
Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs
At some point, Moore’s Law increases in performance are going to hit a wall when it comes to datacenter networks. …
At some point, Moore’s Law increases in performance are going to hit a wall when it comes to datacenter networks. …
Stanford University doesn’t own software defined networking. But it sure does feel that way some days. …
In the past five years or so, we have had a remarkably good – and predictable – run of increases in aggregate switching bandwidth out of the major ASIC suppliers, and it has been a boon that underpins the massive expansion in datacenters among the hyperscalers. …
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now, but Intel has quietly dropped its 200 Gb/sec Omni-Path networking from its roadmaps and will be using other technology for interconnects going forward. …
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
Barefoot Networks is on a mission, and it is a simple one: To give datacenter switches the same kind of openness and programmability that X86 servers have enjoyed for decades in the datacenter. …
The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …
If Andy Bechtolsheim, the chief technology officer at datacenter switching upstart Arista Networks, wanted to design ASICs to try to take a bigger piece of the switch pie – or more precisely, thought that this was a good idea at all – rest assured, Arista would be spending money engineering its own chips and fighting for capacity at the four remaining foundries that have advanced processes. …
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Breaking into the switch market is not an easy task, whether you are talking about providing whole switches or just the chips that drive them. …
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