{"id":7395,"date":"2012-10-15T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2012-10-20T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T00:48:37","slug":"is-a-wireless-data-center-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7395","title":{"rendered":"Is a Wireless Data Center Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cornell.edu\/%7Ejyshin\/papers\/ancs2012_shin.pdf\">In a new paper<\/a>, a team of researchers from Cornell and Microsoft concluded that a data-center operator could replace hundreds of feet of cable with 60-GHz wireless connections\u2014assuming that the servers themselves are redesigned in cylindrical racks, shaped like prisms, with blade servers addressing both intra- and inter-rack connections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/is-a-wireless-data-center-possible\/\">Is a Wireless Data Center Possible?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although many 60-GHz technologies are under consideration (IEE 802.15.3c and 802.11ad, WiGig, and others), the authors picked a Georgia Tech design with bandwidth of between 4-15Gbps and and effective range of less than or equal to 10 meters. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beam_steering\" target=\"_blank\">Beam-steering<\/a> wasn\u2019t used because of the latencies involved in reinstating a dropped connection, although both time and frequency multiplexing were. (Because the team couldn\u2019t actually build the design, they chose Terabeam\/HXI 60-GHz transceivers for a conservative estimate.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new paper, a team of researchers from Cornell and Microsoft concluded that a data-center operator could replace hundreds of feet of cable with 60-GHz wireless connections\u2014assuming that the servers themselves are redesigned in cylindrical racks, shaped like prisms, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[457,41,78],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaces","tag-802-11","tag-data-centers","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions\/7812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}