NVIDIA Data Center Tour
“ Some data center operators try to optimise the cost of every element and build a ‘ Frankenstein ’ system ”
— Brad Smith , Director of Marketing , Nvidia
Smith , director of marketing for networking interconnects at Nvidia .
” This moves all the networking specifications to the lowest level of interoperability across all the vendors .” The perils of a poorly optimised system are growing even greater , as the technology behind data centre cabling accelerates and the industry faces rising demand for super fast , stable connections .
Data centre cabling is undergoing something of a revolution , as the industry prepares to make yet another generational leap , from 100 Gb per second fibre - which became the industry standard speed in 2016 - to 400 Gb per second . The life cycle of cabling hardware is shortening as well . “ While most high-performance
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NVIDIA Data Center Tour
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