SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - The Networking Channel, Networking
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
Featured
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Cisco-backed chiplet interconnect upstart in line for acquisition: report
Early talks with Arm led to nothing, but investors reportedly informed of purchase
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Man behind Netflix’s data center network cut in brutal layoffs
6% of its global workforce were slashed, including architects and software engineers
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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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Nvidia adds Google Falcon support to meet growing transport diversity demands
Falcon swoops in to join MRC
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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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Lambda poaches AWS director to lead software and AI networking engineering
Fiachra Groarke joins neocloud given early access to Nvidia CPO switches
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HPE Networking chief touts channel partner opportunity, teases 'lead-to-cash' program
Rami Rahim sees initial benefit for campus and branch with data center networking to follow
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Cisco’s quantum networking quest gains controller, compiler abstraction layer
The 'research prototypes' target quantum's tangled entanglements
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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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HPE Networking chief links $1.2B Vultr neocloud win to ‘revenue synergy’ opportunity
The deal is HPE's first tied to its AMD Helios AI Rack system
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Nvidia’s data center networking portfolio hit by claims of ‘willful’ patent infringement
Non-practicing entity uses supply chain and neocloud links to bring Texas lawsuit
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Optical interconnect startup CScale emerges from stealth with investments from Nvidia, Intel
Californian startup raised $145m in Series C funding round
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Comcast makes its fiber network one big sensor
Sensing technology analyzes vibrations to form early warning system
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OpenAI seeks technician to lead network buildout for unidentified 'partner' campus at Stargate Abilene
Successful candidate would also work on networks for ‘future OpenAI data center projects’
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Quantum link shares deployed fiber with 400G Ethernet and 5G
Duke and University of Maryland experiment suggests memory-based quantum networks may not require dedicated dark fiber
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Global memory stocks down to just one week’s supply as drought digs in until 2028
Bad news, more bad news as Smith's chief trading officer gives AI storage and compute a reality check
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GSMA predicts 2.4 billion 6G connections by 2035, 850 exabyte network traffic monthly
Telecom group stresses figure is a milestone, not end point, and that 5G ain't going anywhere anytime soon
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Flag to deploy Ciena's Waveserver platform on Echo subsea cable
This will enable Flag to launch new 400GbE and 800GbE services along the route
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Coherent hedges its optics bets, backs CPO and NPO alike
Nvidia-backed vendor plays both sides of the optics war with one photonics stack to rule them all
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HPE hotel refit touts AI benefits with Aruba core
Aethos London Shoreditch gives vendor another British win and more drive for HPE's self-driving network push
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Lumen launches Intelligent Internet for scalable enterprise experience
Solution designed to help enterprises move data at AI speeds
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NetBrain to let engineers customize their own agents to accelerate network remediation
Latest NetOps offering doubles down on agentic automation
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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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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