Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At that level, Las Vegas and Reno’s data centers will require 3,812 MW of energy to operate – which is enough electricity to power 3.1 Nevada Energy, the largest utility company in the state, generates most of its power from renewable resources like geothermal, hydroelectric, and solar energy. million homes. million homes.

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Network World

JULY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services has been seriously bolstering its network to handle the increased demands associated with its AI-based applications and services. Instead of preserving packets order, SRD sends the packets over as many network paths as possible, while avoiding overloaded paths. The new network, UltraCluster 2.0,

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A push for greater network visibility and global security standards drove Orbia, an $8.2 Visibility into network traffic across distributed locations would help Orbia minimize security risk, enable more control over global internet traffic, and provide secure access to cloud services.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Jokel talked with Network World about three key technological trends Ciscos is actively pursuing: the rise of agentic AI, preparing for the quantum era in networking and security, and addressing the growing demand for sustainable and efficient infrastructure. We also need to look at how we network together quantum computers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Multiple business imperatives are driving CIOs to re-examine and re-invent their approach to network infrastructure, including the mission critical backbone that supports highly complex, bandwidth-intensive, multi-cloud environments. One emerging alternative: backbone-as-a-service (BBaaS) offerings.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies is growing as well. But the use of fiber optics in networks is not without its challenges.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

And with IDC concluding that network security and data security are among the key priorities of businesses in the next few years (with global spending seeing a 13% CAGR between 2021 and 2026) modernizing the network infrastructure is a must. Central to such a platform, too, is integrated network and security.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

As silicon photonics uses light instead of electricity for interconnects, Lightmatters technology has an edge in terms of offering better bandwidth, energy efficiency, and improvements in latency, said Kasthuri Jagadeesan, research director at Everest Group. The technology could also impact energy consumption in data centers.

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

In addition, the homegrown Graviton processor powered more than 250,000 CPUs during Amazon Prime Day, showing its efficiency in handling demand, according to a presentation at the recent AWS: reInvent conference by Dave Brown, vice president of AWS compute & networking services. So, its more of a trend as opposed to a one-off, he said.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

AI servers can be $100,000 to $200,000, especially when equipped with the latest Nvidia CPUs, Fung tells Network World. The deployment of dedicated AI servers also has an impact on networking, power and cooling. Networking will be heavily impacted by AI. AI is also very power-hungry. You have to future-proof.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, has unexpectedly removed its CEO, Peter Herweck, due to disagreements over the company’s strategic direction. The board cited “divergences in the execution of the company roadmap at a time of significant opportunities” as the reason for Herweck’s removal.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is geared toward helping enterprises and hyperscalers more easily and inexpensively use optical technology in their networks.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

AT&T said it will retire the old copper infrastructure while at the same time expanding its much faster fiber networks. The Copper network is incredibly inefficient, said a company spokesperson in an email. Its an energy hog, because every line and every element is powered all the time.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And now, thanks to a major network expansion, theres no shortage of high-bandwidth streaming. Designed for a maximum capacity of 40Gbps, the 6E network triples the bandwidth of the prior network. 28, the Wi-Fi was able to comfortably support a network load that hit 22.37 In the teams first game on Sept.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

However, he said, the result is a nominal increase in our annual energy usage compared to our evaporative data center designs across the global fleet. While evaporative cooling consumes less energy, but significantly more water, air cooling consumes no water, but significantly more energy. Many also use air cooling systems.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

In its white paper, “ Powering Intelligence: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Energy Consumption ,” the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) noted that one key uncertainty that could change the trajectory of data center load growth is the use of generative AI models. watt-hours for a traditional Google search to 2.9

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

Wi-Fi Certified 7 was introduced in January 2024 and is seeing strong momentum, Maureen Gallagher, vice president of marketing at Wi-Fi Alliance, told Network World. All the major enterprise Wi-Fi networking vendors now have Wi-Fi 7 in their respective portfolios. Whether or not that actually occurred is a matter of perspective.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Compounding the challenge, IT cannot easily predict how business changes will affect their networks, and these changes rarely take place steadily over time, but in short bursts of dramatic growth or contraction. This unpredictability makes traditional network infrastructure planning extremely difficult.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Boeing is “taking on the challenge of entanglement swapping in space,” says Jay Lowell, chief engineer of disruptive computing, networks and sensors at Boeing. Achieving a global-scale quantum network requires substantial work,” says Lowell. Another use case is to network together small quantum computers into larger computing clusters.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

inch form factor, the D5-P5336 consumes up to 84% less storage power in network-attached storage (NAS) deployments versus a legacy hybrid hard-disk drive triple level cell (TLC) solutions. It can reach 7.4 GB per second of sequential reads, pretty much saturating the PCIe 4.0 With 122TB in a 3.5-inch S and PCIe Gen5 60TB SSD.

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As concerns over AI energy consumption ratchet up, chip maker Nvidia is defending what it calls a steadfast commitment to sustainability. Google, meanwhile, has been making progress with geothermal energy in Nevada. Energy shortages are “self-inflicted” due to projects being stalled by red tape, said Smith. watt-hours.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“The rapid expansion of compute infrastructure to support training for genAI has created a major electrical power availability challenge,” said a Gartner research note on emerging technologies for energy-efficient generative AI compute systems by researchers Gaurav Gupta, Menglin Cao, Alan Priestley, Akhil Singh, and Joseph Unsworth.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In many ways, networking is a mature, stable industry, based on established technologies like Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. But networking vendors are constantly innovating to keep pace with skyrocketing volumes of traffic that need to move securely and reliably across complex multicloud environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, concerns about their energy consumption and environmental impact have raised questions about their compatibility with ESG objectives. Aligning IT operations with ESG metrics: CIOs need to ensure that technology systems are energy-efficient and contribute to reducing the company’s carbon footprint.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2022

Key US government security organizations are warning that industrial control system (ICS)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)-based networks are being threatened by bad actors armed with custom software tools. Dragos has posted a paper about part of the threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The heightened demand is set to pose challenges for tech giants and cloud providers who rely on consistent energy to maintain operations, and experts predict these constraints could affect innovation and the rollout of future AI applications, the report added. An AI hyperscale data center can consume as much as 100 MW of power.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. The traditional reliance on firewalls and VPNs for cybersecurity is proving inadequate in the face of mounting cyberthreats and changes to network designs due to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Through 2027, Fortune 500 companies will shift $500 billion from energy opex to microgrids to mitigate chronic energy risks and AI demand. Fortune 500 companies who spend some of their operating expenses on energy should consider investing in microgrids which will offer a better return than continuing to pay rising utility bills.”

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

AI providers, semiconductor fabricators, and network equipment manufacturers can use KAI to accelerate design, development, deployment, and operations by pinpointing performance issues before deploying in production. Scaling AI data centers requires more than component-level validation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

As digitisation gathers pace, manufacturers, energy companies, and transportation businesses are among the sectors increasingly turning to private 5G to connect their operational technology (OT) environments. With 5G, the OT network is encrypted end-to-end, which enables completely secure communication between devices and systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

For others, such as UK Power Networks, a more methodical and protracted journey has proved to be the best approach. The London-based energy distributor and system operator is close to completing a major migration to a hybrid cloud infrastructure that will serve roughly one third of all residents and businesses in the United Kingdom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2024

AIOps: improving network performance and intelligence The enterprise network — already bigger, faster, and smarter than ever — is somehow still ripe for more AI-driven improvement. Several panelists also mentioned that AI can help in scaling up the enterprise network. We hope AI can serve as another set of eyes there.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

This transformation is fueled by several factors, including the surging demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and the exponential growth of renewable energy and battery storage. In addition, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar further complicate grid management due to their intermittent nature and decentralized generation.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

Nvidia introduced a new silicon photonics network switches that integrate network optics into the switch using a technique called co-packaged optics (CPO), replacing traditional external pluggable transceivers. improvement in power efficiency, 10x greater network resiliency, and 1.3x The use of CPO translates to a 3.5x

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Adversaries are pre-positioning themselves within critical networks, supported by a broader ecosystem that includes shared tooling, training pipelines, and sophisticated malware development. These networks are similar to botnets, but are primarily used as proxies, and are often administered by independent contractors that are based in China.

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