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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

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Big data is an evolving term that describes any voluminous amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that has the potential to be mined for information. Although big data doesn’t refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data.

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Calient Gets $27 Million To Take SDN At Light Speed » Data Center.

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Using 3D MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) and all optical switches in the data center means that without upgrading the switch, speeds can go from 10Gbps to 40Gbps and then 100 Gbps. RELATED POSTS: Hybrid Packet-Optical Circuit Switch Networks are New Data Center Standard. Silicon Photonics: The Data Center at Light Speed.