{"id":2965,"date":"2018-01-23T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:26:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:46:02","slug":"microsoft-azure-and-microsoft-research-take-giant-step-towards-eliminating-network-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/telecommunications\/2018\/01\/23\/microsoft-azure-and-microsoft-research-take-giant-step-towards-eliminating-network-downtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research take giant step towards eliminating network downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 26<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;ACM Annual Symposium on Operating Systems and Principles, better known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/microsoft-research-symposium-on-operating-systems-principles-sosp-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOSP 2017<\/a>, my colleagues described a new technology called&nbsp;<a 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