This page provides several links giving access to reference information about the why’s and how’s of optical infrastructure to interconnect data center worldwide, plus some information, insights and announcements on data centers themselves and networking technologies.
Internet
- Internet trends 2016 (KPCB)
- Big data on Internet usage (Internet live stats)
- Data Never Sleeps (Domo)
- The top 500 sites on the web (Alexa)
- ITU’s portal for key ICT data and statistics (International Telecommunication Union)
- State of the Internet (Akamai)
Data Centers
- Google data center page (Google)
- Engineering intra data center network (Facebook)
- Design and construction of new LinkedIn’s data center in Oregon (LinkedIn)
- Online source of news and analysis about the data center industry (Data Center Knowledge)
- A second source of information about the data center industry (DatacenterDynamics)
- Facebook engineering blog (Facebook)
- Microsoft Azure blog (Microsoft)
Optical Transmission Infrastructure
- Submarine cable maps (TeleGeography)
- African subsea cable systems (Many Possibilities)
- ITU interactive transmission map (International Telecommunication Union)
- Website dedicated to the submarine cable industry (Submarine Telecoms Forum)
- Fascinating article in late1996 about laying the FLAG cable system (WIRED magazine)
- An outside-the-industry vision of subsea cable systems (Builtvisible)
- A deep dive into Internet infrastructure (Ars Technica UK)
- Telecom Infra Project (TIP)
- FCC submarine cable applications (Federal Communications Commission)
- FCC circuit capacity data for US-international submarine cables (Federal Communications Commission)
Networking
- MPLS tutorial (Sudeep Goyal)
- TCP/IP guide (Charles M. Kozierok’s )