Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Cloud Data Centers Now Originate, Terminate Traffic
Among the many changes happening in the global communications industry are changing patterns of traffic origination and termination. It has been some time since central offices originated and terminated most traffic. For some decades, internet exchange points were the places where traffic moved to, and from.
Now it is starting to be the cloud data centers that originate and terminate most traffic.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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