SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - Distributed Data Centers
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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Ex-Juniper led startup launches hardware to extend private Ethernet beyond fiber footprints
PBC 100 Series aims to empower operators to reach off-net customers without new fiber
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Meta details next-gen AI infra: Custom multiterabit switches & unified fabrics
OCP provides a glimpse at the stack set to power Muse agent workloads
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SoftBank demos virtual hyperscaler to rival NTT networking standard
SoftBank's wide-area workload shift tech aims to sate AI compute demand regardless of power bottlenecks
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Equinix network VP Nico Strina departs for Capital One
Storied engineer counts stints at Twitch and Twilio on CV
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HPE’s Rami Rahim rallies robust $800M synergy roll around rocking market, integration results
Analysts see potential for financial windfall to fuel investment gains at the expense of rivals Cisco and Arista
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WhiteFiber debuts cross-data-center networking for distributed ‘superclusters’
DriveNets, Weka-supported drops amid increasing scale-across interest
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Huawei doubles down on AI networks with agentic automation and high-density switches
Chinese giant targets AI ‘compute factories’ and maturing near-packaged optics
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Reality is the real AI networking bottleneck
Will MEC play a role in opening up opportunities?
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Cisco missed the MRC memo, so an engineer built his own multiplane party
Cisco engineer DIYs an MRC emulator
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Verizon CEO Dan Schulman hints the carrier has edge inference, compute deals in place
And continues to self-educate on satellite-focused physics
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Ciena optics make waves down under in high-capacity networks for Telstra, Spark
WL6e coherents to support high-speed intercity and data center connectivity
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Ciena sees $1.6B in earnings with supply chain optimism
Vendor reports telecom bounceback and neocloud love in latest financials
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Broadcom slams AI silicon-fueled Q3, promises double-double on the way
And VMware continues to tick along
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Equinix looks to disrupt network-as-a-service with Fabric One offering
AWS, Google Cloud specs used to create open layer for managed distributed connectivity service
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DE-CIX expands Microsoft Azure connectivity with ExpressRoute Metro rollout
Direct link offering provides private georedundant access across some 24 cities
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ProLabs debuts ultra-long-haul transceivers for cross-continental connectivity
400G and 800G optics pack up to five-times more repeater hops, vendor claims
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SK Telecom launches new AI DC focused company, split from SK Broadband
SK Horizon launches with $2.2 billion in investment from KKR and IMM
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Zayo expands Corning partnership to secure long-term fiber supply for AI expansion
As company works toward 15,000 new route miles target by 2030
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Gramercy Networks unveils plans for low latency global financial backbone
Vendor targets trading firms with unified high-speed connectivity linking financial centers across three continents
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AI hyperscale and agentic demands helped Cisco smash revenue records
AI infrastructure push pays off with triple-digit hyperscale order growth
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Zayo enlists Nvidia to help build dedicated ‘AI corridors’ across the US
Fiber expansion project to connect high-demand markets and emerging data center hubs
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Arista smashes revenue records with $3B+; CEO bullish on supply chain overhaul
Multi-year purchase commitments triple as Arista tightens supply to push further into non-Nvidia accelerator networking
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AI data center and neocloud expansion fueling dark fiber demand: report
Zayo analysis reveals metro demand surged 20-times in ‘AI-driven’ hubs while new fiber sales tripled
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Verizon CEO boasts $1B Google dark fiber deal is tip of the AI opportunity iceberg, quiet on latest job cuts
A lot happening at Verizon
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T-Mobile US not seeing AI-derived traffic … yet
And it remains comfortable with FWA traffic loads
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Report: Gen3 Starlink satellites – a Starship-level upgrade?
Bigger, faster, and lower; SpaceX promises sea change improvement in third-generation satellites
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Oracle cloud hybrid-cloud service delivers databases across distributed footprint
Base Database Cloud@Customer brings Oracle's databases into customer data centers, branch locations, factories, and remote sites
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Botched network update behind 12-hour Google Cloud VMware Engine outage
Stretch cluster issues disrupted service in Sydney, Melbourne, and Frankfurt