data center networking

Microsoft’s lab in Cambridge has a simple pitch: swap expensive, power-hungry lasers for mass-produced MicroLEDs and pair them with imaging fiber to carry thousands of parallel light channels, and you can radically cut the energy, cost and fragility of the short-range links that glue modern AI...

Cisco’s president Jeetu Patel says the company has already shipped a product whose code was written entirely by AI — and he expects at least half a dozen more such products by the end of 2026 — a claim that shifts the enterprise software conversation from “assistive AI” to “agent-driven...

Cisco’s move into servers marks one of the most consequential product launches in the company’s history: the Unified Computing System (UCS) bundles compute, networking, storage access, and virtualization into a single, policy-driven platform and it arrived with an unusually broad ecosystem of...

Latham & Watkins told its more than 400 first‑year associates in a mandatory two‑day “AI Academy” that artificial intelligence is not optional—it's now part of standard legal practice, and mastery of the tools will be a core expectation of modern lawyering. Background The training weekend in...

OpenAI’s deal with Broadcom to co-develop and deploy custom AI accelerators marks a decisive escalation in the race to control the computing backbone of generative AI — a strategic pivot that promises higher performance and lower marginal cost for the company’s large language models, while also...

Cisco’s new Silicon One P200 chip and the 8223 routing system mark a strategic push to make geographically distributed data centres operate like a single, gigantic AI computer — promising massive throughput, much lower power draw, and the buffering required to keep AI training jobs coherent...

The hollowing-out of fiber optics just passed an important milestone: a research team tied to Microsoft and the University of Southampton has reported a hollow‑core optical fiber design that both lowers signal loss below the long‑standing practical floor for silica fiber and propagates light...

Microsoft’s move into hollow‑core optical fiber signals a potential inflection point for high‑speed networking: lab and limited field results show an air‑core design with measured attenuation as low as 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a substantially lower loss than the practical floor of modern silica...

Microsoft and the University of Southampton have published what the teams describe as a watershed result in optical communications: a hollow‑core optical fiber with measured attenuation of 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a performance level that — if reproduced in production volumes and field...