Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and ...

While it has always been true that flatter networks and faster networks are possible with every speed bump on the Ethernet roadmap, the scale of networks has kept growing fast enough that the switch ...

Barefoot Networks released the second generation of its P4-programmable Tofino Ethernet switch ASIC family, called Tofino 2. The new switch uses 7 nanometer (nm) technology to process packets at 12.8 ...

Cavium and Pica8 are combining an ASIC with a network operating system (NOS) to support software defined networking (SDN). Cavium will put Pica8’s OpenFlow-based PicOS NOS on Cavium’s XPliant switch ...

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. We called this ...

Commercialization has started for network switches based on co-packaged optics (CPO), which are capable of routing signals at terabits per second speeds, but manufacturing challenges remain regarding ...

The FM4000 series 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch chips feature high-performance routing and enable data center networks to scale into the thousands of nodes. They are complete layer 2/3/4 IP ...