New Zayo network POP open at Telepoint DC in Sofia, Bulgaria. #as6461 www.linkedin.com/posts/zayo-e...

Is Quantum computing being pitched as the green energy saviour? The most interesting takeaway from IDC earlier today. IBM is promising a 200 qubit computer by 2029 that can be used to off-load LLM training from standard AI compute and potentially save lots of energy. www.forbes.com/sites/stevem...

Yay.. about time!

Plan for the day… what could go wrong?

Probably one of the best regular datacenter reports to read and reference for work stuff: cushwake.cld.bz/globaldatace...

Bib number 223…. Less than 3 days! 😎 www.centurionrunning.com/races/chilte...

Cheap NAS anyone? sevenlayers.substack.com/p/inside-a-2...

Queen - One Vision or Fried Chicken?

Actually liked the look of the new orange iPhone until Wife said “ah you’re going for the Wienerphone?” 🤣. Can’t be having that piss-take so dark blue it is.

Reports are the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems are the ones affected near Jeddah.

High operational costs for maintaining compatibility with legacy systems and security challenges due to loss of traffic visibility... The Lost Decade of IPv6. blog.lacnic.net/en/the-lost-...

A little treat this weekend, summer #Biathlon showing on EurovisionSport 🎉🎉

Cold-weather kit activated for both the #OCC and #UTMB races this weekend. -7c windchill overnight! 🥶 montblanc.utmb.world/weather

Wrote another article on bandwidth demand, and how it's changing for enterprises. sevenlayers.substack.com/p/is-demand-...

Set myself up a SubStack to post up my work-related content. sevenlayers.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

My prediction for Chelsea this season in the Premier League is to finish 3rd.

This is pretty cool, apparently with "pinpoint accuracy". www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/20...

It’s hot outside! Yes, it’s summer 🙄 As energy demand for Datacentres increase due to AI, how are they looking at the cooling aspect? We were used to 5kW racks in the past, now it’s 30-50Kw per rack and that ain’t easy to air-cool. substack.com/@sevenlayers...

IXPs need to be included as “critical infrastructure” to reinforce the Internet itself. The facilities made the Internet succeed in the first place.

AI is generating so much data that in order to store, DCs are becoming DC clusters. This will drive a new range of low latency low distance optics.

This is another great episode to listen to. There are 3x key points to review from a business perspective: 1. We are not 100% clear what quantum computing can do yet. 2. "Harvest now, decrypt later" is real and how to defend it 3. Crypto collaboration, competition, and community is key to success.

Running a few errands over in Streatham... is EVERY road in south London now only 20mph? #traffic

Chamber lid spotted while grabbing lunch in London east end. Who remembers the TANET network, or who even owns them now? (And it’s not AS1659).

It’s 0520 in the morning in my Airbnb trying not to wake anyone while I prep for today’s race.

Great read 👍🏼

Just received my wave start time for the RTTK next weekend…top of my packing list is decent coffee and sun cream @ukrunchat.bsky.social

How about solar panels on the railways too? reneweconomy.com.au/linear-pv-wo...

The summer 5k trail race series is almost here, and I even managed to get on their promo photo😁 dartfordroadrunners.co.uk/joydens-wood...

Yes I know… and yes I still giggle at this 😁

Zayo Europe, IP team meeting in Paris bringing engineering, product and sales leaders together. #zayo

Recent media coverage on zonal electricity pricing is exactly why the telecoms market is looking towards strategic locations to invest in new #datacentres. I wrote more about this here: sevenlayernetworks.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...

Out watching friends take on the London Marathon this morning.

Great work event in Manchester last night for #zayoeurope along with Ciena.

Early morning in Manchester with a 6km run along the Bridgewater canal #mcr

Def seen enough of these AI generated toy figures on LinkedIn. Please stop 😒

Lunchtime run club at work, and still chamber spotting 😁 #zayo

I wrote a blog piece on the potential rise of 25Gb Ethernet. Is it going to become a thing? sevenlayernetworks.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

Announced last week, this is a game-changer in the global enterprise WAN market. cloud.google.com/blog/product...

Back at @netldn.bsky.social this evening.

Managed to drop in to #CloudFlareConnect earlier today and catch a couple of great sessions. Thought-provoking stuff on post-quantum cryptography, and the excellent David Tuber presenting an overview on @cloudflare.social infrastructure.

Has the recent datacenter rush for AI peaked already? www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1...

See you there!

Right…. bollocks to being sick. Diary today, work then run 👍🏼

One of the better April fools I saw this week… the Internet phone book 😁 nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Ap...

Looking forward to this weekend!

“…. and what the hell’s happened to my teeth??” 😂

An amazing final day to the #biathlon season. Preuss finally wins and a send off for the Bø brothers.

Must be a tougher than usual this year, less than 25% continue in to loop 2. #bm100

Sunday running.... sunny, cold, awesome @ukrunchat.bsky.social

This sounds so cool. Hope to try it one day.