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Broadcom has begun volume shipments of its Tomahawk 5 family of Ethernet switch/router chips. Tomahawk 5 offers 51.2 Tbps of switching capacity, twice that of any other switch on the market. The high radix of Tomahawk 5 enables single-hop connectivity between 256 high-performance AI/ML accelerators, each having 200Gbps of network bandwidth. Broadcom says Tomahawk 5’s […]
DigitalBridge and IFM Investors completed their previously-announced acquisition of Switch, which operates a series of high-performance, SuperNAP co-location data centers. All outstanding common shares of Switch (NYSE: SWCH) were acquired for $34.25 per share in cash, or approximately $11 billion, including the repayment of outstanding debt. “We are excited to embark on the next chapter […]
Juniper Networks expanded its multivendor data center automation and assurance platform with the introduction of Apstra Freeform, a tool to help manage and automate data center operations regardless of topology and protocols used. Freeform builds upon Apstra’s intent-based networking capabilities for full lifecycle data center management across a range of data center topologies and vendors, […]
Broadcom announced shipment of its Trident 4C Ethernet switch ASIC, a 12.8 terabits/second security switch capable of analyzing all traffic at line rate. Broadcom said its new switching ASIC is able to inspect 100 percent of the traffic, even at the extreme bandwidths found in network cores. Trident 4C integrates a purpose-built analytics engine capable […]
Broadcom has begun customer shipments of its StrataXG Tomahawk 5 switch series, providing 51.2 Tbps of Ethernet switching capacity in a single, monolithic chip. “Delivering the world’s first 51.2 Tbps switch two years after we released Tomahawk 4, the industry’s first 25 Tbps switch, is a testament to the outstanding execution and innovation by the […]
Arista Networks reported Q2 revenue of $1.052 billion, an increase of 20.0% compared to the first quarter of 2022, and an increase of 48.7% from the second quarter of 2021. GAAP gross margin was 61.2%, compared to GAAP gross margin of 63.1% in the first quarter of 2022 and 64.2% in the second quarter of […]
DigitalBridge Group agreed to acquire Switch, a leading colocation data center operator, for $34.25 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $11 billion, including the assumption of debt. Switch, which was founded in 2000, operates SuperNAP data center campuses in Las Vegas, Reno, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The company touts its high-resiliecy and […]
Marvell has more than doubled its growth year-over-year (YOY) in cloud data center Ethernet switch port shipments, based on 650 Group’s quarterly switch report for Q4’21 released last month. The company said its share of the overall data center switch market grew from 6% to 10% YOY and specifically within the 50G SerDes segment of […]
Interface Masters Technologies introduced a network switch based on the Intel Tofino 2 P4-programmable switch fabric (12.8Tb) and a Dual AMD EPYC 2 Milan 64-core offload processors. “Interface Masters is an OEM hardware solutions provider. Our new Tahoe 2664-ZR1 is entirely designed and manufactured in the USA – our hardware is never compromised and always […]
Arista Networks reported Q4 2021 revenue of $824.5 million, an increase of 10.1% compared to the third quarter of 2021, and an increase of 27.1% from the fourth quarter of 2020. Non-GAAP gross margin was 64.3%. Non-GAAP net income was $262.4 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $197.7 million, […]
Marvell Technology agreed to acquire Innovium, a start-up offering switching silicon for cloud and edge data centers, in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.1 billion. Innovium, which is based in San Jose, California, offers high-performance switching silicon solutions for cloud and edge data centers. The company was founded in 2014 and has approximately 230 employees. […]
Switch agreed to acquire Data Foundry, a carrier-neutral colocation provider with data centers in Austin and Houston, for $420 million in an all cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to close by mid-2021, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval. The purchase price of $420 million represents approximately 19x estimated 2021 […]
Xsight Labs, a fabless semiconductor startup based in Tel Aviv, announced the closing of its Series D funding. The round was led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management and was joined by new investor Fidelity Management & Research Company. Existing investors Battery Ventures, Intel Capital, M12 Microsoft’s Venture Fund and Xilinx, increased their investments. […]
Innovium, a start-up offering high-performance switching silicon, shipped over one million 400G TERALYNX switch silicon ports in 2020. The company said it is seeing a rapid ramp of 400G connectivity by top cloud customers using its TERALYNX based switches. “2020 was a great year for Innovium. Demand for bandwidth accelerated across all cloud data centers […]
SiFive and Innovium, announced a collaboration to drive faster innovation in switch silicon solutions. SiFive specializes in RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions. Innovium is known for its networking switch silicon for cloud and edge data centers. The companies are collaborating on new designs that incorporate SiFive E2-Series processor cores to extend Innovium’s programmable switch […]
AT&T has contributed its specifications for a Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) white box architecture to the Open Compute Project (OCP). The contributed design aims to define a standard set of configurable building blocks to construct service provider-class routers, ranging from single line card systems, a.k.a. “pizza boxes,” to large, disaggregated chassis clusters. AT&T said it […]
Arrcus, a start-up that offers a hardware-agnostic network operating system for white boxes switches, announced multiple high-density 100GbE and 400GbE routing solutions for hyperscale cloud, edge, and 5G networks. The company says its ArcOS software architecture has the foundational attributes to scale-out to an open aggregated routing solution, enabling operators to design, deploy, operationalize, and […]
Innovium confirmed that its TERALYNX switch silicon is powering the Cisco Nexus 3408-S and 3432D-S data center switches. The switches deliver telemetry, low-latency and highest port radix with flexibility for 10G – 400G connectivity. The switches were demonstrated at this week’s Cisco Live! event at the San Diego Convention Center. “Private and public cloud datacenters […]
