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AMD worked on a ARM core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12 but I'm not sure it would had work, they were never the best on the power consumption, so I'm not sure it would have been a good choice for the Switch.
Which depends on a lot of code not produced by Google, like libxml2 which was on the news recently because the maintainer step down.
> At that point Windows XP 32-bit was the most commonly used variant, and while you could run XP 64-bit (and IBM did have native support for it on the IntelliStation 9228), XP 64-bit had so many problems so most users were stuck with 3.9 GB of RAM. Therefore if we were to assume that UNIX and said UNIX hardware offered way more memory, it starts to make sense
I had the same issue with my MSI board, next one won't be a MSI.
So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services
I don't know the TV stations requirements, but you can maybe have 10 interconnected servers that manage 10 HDSDI flux each (and can send them on another if required for processing) ?
Not really, when you want to increase the bandwith, e.g. with vectoring[1], you need to have all neighbor modems to participate, which prevent free modem choice for the users.
>But it just doesn't work like that for DOCSIS or GPON where the cable modems or "ONT" router combo units these days do much more than just media conversion - SIP, PPPoE, IGMP, etc.
In Belgium, the ONT is just media conversion these days, SIP is done on the provider box, so you can have your own GPON SFP.
>so it's just not possible for the ISP to guarantee support for any random modem or ONT.
The ISP doesn't have to guarantee support to let you use your own hardware. It just have to give you the specs to use it and let you plug the ISP box if you can't configure vlan of dhcpv6 client.
> The cab was stripped back to bare metal because of the sheer number of new conduits, boxes and equipment and that was the only practical way to do it
And the system has to be homologated, which takes a lot of time to test in a unknown environment.