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Google is about to make landing page load time a factor in their AdWords Quality Score. The goal is to reward fast-loading websites and punish slow-loading ones, all to improve the ever-important user experience. From Google’s Inside AdWords blog: Keywords with landing pages that load very slowly may get lower Quality Scores (and thus higher [...]
We came across a very interesting article in Wired called A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World’s Densest Meet-Me Room. Over 260 ISPs, including major network providers like AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, all cross-connect in a single data center in an office building in downtown LA. Scissors and other sharp objects cannot be welcome here… [...]
The American Express homepage (home.americanexpress.com) was unavailable for over five hours today. During that entire time the page responded with an HTTP 404 error (page not found). Visitors to the homepage were met by a simple text message: “File not found.” The problem lasted from 05:47 a.m. to 10:52 a.m. Central European Time (11:47 p.m. [...]
Today we have transatlantic cables of massive capacity, handling all sorts of telecom traffic (including the internet). However, these submarine cables had a modest beginning. The first successfully deployed commercial transatlantic cable was in 1866, after a decade-long series of less successful attempts. Sending messages over this cable was incredibly expensive. The cost of speed [...]
Researchers at Bell Labs have managed to transfer optical data at the incredible rate of 16.4 Tbps over a 2,550 km distance (1,584 miles). That is 2.05 terabyte (2,050 gigabyte) per second, which is leaps and bounds ahead of what normal network equipment can currently handle. What 16.4 Tbps transfer speeds are capable of To [...]
