy a 1 TB drive, plug it in, and Windows cheerfully reports 931 GB. Nothing's broken and nobody robbed you, but it's annoying, and it comes down to MB ...
What is a /24? CIDR notation and subnet masks, finally clear
A ticket lands asking for a /24 for the new floor, and everyone in the thread nods like that obviously means something. Here's what it means: a /24 is a ...
What is DNS TTL? Cache, propagation and the values to use
You changed the record an hour ago, and half the office still lands on the old server. That's DNS TTL: the number of seconds a resolver may cache a DNS ...