Connect, protect, and build anytime, anywhere | Cloudflare

Connect, protect, and build anytime, anywhere | Cloudflare

At Cloudflare, we have an ambitious goal - to help build a better Internet. We believe that with our excellent team, advanced technology and loyal users, we can solve some of the most important problems on the Internet. How significant are these issues? In 2004, Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway began to address a fundamental question: "Where does spam come from?" They established a system that allowed any website owner to track how spam creators collect email addresses. Project Honey Pot was born from this. Project Honey Pot has quietly developed over the years. Lee's flexible architecture has evolved to be able to track more threats faced by web administrators. Thousands of websites from over 185 countries/regions have signed up for the project. Although users appreciate the ability of Project Honey Pot to track malicious online behavior, they repeatedly demand the same: stop just tracking and stop it! In 2009, Mattew took advantage of his paid vacation to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. There he met Michelle Zatlyn, the current Chief Operating Officer of Cloudflare. One day, while chatting, Mattew mentioned Project Honey Pot and its amazing user community. Michelle immediately recognized the opportunity to create a service to raise the Project Honey Pot to a new level: not only to track Internet threats, but also to stop them. These two students began to develop a business plan. The first thing is to come up with a name. The first business plan was called 'Project Web Wall', but it did not resonate. A friend of Matthew suggested that since we are building a 'firewall on the cloud', we should use the name Cloudflare. As soon as they heard the name, they immediately felt it was right and made a decision immediately. Matthew and Michelle collaborated with faculty from Harvard Business School to refine the business plan. Meanwhile, Lee built his first working prototype in his spare time. In April 2009, Cloudflare won the championship in the prestigious Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition. Lee was living in California at the time, while Michelle and Matthew also moved to California after graduating from Harvard Business School. These three co founders spent the entire summer perfecting the Cloudflare prototype. They believe that Cloudflare has solved the real needs and are working to elevate Cloudflare to a new level. In November 2009, Cloudflare completed its Series A funding round with Ray Rothrock from Venrock and Carl Ledbetter from Pelion Venture Partners. Matthew, Lee, and Michelle started forming the Cloudflare team. It is not easy to recruit people without products, but one thing has moved everyone: Cloudflare's core mission is to help build a better Internet. This is a project that fills excellent engineers with passion. Soon after, Cloudflare began to have an excellent team stationed in its office in Palo Alto, California, consisting of people who had jumped from top companies such as Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Mint.com. The biggest concern for investors and advisors is that Cloudflare's solution, which is designed to protect website security, is likely to cause delays. So the entire team began to exert all their efforts to eliminate every possible delay point in the system. In June 2010, Cloudflare quietly launched a private beta version for a small group of members in the Project Honey Pot community. The entire team held their breath in anticipation of the results. Then, something surprising happened. Users have started writing that Cloudflare not only protects them from online threats, but also increases the average loading speed of their website by 30%. The efficiency of the Cloudflare system, the caching layer for static resources, and the fact that Cloudflare helps its user websites resolve large amounts of junk traffic mean that Cloudflare not only provides security, but also incredible performance. Since Cloudflare was first discussed on the Harvard Business School campus in 2009, this program has been aimed at officially announcing its launch at the TechCrunch conference. On September 27, 2010, Cloudflare really did this. The entire Cloudflare team gathered at the TechCrunch Disrupt Auditorium in downtown San Francisco. The first batch of beta users are very happy because they can finally share with everyone how great the service they have been using for several months is. Matthew and Michelle stepped onto the stage to announce the official launch of Cloudflare to the world. Since then, over the course of 6 years, Cloudflare has launched dozens of products and hundreds of features, opened 6 offices in 3 countries/regions, and put 320 data centers online. All of these efforts have brought Cloudflare's advantages to millions of customers worldwide: security, performance, reliability, and insight.

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Dronecode Foundation - We are using open source to set standards for the drone industry - join this community!

Dronecode Foundation - We are using open source to set standards for the drone industry - join this community!

The Dronecode Foundation promotes community and innovation through the use of open standards. Part of the Linux Foundation serves as a vendor neutral homepage for PX4, MAVLink, QGroundControl, Pixhawk, and MAVSDK. The Dronecode Foundation (DF) hosts an open source and open standards project that is crucial to the drone industry. DF is an open drone project foundation independent of vendors and is part of the Linux Foundation. We collaborate with developers, end-users, and suppliers from around the world. Our mission is to enable organizations to build and operate secure and scalable drone applications in modern and trustworthy solutions. Autonomous driving systems, task planners, communication protocols, declarative APIs, and open reference hardware (such as flight controllers) are leading our strategy. These technologies enable developers to build reliable systems in an open ecosystem. We hope that future developers can safely test and deploy drone applications on their desktops. We are creating a community of like-minded individuals and organizations that fosters a sustainable ecosystem of open source and open standards, enabling anyone to succeed and use our technology. Our ecosystem is a thriving community composed of developers, component manufacturers, solution and service providers, and even enterprise distributions.

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Corning Optical Communications | Fiber Optic Connectivity Solutions

Corning Optical Communications | Fiber Optic Connectivity Solutions

We provide fiber connectivity solutions for every part of the network, including carriers, data centers, indoor networks, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Since the invention of low-loss optical fiber in 1970, which led to the telecommunications revolution, Corning has continued to innovate to increase the speed and capacity of fiber networks, while delivering innovations that make deployment simpler and more cost-effective. Today, we are powering outdoor and indoor 5G networks, as well as hyperscale data centers. The demand for data continues to soar, doubling every few years, but current infrastructure has failed to keep up with consumer demand. Corning's fiber-based solutions enable consumers and businesses to keep communicating by enabling fast, reliable connections to the world, anytime, anywhere. Thanks to these optical communications technologies, people have more convenient access to video, voice, and information than ever before. But that's not enough. Consumers expect to exchange data in the blink of an eye, especially as they communicate more virtually and online than ever before. Corning is addressing 5G-ready networks and powerful hyperscale data centers with market-leading innovations that make slow speeds and dropped connections a thing of the past. Today, many are preparing for 5G. Corning has been preparing for 5G networks for the past 50 years. Since three Corning scientists invented optical fiber in 1970, Corning has been innovating to enable the faster, more reliable connections needed for today’s networks. The future of 5G networks depends on the optical fiber technology invented by Corning. Outdoors, the transition from 3G and 4G to 5G requires densification—deploying more and more fiber. To achieve the speed and availability advantages of 5G, signals must travel shorter distances than 3G and 4G, which places new demands on infrastructure. Evolv™ Enhanced Connectivity Solutions is a new Corning innovation that extends 5G to more places, such as parks and city centers. Bringing fiber closer to end users isn’t the only challenge. With 80% of mobile traffic originating or terminating indoors, 5G wavelengths must penetrate physical barriers, such as walls. Corning has embraced this challenge, bringing its elegant 5G small cell solutions to market. In addition, the data centers of the future also rely on our fiber cabling solutions, and we are developing glass technologies that make fiber-to-chip switches, routers, and servers a reality.

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Pearl: The Smart Platform Connecting Experts and Users

Pearl: The Smart Platform Connecting Experts and Users

Pearl is a leading online professional Q&A consulting platform dedicated to providing users with high-quality expert answering services. As a knowledge platform that brings together experts from many fields, Pearl aims to provide users with accurate, detailed and reliable consultations, covering multiple professional fields such as law, medicine, finance, technology, education, etc. Whether seeking legal advice, medical consultation, financial planning or technical support, users can get authoritative answers from professionals through Pearl. On the Pearl platform, users can ask questions through simple operations, and the system will forward the questions to experts in related fields. Experts provide users with tailored answers and suggestions based on their rich professional knowledge and experience. The platform also allows users to view the qualifications and evaluations of experts to ensure reliable information and services. Pearl focuses on user experience, making the consultation process convenient and smooth through a clear interface and efficient Q&A process. The platform also provides a variety of communication methods, including text, voice and video consultations, to meet the different needs of users. In addition, Pearl is committed to protecting user privacy and ensuring the confidentiality and security of all consultation content. By continuously expanding expert resources and optimizing services, Pearl hopes to become a trustworthy professional Q&A platform to help users solve various professional problems and improve the quality of life and work.

Reading: 23 2019-03-27

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