Optimizing data center placement, network design to strengthen cloud computing
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 12:21
in Mathematics & Economics
Telecommunication experts estimate the amount of data stored 'in the cloud' or in remote data centers around the world, will quintuple in the next five years. Whether it's streaming video or business' database content drawn from distant servers, all of this data is -- and will continue in the foreseeable future to be -- accessed and transmitted by lasers sending pulses of light along long bundles of flexible optical fibers.