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Google cobbled together its own switches
It's switchcraft
Tue Nov 20 2007, 14:12
A GUY reckons that rather than use commercially available switches, Google went and built its own.
Seeking Alpha has confirmed that little Google gnomes in the Google backrooms designed and built 10GbE switches inside their data centres.
In doing so, the article continues, Google didn't bother using the usual standards but instead paddled its own canoe. But even though this is another of Google's little secrets, another company called Arastra is taking a similar approach with a set of commercial products. µ
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Google's founders pretty much admitted that all of the hardware used by Google is developed by them, stating it's actually cheaper, in the book "The Google Story". All this guy really had to do was read that to find out.
I don't see whats the big deal...nothing in google is really standard. They logo plaster their servers, have abnormal employees and are generally very very irregular when it comes to everything. Just contemplate the name "google" and your answers will all be found.

Funny thing is, it is not a bad thing ;-)