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Homegrown 25G Chips Help Cisco Hold The Switch Line

March 1, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on 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

December 2, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on 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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Arista Wields Tomahawks In 25G Ethernet Price War

September 14, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on 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. …

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