East-west and north-south are terms with specific meaning in the data center business. East-West means traffic that moves between servers in a single data center. North-south means traffic that moves between a data center and other locations.
But the terms also are important in a traditional geographic sense. Most global traffic flows--geographically--east and west, although a growing volume of traffic also flows north-south. That is the sense in which executives at FP Telecom describe their business.
FP Telecom's primary business is long haul transport between North America and South America.
Monday, February 13, 2017
East-West or North-South?
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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