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Tellus project completes implementation phase, advancing Gaia-X interconnection
components and services from multiple providers. This open-source platform ensures seamless connectivity while meeting Gaia-X compliance.
During its final phase, Tellus implemented a controller and service registry, which function as core elements of a super-node architecture. The controller provisions network and cloud services via APIs, while the registry stores and organises services using a graph database.
The Gaia-X development project Tellus has successfully completed its implementation phase, marking a major step forward in automated interconnection for distributed cloud environments.
In a proof-of-concept( PoC) demo, the platform enabled real-time transmission of hand movements to a robot via a smart glove and ensured low-latency connectivity for a digital twin from IONOS. The system also supported TRUMPF’ s automated laser cutting tools, optimising production.
Led by Internet Exchange operator DE-CIX, the project has developed a prototype infrastructure that provides fully automated, virtual access to networks for real-time, sensitive applications across multiple cloud providers.
“ Since Tellus registers the products of all participants in a standardised way... interconnection services can be composed endto-end via a weighted path search,” said Christoph Dietzel, Head of Product and Research, DE-CIX.
Tellus streamlines interconnection by automating service integration, eliminating the need for businesses to manually combine networking
The project marks a major milestone in secure, sovereign, and collaborative data processing.
UK public largely unaware of data centres’ critical role in society, study reveals
Half of UK consumers( 51 %) have never heard of the term
‘ data centre,’ highlighting a significant lack of awareness about their critical role in powering daily digital life.
New research from Telehouse reveals how, despite the increasing reliance on digital services and their recent categorisation by the government as Critical National Infrastructure( CNI), 67 % of UK consumers admit they do not know what a data centre is or does.
The survey, which involved over 2,000 UK consumers, identifies a significant gap in public understanding.
Nearly half( 43 %) of the respondents are unaware of the vast number of people, applications and data supported by these facilities.
Telehouse’ s findings also highlight a mixed perception of data centres’ importance in the context of remote working.
While 59 % see data centres as critical to enabling remote work, 19 % are unsure how these facilities support such activities, and 15 % consider them not very critical or not critical at all.
In an effort to bridge this knowledge gap, Telehouse has launched an educational initiative featuring a character named‘ DC’ explaining the functions of data centres.
Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Telehouse Europe, said:“ By introducing‘ DC,’ we hope to educate people about the critical work done in data centres and inspire our future generations to consider careers in this field.”
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