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Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching

October 17, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

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Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core

September 8, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …

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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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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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