Topic

Data centre networking

The cabling, switches and interconnect fabric that carry traffic between servers and accelerators inside a data centre, and the engineering practices for installing and servicing it.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

Photonics aims at 20 of the 400 tonnes of copper inside a 100MW data centre

Operators are betting light replaces copper between the chips inside a data centre. Whether it does turns on hall temperature and cable routing as much as on an optical cost curve that is still expensive.

Publishers:bbc.co.uk

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives80
Confidence50