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, Networking
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lumen guts channel staff in AI and data center pivot: report
Partner division sees heavy cuts while voice sales are shuttered going forward
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DriveNets joins scale-across space with 50-mile distributed GPU supercluster network
Cell-based load balancing and deep-buffer interconnect used to reduce congestion caused by AI traffic bursts
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NTT evolves distributed data centers with photonics drive
DoCoMo arm tethers Japan's regional hubs through IOWN-APN
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AWS injects AT&T into Interconnect connection cadre
The integration ties AT&T’s network into AWS Interconnect service
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NTT photonics push reaches across Japan with Equinix and Sakura Internet
NTT's telecom subsidiary to connect Hokkaido and Tokyo facilities with IOWN-APN
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AT&T Business extends 400G wavelength to more than a dozen metros
Those locations will now have access to AT&T’s wavelength edgeless handoff capabilities
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AI networking challenger DriveNets secures $410M to propel heterogeneous infra
Strategic backing from AMD sees vendor vying to scale AI fabric inventory and expand solutions designed to maximize utilization
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Equinix launches Fabric Geo Zones to enforce data sovereignty at the network layer
Colocation giant contends sovereignty ‘can’t be a setting inside a single cloud’
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Neoclouds driving intense bursts of massive data transfers: report
Backblaze fins AI traffic sees 'winter freeze' before Q1 rebound
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AI back-end networks to drive data center switch spending past $100B by 2030
Dell'Oro Group report sees Ethernet to prevail over InfiniBand in data center fabrics, even as proprietary technologies like UALink gain traction
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Neoclouds driving ‘new normal’ as AI workloads shift network behaviors
Data reveals AI-driven transfers are forcing a fundamental network stack rethink