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Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With “Tomahawk 5”

August 16, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

If there is anything that hyperscalers and cloud builders value more than anything else, it is regularity and predictability. …

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Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter

December 12, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter

If hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, enterprises, and both OEMs and ODMs like one thing, it is a steady drumbeat of technology enhancements to drive their datacenters forward. …

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Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises

June 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server platforms. …

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Buffers Sometimes Beat Bandwidth For Networks

December 8, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Buffers Sometimes Beat Bandwidth For Networks

Just like every kind of compute job cannot be handled by a single type of microprocessor, the diversity of networking tasks in the datacenters of the world require a variety of different switch and router ASICs to best manage those tasks. …

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