internet

links, etc Verizon advances its fiber network for AI workloads | News Release | Verizon this is actually a pretty slick demo of 1.6T. ciena seems to be slaying it these days on the DSP front.

notes bookshop link this was a dense and often redundant read with a lot of the classic, academic need to spend a lot of time on (re)naming things. to summarize … tunnels are the new internet. you might not necessarily realize/recognize what’s going on, but the focus of today’s internet is no longer end-to-end connectivity and addressing, etc. it’s what you can accomplish with tunnels. this is true, pretty much everything that you’re going to do in internet and enterprise engineering for the remainders of our life time is going to be in the service of some form of tunneling....