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Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022

February 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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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After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System

October 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need to commercialize SONiC and lead the open networking revolution. …

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The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco

August 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are times when Cisco Systems, which has a strong presence in datacenter switching, routing, and serving as well as a representative showing in storage and software, is a bellwether for IT market spending and transitions going on in the IT space. …

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Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco

February 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It’s a great thing when an upstart supplier of hardware or software lands one of the hyperscalers or large public cloud builders on Earth as a customer. …

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The Arc That Networks On-Prem, Multi-Cloud, And The Edge

February 3, 2021 Devesh Garg and Murali Gandluru 0

We are in the midst of numerous foundational technological shifts in communications infrastructure that represents a generational opportunity for consumers, businesses, and providers alike. …

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Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing

February 2, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …

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Routing Boosts Switching As The Lines Between Them Blur

December 17, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

With the dividing line between switching and routing blurring among the hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is no wonder to us that switching is growing as Ethernet switch ASICs get more and more routing functions and true Ethernet routing has remained more or less flat in the past five years. …

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