Data Center
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What is a Tier 1 network?
What is a Tier 1 network? A Tier 1 network is “an IP (Internet Protocol) network that can reach every other network on the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection”[2] (that is, they can reach the entire internet via settlement-free peering). You can think of Tier 1 networks as having a kind of “golden VIP pass” with each other, and each Tier 1 network can exchange traffic with other Tier 1 networks without paying any fees for the exchange of traffic in either direction. (This contrasts with some Tier 2 networks and all Tier 3 networks which must pay to transmit traffic on other networks.) Universally recognized Tier 1 networks include…
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What is a data center? And Why Are They So Important??
Many people may have heard the term “data center” but most don’t really know what that means. Nonetheless, these data centers are incredibly important to our everyday way of life. What is a data center? Data centers are these vast, huge, sometimes-sprawling buildings dedicated to holding the back-end computer systems, machinery and associated components needed to help run what we consumers know of as “the internet”. In a way these data centers are “the cloud” that we think of when we say our info is “stored out there…in the cloud”, and these data centers can use as much electricity as a small town. What is colocation? A colocation data center…
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What is “the cloud”? #Cloud #CloudComputing #CloudNetworking
The cloud. Conjures up all kinds of memories of looking toward the sky and gazing at these constantly evolving, ephemeral, floating objects. In the tech world some terms are flexible and can be a bit tricky, or hard to contain to one concrete definition. The “cloud” is a network “out there”. Indeed the very internet itself can be the cloud in some ways. Many consumers quickly warmed up to cloud with the easy adoption of web-based email like “Gmail” which is essentially “email in the cloud”. Instead of being stored on our local machines, we became used to storing our email with Google in their “cloud”. But a “cloud” has…
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Protected: What is Equinix? And Why Are They So Important??
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