SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - Open Networking Standards, Networking
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Ultra Ethernet Consortium releases Version 1.1 to boost scale-up networking and congestion control
Standard update targets AI network bottlenecks
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Cisco nabs Nvidia for pluggable power up, snuggles closer to SONiC
More power out and less power consumption
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Meta builds custom 'IceCube' AI network switch using Nvidia's Spectrum-6 ASICs
Switch pairs FBOSS OS with 102T chip for 100K+ GPU clusters
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Network switches get simple with Meta, Microsoft-backed open standard
OCP introduces OSPA
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Nvidia-backed Upscale unveils fabric that lets engineers break vendor lock-in and mix rival XPUs
Upscale’s Token Fabric to create network bridge for the dream of heterogeneous computing
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Broadcom comes out fighting in Nvidia AI networking race
EMEA network chief touts Ethernet lead; lauds OpenAI protocol as networking standard for scale-up and out
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SDxCentral Magazine out now: How 7-Eleven networks Taiwan together
Understand the network behind Taiwan’s own backbone
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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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Meta’s custom transport protocol embraces packet chaos to boost AI throughput
MetaRoCE reimagines Ethernet data transfers to fix network latency at AI scale
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Cerebras unveils low latency AI workload speed demon rack-scale platform
CS-4 promises 30-times faster AI workloads compared to GPU platforms with latency as low as two milliseconds
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Industry giants unite to define open co-packaged optics for next-gen AI infrastructure
Lightmatter and OCP work to standardize silicon photonic interconnects for future AI cluster backbones
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Nokia eyes Ethernet evolution in OpenAI-developed MRC protocol
Network giant touts potential of OpenAI’s distributed AI training transport
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Bull, Kalray unite to develop Ultra Ethernet AI interconnects
Sovereignty-centric team up to challenge non-European AI networking dominance
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Cisco-backed Qunnect attracts quad of quantum-focused ABQ-Net tenants
The four will connect to Qunnect's New Mexico-based open-access quantum network
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Cisco overhauling Talent Bridge to serve ‘partner needs,’ cut ‘hiring noise’
These updates include alignment of candidate skills with needed roles
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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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HPE’s Slingshot tops supercomputer interconnects, but China steals the show
China crashed the TOP500 list with a mystery interconnect powering a 2.2 exaflop CPU-only monster
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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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AWS adopts random graph network architecture as default cloud fabric
Resilient Network Graphs architecture cuts router counts by 69% while reducing network power consumption by 40%
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Ethernet dominates AI networking as switch sales double, but InfiniBand rebounds
Nvidia Vera Rubin shipments cause InfiniBand Sales to triple while 800G upgrades drive sales surges
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AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon eye satellite-focused spectrum-pooling JV
Details remain light
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Cisco targets broadcasters with promise of one fabric to rule them all
Networking giant targets live broadcast with MXL push
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Stelia AI taps Nokia for secure connectivity across distributed enterprise AI environments
Nokia’s open networking combines with Stelia’s AI OS to create high-throughput, low-latency data movement across distributed siloes
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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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VMware embraces Intel for vRAN integration
The goal is to build a repeatable platform that will foster a healthier ecosystem for virtualized and open radio access networks