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Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks

January 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …

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The 400G Ethernet Ramp About Radix As Much As Bandwidth

October 23, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on The 400G Ethernet Ramp About Radix As Much As Bandwidth

The appetite for network bandwidth is insatiable, as is that of compute and storage, but our enthusiasm to acquire larger and larger chunks of all of these things is curtailed significantly by cost. …

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Flattening Networks – And Budgets – With 400G Ethernet

January 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

If it were not for the insatiable bandwidth needs of the twenty major hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is safe to say that the innovation necessary to get Ethernet switching and routing up to 200 Gb/sec or 400 Gb/sec might not have been done at the fast pace that the industry as been able to pull off. …

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