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In many major cities, a single downtown building serves as a key hub where dozens or hundreds of networks connect. Here is what a carrier hotel...
Inside many colocation buildings is a room where networks physically connect to each other. Here is what a meet-me room is, how cross-connects work and why...
The Border Gateway Protocol is how the internet's independent networks tell each other which addresses they can reach. Here is how it works and why it...
The Domain Name System turns names like a website address into the numbers computers use. Here is how a DNS lookup works and why it matters...
Load balancers spread incoming requests across many servers so no single one is overwhelmed. Here is how they work, the main types and their role in...
Software-defined networking separates the brains of a network from the hardware that moves packets. Here is what that means and why large data centers adopted it.
Spine-leaf is not the only way to wire a cluster. This guide introduces the main network shapes used in data centers and supercomputers and the tradeoffs...
In AI training, one slow link can hold up thousands of chips. Here is how congestion happens, why the slowest messages matter most and how engineers...
AI systems connect chips at two levels, tightly within a server or rack and more broadly across a cluster. Here is what scale-up and scale-out mean...
A single strand of fiber can carry many independent data streams by using different colors of light. Here is how wavelength division multiplexing works and why...
Engineers are moving optical components closer to chips to save power and space. This explainer covers silicon photonics, co-packaged optics and why AI networks care.
Inside a rack, short links often still use copper, while longer ones use fiber. Here is how engineers choose between direct-attach cables, active cables and optics.
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