Data centers, networks and the cloud underneath everything. What runs production, and what happens when it stops.
Orange and regional partners are building ReuNION, a next-generation submarine cable system spanning the Indian Ocean to replace aging infrastructure and support growing cloud and enterprise demand on the French overseas island.
Ireland's planning appeals board has upheld permission for AWS to build a subsea cable landing station in County Cork, clearing the way for Fastnet, the company's first privately owned transatlantic fiber link to Maryland.
Australian AI infrastructure operator Firmus has committed to a 25-year, $300 million agreement with submarine cable builder SUBCO to anchor the APX East trans-Pacific cable system, securing 150 Tbps of dedicated bandwidth to move AI processing outputs to U.S. customers.
The pan-African carrier-neutral operator secured a landmark investment on September 1, 2026, at LEAP in Riyadh to scale subsea cables, terrestrial fiber, and data centers across 30+ nations.
Nvidia has secured a deal to acquire Hugging Face, the major open-model repository, for $12.9 billion. CEO Jensen Huang has pledged the platform will remain hardware-agnostic and open to all accelerators, though industry observers note the acquisition raises questions about long-term neutrality.
A recent study examining how DNS resolvers handle locally cached root zone data found that zone update cycles can generate substantial network overhead, sometimes exceeding traffic from queries to root servers themselves.
Researchers have developed an eBPF-based system that moves Layer 7 policy processing from user-space service proxies into the kernel, reducing request latency by up to six times for the majority of real-world deployments.
Rising memory costs are pushing Cloudflare to rethink how it stores data across its distributed CDN. A new prototype trades modest CPU overhead for petabytes of recovered storage capacity by compressing eligible assets with Zstandard before they hit disk.
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