While it has always been true that flatter networks and faster networks are possible with every speed bump on the Ethernet roadmap, the scale of networks has kept growing fast enough that the switch ASIC makers and the switch makers have been able to make it up in volume and keep the switch business growing. …
Everybody has been waiting to see the AI spike at Cisco Systems, and it just happened in its most current quarter. …
There has been no shortage of turmoil in the global economy thanks to war – trade and otherwise – and skirmish and terror of various kinds and severity. …
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. …
The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. …
When it comes to networking, the rules around here at The Next Platform are simple. …
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. …
In many ways, Arista Networks still behaves like a startup even though it was founded twenty years ago, rollout out its first products a little more than a decade and a half ago, went public a decade ago, and now as over 10,000 customers and over 100 million Ethernet ports sold that generated a cumulative $32 billion in revenues for hardware, software, and support. …
The original design manufacturers, or ODMs, as well as the portions of the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, that act like ODMs in that they create custom machines for hyperscalers and cloud builders and sell that at high volume and low margin, have long since taken over the server market. …
Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. …
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