Mystery Google device appears in small-town Iowa

By Thom Holwerda, submitted by MOS6510 on 2012-09-10 16:20:00

"Google calls itself one of the world's largest hardware makers. For the past 10 years, the web giant has designed much of the gear driving the massive data centers that underpin its web empire, but it treats the particulars of this hardware operation as the most important of trade secrets. That's why the Pluto Switch is so intriguing." It's easy to forget large web companies like Google actually design and build their own hardware.

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