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Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter

December 12, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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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A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips

June 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …

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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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Arista Gives Tomahawk 25G Ethernet Some XPliant Competition

December 13, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Processing for server compute has gotten more general purpose for the past two decades and is seeing resurgence in built-for-purpose chips. …

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Buffers Sometimes Beat Bandwidth For Networks

December 8, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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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Broadcom Strikes 100G Ethernet Harder With Tomahawk-II

October 31, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Because space costs so much money and having multiple machines adds complexity and even more costs on top of that, there is always pressure to increase the density of the devices that provide compute, storage, and networking capacity in the datacenter. …

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Broadcom Strikes 100G Ethernet Harder With Tomahawk-2

October 31, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Because space costs so much money and having multiple machines adds complexity and even more costs on top of that, there is always pressure to increase the density of the devices that provide compute, storage, and networking capacity in the datacenter. …

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Homegrown 25G Chips Help Cisco Hold The Switch Line

March 1, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

How much of a premium do you think that networking behemoth Cisco Systems plans to charge for its 25G Ethernet switches compared to their 10G predecessors? …

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Facebook Busts Out Of Homegrown Switches

December 2, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There is a misconception out there that the hyperscalers of the world are so rich that they always have the shiniest new toys in their datacenters. …

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Dell Goes Modular With Tomahawk 25G Switches

September 24, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The “Tomahawk” switch chips from Broadcom, which are based on the new 25G Ethernet standard crafted by hyperscalers, are starting to appear in more and more devices. …

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