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Cisco Takes On Broadcom, Nvidia For Fat AI Datacenter Interconnects

October 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Wide area networks and datacenter interconnects, or DCIs, as we have known them for the past decade or so are nowhere beefy enough or fast enough to take on the job of scaling AI training workloads across multiple datacenters. …

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Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks?

January 9, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …

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Startup Sees Potential for Long-Distance RDMA on Horizon

January 10, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off on Startup Sees Potential for Long-Distance RDMA on Horizon

Sharing data via remote direct memory access (RDMA) has typically been a local affair, restricted to a single server or tightly bound clusters of servers. …

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Lessons Learned From Facebook’s Split Network Backbone

May 2, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Lessons Learned From Facebook’s Split Network Backbone

Distributed applications, whether they are containerized or not, have a lot of benefits when it comes to modularity and scale. …

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