The rise of the merchant silicon suppliers for datacenter networking and routing, which was spearheaded by Broadcom with chips and Arista Networks with switches, was not a foregone conclusion. …
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …
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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