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Telecom Giants Join Facebook's Open Compute Project As Pressure Mounts For Cisco
2016-01-28 19:08:58| Telecom - Topix.net
Telecom heavyweights joined Facebook's Open Compute project on Wednesday, bringing more heft to the social media giant's crusade to bring low-cost data center gear to the masses and potentially jeopardizing Cisco's dominance in the carrier infrastructure space. U.S.-based AT&T and Verizon, German carrier Deutsche Telekom, British mobile network operator EE and South Korea's SK Telecom signed on to back Facebook's foundation for open-source data center design.
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