• Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa
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[QUOTE=Amez;37616734]This makes me wonder what sorts of things Google has hidden away in their 'Googlenet'.[/QUOTE] More porn then you could imagine
[QUOTE=duno;37620395]So it's basically a high-speed switch for their datacentres? Isn't that normal?[/QUOTE] Yeah, but the fact it's unique to google makes it interesting.
It might contain the knowledge of our origin, it might be origin itself
I know the guy who wanted to buy it was probably an amateur or something but I want to believe it was a jealous apple/microsoft/amazon employee eager to reverse engineer that shit and find out all of google's secrets
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I bet it's a switch. And I bet they're just fiber optic ports. Big todo over nothing.
[t]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb58374/epicrapbattlesofhistory/images/9/9f/HAL_9000.jpg[/t] [I]Dave.... Could you please plug that back in? I'm not sure what it is you are trying to do...[/I]
[QUOTE=Marik Bentusi;37617123]Well that's kind of a letdown.[/QUOTE] "I found a switch and all I got was this t-shirt [tab]sponsored by Google[/tab]" It does seem kind of weird that they are using their own physical connections, I would have though the usual RJ-45 terminations would be cheap enough for a company like Google to use massively with no worry. Unless their connector has some features that they rely on. Could also be a security thing I guess. [editline]edited[/editline] Let's just ignore that RJ-45 bit, totally forgot that this is most like a fiber switch for a minute...
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[QUOTE=hexpunK;37622819]"I found a switch and all I got was this t-shirt [tab]sponsored by Google[/tab]" It does seem kind of weird that they are using their own physical connections, I would have though the usual RJ-45 terminations would be cheap enough for a company like Google to use massively with no worry. Unless their connector has some features that they rely on. Could also be a security thing I guess.[/QUOTE] RJ-45 is too low-bandwidth. you're just looking at a proprietary fiber connector, its not a particularly unusual thing for large networks like Google has going.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;37623003]RJ-45 is too low-bandwidth. you're just looking at a proprietary fiber connector, its not a particularly unusual thing for large networks like Google has going.[/QUOTE] Shit :v: Didn't think about fiber for some reason when I posted that. That does make more sense then in that case.
I still don't know what I'm looking at here. I must've read the article 3 times, could someone explain this to me?
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;37623003]RJ-45 is too low-bandwidth. you're just looking at a proprietary fiber connector, its not a particularly unusual thing for large networks like Google has going.[/QUOTE] The connector (It's 8P8C too, not RJ-45) has nothing to do with the bandwidth, Ethernet goes up to 10Gbps (Which is what the device apparently runs at). That said, the connectors are proprietary, but I don't think they're fibre (The front pictures show pins, and the shot of the board shows them being wired directly onto the board, not optical components)
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;37624464]The connector (It's 8P8C too, not RJ-45) has nothing to do with the bandwidth, Ethernet goes up to 10Gbps (Which is what the device apparently runs at). That said, the connectors are proprietary, but I don't think they're fibre (The front pictures show pins, and the shot of the board shows them being wired directly onto the board, not optical components)[/QUOTE] that whole 8p8c vs rj45 thing is a lost battle. I know the connector itself isn't the limiting factor but the medium that the connector attaches to is. I see the pins now, the plugs themselves look very similar to SFP+ or maybe CXP but its pretty tough to tell from these photos.
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