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How Google uses mirrors dynamically reconfigure its networks dynamically, – Tiny electromechanical units bounce traffic down different fibers Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second since 2015, and some of that growth has come from switches that bounce optical signals off an array of mirrors to redirect traffic. …
