Cisco's CRS-3 triples capacity

Cisco has introduced a routing system it says is going to speed up the Internet in a big way, reports Mashable.

According to the company, Cisco CRS-3 - currently being tested by AT&T - is three times faster than its predecessor, which was introduced in 2004. Ultimately, it allows the telecom companies (Cisco's customers) to route traffic around the Internet faster.

The company says the CRS-3 will enable the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress to be downloaded in just over one second, and every man, woman and child in China to make a video call, simultaneously.

Data centres can go green without installing hardware, according to Sentilla, which has released a meter-free monitoring capability at Data Center World in Nashville this week, says EETimes.

Sentilla Energy Manager reports how much energy is being used and how much carbon is being produced by each device, letting IT optimise the data centre for both the lowest energy use and the smallest carbon footprint.

The software employs an AI inference engine to monitor power consumption without adding hardware on unmetered equipment. "Basically the inference engine is able to estimate the power utilisation of unmetered equipment by finding out what type of device it is and how much work it is doing," said Sentilla CEO Bob Davis.

For patients with back pain, major surgeries like disc fusion are often a treatment of last resort. Now, an emerging technology is allowing doctors to perform those procedures through incisions less than two inches long, states KGO-TV

The technique is known as XLIF, or Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion. X-rays help the surgeon guide the instruments and electrodes sound an alarm if they are nearing any nerves.

A specially-designed tool cuts and removes disc material between the two vertebrae. Because of the limited trauma during surgery, patients typically recover several weeks faster than traditional methods.