Because space costs so much money and having multiple machines adds complexity and even more costs on top of that, there is always pressure to increase the density of the devices that provide compute, storage, and networking capacity in the datacenter. …
How much of a premium do you think that networking behemoth Cisco Systems plans to charge for its 25G Ethernet switches compared to their 10G predecessors? …
There is a misconception out there that the hyperscalers of the world are so rich that they always have the shiniest new toys in their datacenters. …
The “Tomahawk” switch chips from Broadcom, which are based on the new 25G Ethernet standard crafted by hyperscalers, are starting to appear in more and more devices. …
It looks like networking price war is getting set to break out in the largest datacenters of the world, and this is precisely what Google and Microsoft had in mind when they formed the 25G Ethernet consortium back in July 2014. …
The 25 Gb/sec Ethernet effort that was launched by Google and Microsoft a little more than a year ago, along with switch and adapter chip makers Broadcom and Mellanox Technologies and switch maker Arista Networks, continues to gather steam. …
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
One size does not fit all when it comes to merchant silicon chips that are used to build network devices for enterprise, hyperscale, and service provider customers. …
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