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Edgecore, 1Finity and Liqid Partner on Distributed DCs

Edgecore Networks, 1Finity from the Fujitsu Group, and Liqid have locked in an MOU to work together on a pretty ambitious idea. They want to build solutions that let companies run distributed data centers across huge distances. Not just between racks or buildings but anywhere from a few kilometers out to hundreds of kilometers, all tied together through an all-photonics network that does not get in the way of performance. The tech they are stitching together leans heavily on software defined composable infrastructure. Basically it lets resources like GPUs, FPGAs, memory, and storage move around and scale on demand even when the physical hardware is spread across multiple sites. You get wide area pooling without the usual friction and you get a lot more freedom to size, shuffle, or optimize…