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Attacking Interconnects And Networks Across All Scales
There are two competing forces in IT, and they are at play during the GenAI era as much as they have ever been during prior eras in the datacenter. …
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Cisco Takes On Broadcom, Nvidia For Fat AI Datacenter Interconnects
Wide area networks and datacenter interconnects, or DCIs, as we have known them for the past decade or so are nowhere beefy enough or fast enough to take on the job of scaling AI training workloads across multiple datacenters. …
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Cisco’s Outshift Incubator Sends Agentic AI Protocol To The Linux Foundation
AI agents bring with them the promise of being able to autonomously solve complex tasks put before them, from finding and analyzing the necessary data, choosing tools, and making decisions without human intervention to learning from their mistakes and adapting to changes. …
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Silicon One: Many Cisco Chips With One Architecture Chasing Many AI Workloads
With AI being the biggest change in IT infrastructure since the Dot Com boom, it was no surprise that at the annual Cisco Live event last month in San Diego, the focus was on AI – and particularly agentic AI – and how the networking giant differentiates itself from other infrastructure vendors when it comes to the emerging technology. …
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Nvidia Passes Cisco And Rivals Arista In Datacenter Ethernet Sales
There is not one Ethernet business, but several, and now, with the evolution of Ethernet switches for back-end AI cluster networks, there is a new one that has the possibility to dominate revenues and profits. …
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Cisco’s Hyperscale And Cloud AI Push Will Give It Enterprise Clout
Much of the business that Cisco Systems and others have been doing in the AI infrastructure field since OpenAI lit the generative AI fuse with ChatGPT in November 2022 has been deploying hardware and software with the hyperscalers, a lucrative business that led company executives to promise to sell as much as $1 billion in back-end network technology by the end of its fiscal year and then to blow past that a quarter early. …
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Silicon One G200 Finally Drives Cisco’s AI Networking Business
Everybody has been waiting to see the AI spike at Cisco Systems, and it just happened in its most current quarter. …
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Cisco Pulls Together A Quantum Network Architecture
For decades, discussions around quantum computing has felt similar to family driving vacations, with someone in the back seat constantly asking “are we there yet?” …
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AI Reshapes The Ethernet Datacenter Switch Market
Two decades ago, the hyperscalers and cloud builders started remaking the Ethernet switch market in the datacenter in their own image, and now it looks like AI training and inference is going to morph Ethernet switching in the datacenter once again. …
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Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking
UPDATED Networking giant Cisco Systems and AI platform provider Nvidia have hammered out a deal to mix and match each other’s technologies to create a broader set of AI networking options for their respective and – importantly, prospective – customers. …