VMware axes distributed firewalls for smartNICs citing low demand: report
Pivot amid ambitions to focus on VCF efficiency stack
News - Ben Wodecki, SDxCentral
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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AI buildout to drive private LTE, 5G spending to nearly $85B by 2031
Nokia crowned top private network vendor, outpacing Ericsson and Huawei
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5G devices forecast to drive nearly 70% of global FWA CPE shipments
5G standalone and mmWave equipment set for strong growth despite memory shortage pressures
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Former Lambda, Groq alums secure $875M to build ‘memory-first’ AI inference chips
Neocloud veterans bank on low-power DRAM to power custom inference servers
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Nokia’s ‘Cognitive Operations’ platform brings AI, edge to mission-critical services
Launch expands Nokia’s industrial footprint from mining to defense
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Just three firewall vendors make Gartner's cut for market leaders
Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Check Point top a lopsided Magic Quadrant as AI security, PQC, and costs become key battlegrounds
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Wi-Fi 7 takes center stage as global access point shipments soar
Despite soaring WLAN shipments, ongoing component crunches threaten longer lead times
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Astera Labs unveils next-gen CXL controllers to accelerate agentic AI workloads
X-Series to aid offloading KV cache for AI inference
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Cornelis targets inference accelerator utilization with $205M expansion into scale-up
Startup challenges Nvidia and Broadcom with Active Compute Fabric
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Ciena launches VC fund to back next-gen networking startups
$200 million tranche optical interconnect startup
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NTT DoCoMo adds Nokia equipment to boost multivendor O-RAN efforts
Nationwide deployment set to take place after initial fireworks festival trial
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Broadcom faces escalating EU scrutiny over VMware licensing changes: report
Officials grill cloud providers over Broadcom’s VCSP and VCF changes
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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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Arista goes full Broadcom in VeloCloud license fight with TPx
Bankrupt TPx accuses Arista of weaponizing VeloCloud support
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Nvidia’s Groq deal facing DOJ probe amid regulator scrutiny into acqui-hires: report
Justice Department investigation joins FTC inquiry into potential de facto big tech mergers
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Huawei bets big on near-packaged optics with 7.2T module to fuel AI scaling
Vendor champions open NPO play over CPO for AI networks
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Qualcomm returns to data center market with multigeneration AWS AI deal
Custom silicon and optics part of strategic partnership
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GSMA urges regulators to back upper 6 GHz spectrum for next-gen networks
With more than 60 operators and equipment vendors united, trade body presses for prioritization for wide-scale deployments
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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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Nvidia brings AI data center networking to the home with ‘personal AI router’
Open source tool pools compute power for agentic AI tasks across interconnected Windows, MacOS, and Linux devices
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MIT scientists crack the code for flexible wafer-scale photonics
Bendy bonding process could transform wearables … and data center rack designs
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Rakuten Symphony cloud RAN tech powers Tawal’s multi-operator indoor network
Neutral-host network deployed at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Jeddah
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HPE caps stellar Q3 with Oracle ‘gigawatt scale’ networking deal
Hyperscaler and long-time Juniper user keeps faith, but backlog headaches linger on
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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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Ribbon updates infra suite to help utilities bridge legacy and modern networks
Vendor tips AI automation and quantum-safe security to ease utility network modernization