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Cisco’s Hyperscale And Cloud AI Push Will Give It Enterprise Clout

June 12, 2025 Jeffrey Burt 0

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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The AI Datacenter Is Ravenous For 102.4 Tb/sec Ethernet Switch ASICs

June 3, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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Silicon One G200 Finally Drives Cisco’s AI Networking Business

May 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Everybody has been waiting to see the AI spike at Cisco Systems, and it just happened in its most current quarter. …

Future Proofing Inference Servers With PCI-Express Switches

March 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

At this point in the history of datacenter systems, there can be no higher praise than to be chosen by Nvidia as a component supplier for its AI systems. …

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Upstart Xsight Labs Raises Up The Programmable Switch Banner High

March 25, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field

February 26, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is extremely difficult to not be impatient for the next PCI-Express release to get into the field. …

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Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking

February 25, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption

February 12, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

While the hyperscalers and big cloud builders all are racing as fast as they can to build the biggest – and presumably the best – models, or collections of models, to win the AI race and become the Microsoft or Red Hat of commercial-grade models, the acquisition of AI hardware and envelope pushing on AI model architecture is not indicative of the adoption of AI by enterprises. …

Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU

February 11, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. …

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Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift

January 6, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …