Facebook's two-year old Open Compute Project (OCP) first tackled datacentre servers, motherboards and power supply, and now has designs on networking with an open switch. With networking OEMs ...

Most network engineers are sharp as tacks about networking technologies, even those tricky things like NAT and subnetting. They can be dull as dirt, however, when it comes to pitching their projects ...

Network professionals are typically well-versed in the technical aspects of networking: router and switch configuration, server deployment and management, and so on. However, network pros are rarely ...

Google will also collaborate with Facebook to create a common 48V rack that can be used in cloud data centers. Read now Microsoft is submitting more technologies for consideration by the Open Compute ...

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The Open Compute Project began in 2011 when Facebook published the designs of some homebrew servers it had built to make its data centers run more efficiently. Facebook hoped that other companies ...

For the last two years, Google has been quietly building out one of the most advanced computer networks known to geeks—using a protocol that is poised to disrupt the $100 billion global computer ...

The Open Compute Project says it has broken tight bonds between hardware and software that have kept networking closed for decades—and it took less than two years. Switches and routers traditionally ...

Undersecretary of the Navy Erik Raven discusses the state of the U.S. Navy on Sept. 7, 2022, at the annual Defense News Conference. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy will deploy a ...