In contrast, a standard eight-port KVM switch costs $1,000 to $2,000 ... over the long run by simplifying the administration of server farms with a single, easy-to-manage system.

That's the selling point of Underground Secure Data Center Operations (USDCO), a server farm located in an abandoned ... as USDCO so they can seamlessly switch to the hosted servers if disaster ...

Facebook’s new homebrewed modular switch brings together connections to lots of Facebook-built Wedge switches, which in turn connect to servers sitting in racks inside Facebook’s server farms.