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A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Arista Wields Tomahawks In 25G Ethernet Price War
It looks like networking price war is getting set to break out in the largest datacenters of the world, and this is precisely what Google and Microsoft had in mind when they formed the 25G Ethernet consortium back in July 2014. …