Broadcom Adds Another 25G/50G Piece for the Data Center
The 50G data center is within reach, Broadcom says.
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Broadcom's New Reality: Cuts, Competition, & Avago
After the $37B megamerger, Broadcom will have to deal with the realities of its new overlord Avago. -
Microsoft Azure Gives SDN a Hardware Assist
Software can't do everything, especially at 100G. -
Cisco Won't Blacklist White Box Switches
A Cisco white box is a possibility, John Chambers says. -
Megamerger Season Continues: Intel to Acquire Altera for $16.7B
The deal is done: Intel will buy Altera for $16.7 billion. -
P4 SDN Language Aims to Take SDN Beyond OpenFlow
Jennifer Rexford and Nick McKeown have kicked off what could be the next generation of SDN. -
Avago Puts Up $37B to Acquire Comms Giant Broadcom
A chip powerhouse is in the making, as brash, independent Broadcom has accepted a deal to join forces with Avago. -
3 Steps in Extreme Networks' Extreme Makeover
Layoffs of 18% and a white box attitude mark the new Extreme Networks. -
Cisco Still Loves ASICs, as EZchip Discovers the Hard Way
A chipmaker's stock plunges as Cisco returns to ASICs on a key platform. -
Broadcom's Tomahawk Chips Land on Pica8 Switches
Pica8 is the first to offer Broadcom's high-end switch chip on white box systems. -
Freescale Brings a Smarter White Box Switch to SDN
A new spin on the white box turns it into a host for SDN/NFV functions. -
Broadcom's Trident II Gets a VXLAN Booster
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Arista Likes Cavium as a Broadcom Alternative, Analysts Say
An analyst report envisions Arista ramping up with XPliant. -
Corsa Raises $16.5M for Its Programmable Data Plane
Corsa goes to production with its programmable data plane. -
Broadcom Expands High-End Switching Line
Broadcom's non-Trident switch chips add a few high-end options. -
Juniper Bursts Forth With New Routers, Switches, & Security
The PTX core routers and QFX switches get 100G power, and the SRX security line gets some new roles. -
Broadcom's OpenNSL Invites Open Source Development
Broadcom isn't going open source, but it's making its chips more open-source-friendly. -
Broadcom Sues Innovium, a Brand New Ethernet Startup
Ex-Broadcom employees allegedly made a 'flurried' effort to recruit colleagues to their startup. -
Wanted: Virtual Switching Without Compromise
Charlie Ashton outlines the pros and cons of the most common virtual switching solutions. Find out if it's possible to meet aggressive performance targets without compromising on critical system-level -
Corsa Claims Web Scale With Its SDN Data Plane
The startup shows its programmable data plane box can be a router that operates at the scale of core BGP routers, taking advantage of the OpenFlow 1.3 pipeline. -
Cisco's Insieme Buys Into an ASIC Memory Technology
A new bit of memory technology at Insieme will help continue to fuel Cisco's ASIC habit, not that that's necessarily a bad thing. -
Cavium Reveals XPliant's Programmable Switch Chip
Details of the XPliant Packet Architecture are out, and the chips do indeed present a programmable answer to Broadcom's Trident switch chips and their 90% market share. -
Tabula's '3D' FPGA Gets Into 100G Switches
What do you do when you have a radical FPGA that people are reluctant to design for? Do the design yourself and see if they'll take the hint. Tabula -
Intel Supports Geneve to Help Unify VXLAN & NVGRE
They said x86 chips could already support Geneve, and it looks like it's true. Just 7 months after the protocol was introduced to unify VXLAN and NVGRE, Intel has