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Google Apollo: The >$3B Game-Changer in Datacenter Networking
- rektide 4y agoAs you can get higher radix fix becomes more interesting IMO. Less about switching who you talk to (although you do some of that) and more about how many channels you allocate. If future optical switches (or this one?) are multi-wavelength capable, the radix goes up! Even just separating a high & low band on each transceiver, making multiple links out of it (would require more complex transceivers) would be super useful/cool. I wonder how much Segment-Routing (SR) this all uses, an IP feature where packets pre-enscribe their route- or whether it's all custom stuff. Seems like a useful place for SR.
- dylan522p 4y agoThey use some of this too btw. Also wavelength level routing happens with breakout cables from ToR to Compute.
- pinewurst 4y agoIsn't there a certain sadness that all this clever technology is in the service of collecting info for ads?
- rektide 4y agoI might try to phrase it another way: isn't it sad that so few other enterprises have the resources & scale to try for similar? Why are there so few others in the world who might try these things?
- lern_too_spel 4y agoAds doesn't need this. Ads pay for this.