SDxCentral Magazine - Issue 2
7-Eleven networks in Taiwan, Verizon’s CTO, OpenAI's networking, and AMD's head of networking tech
News - Data Center Interconnects
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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AMD, Intel back optical upstart pushing for denser photonics inside AI racks
Salience Labs banks on strategic silicon diversity for its optical circuit switches
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Celestica debuts liquid-cooled CPO switch for AI fabrics
DS6005 targets AI network efficiency through Broadcom switch silicon
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Credo pushes past copper limits with 1.6T optical cable
ZeroFlap ALC looks to bring copper-class reliability to AI scale-out networks
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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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Meta details next-gen AI infra: Custom multiterabit switches & unified fabrics
OCP provides a glimpse at the stack set to power Muse agent workloads
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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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Nvidia opens up Vera Rubin rack and tray designs to OCP
MGX 1.2 spec doubles down on liquid cooling
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Astera Labs to extend PCIe 7 for copper and optical connections
‘Industry first’ portfolio looks to bridge copper-to-optical divide to drive AI infra scaling
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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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Arista Networks unleashes ESUN-based rack-scale architecture targeting AI infra
Platform was designed with input from a phalanx of industry heavyweights
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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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Clockwork.io secures $31M to keep AI workloads resilient against infra failures
LinkedIn and WhiteFiber tapping software suite to prevent GPU downtime
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Mysterious Chinese silicon firm joins Lenovo, Naddod as SONiC members
Network ASIC developer Zhanwang joins optics vendor and PC giant as general members
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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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JEDEC unveils 'industry first’ silicon photonics standard to drive reliability
Baseline framework looks to light up AI infrastructure adoption
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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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Bell rings up Cisco for Canadian AI sovereignty
Canada compute gets sovereign boost
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AT&T follows rival Verizon in tapping Corning to satiate fiber fetish
New multi-year deal is valued at more than $3 billion
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GlobalFoundries bets big on photonics to meet soaring Chinese data center demand
Foundry giant balancing eastern infra buildout with U.S. expansion
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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’