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A Bumper Crop Of Ethernet Switches Harvested In Q4
With each passing year, the phrase “The network is the computer,” coined in 1984 by John Gage, director of research and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, becomes more and more true. …
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Luminaries Argue For The Interconnect We Could Have Already Had
Here is an old saw that we bring out of the toolbox every now and then, and we use it just enough so it has never really gotten rusty and it can cut through a lot of crap to make a point: The datacenter, and perhaps all clients, would have been better off if InfiniBand had just become the ubiquitous I/O switched fabric standard it was designed to be back in the late 1990s. …
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Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …
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Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise
There are exceptions to every rule, but in general, when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago. …
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Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It
If there is a recession underway – and we are not convinced that there is even a little bit – then the Ethernet switch market did not get the memo. …
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Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High
A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …
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Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet
The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. …
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Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
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Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With “Tomahawk 5”
If there is anything that hyperscalers and cloud builders value more than anything else, it is regularity and predictability. …
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The Faster The Switch, The Cheaper Bit Flits
It may have taken a while for the transition to 200 Gb/sec and 400 Gb/sec networking to take off in the datacenter, but this higher gear to switching is finally kicking in and delivering unprecedented bang for the buck in networks, and in fairly short order at least compared to sluggish pace that 100 Gb/sec Ethernet took getting into the datacenter. …