Hardware on Joseph Maxwellhttps://josephmaxwell.dev/tags/hardware/Recent content in Hardware on Joseph MaxwellHugoen&copy; 2026 Joseph MaxwellWed, 28 Oct 2026 02:53:53 +0000Optical Fault Isolation on the Datacenter Floor: Practical Habits for Clean Handoffshttps://josephmaxwell.dev/posts/optical-fault-isolation-on-the-datacenter-floor/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://josephmaxwell.dev/posts/optical-fault-isolation-on-the-datacenter-floor/<p>When you are working on the datacenter floor turning up TPU racks or troubleshooting a down link across Optical Circuit Switches (OCS), you don&rsquo;t control the network control plane. Your job as a technician is physical: figure out whether the problem is a dirty connector, a damaged patch cord in the rack, a bad transceiver, or an upstream trunk issue—and prove it quickly.</p>