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800G: The Upgrade That Exposes Everything

A $350 optic turned into an $18,000 problem. Not because the optic failed — because nobody cleaned the connector.

Rene Fichtmueller / 2026-04-05 / ~1 min read

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Rene Fichtmueller

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20+ years building and breaking networks. Optical transport, peering, data center infrastructure. Writing about the things that go wrong at 2AM — and how to prevent them.

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