Cumulus, Midokura Team Up On Open Networks
There is more than one way to skin the software-defined network cat, and Midokura and Cumulus Networks are teaming up to provide an alternative to various OpenFlow implementations as ...Full Article
Transforming Datacenters With 800 Gbps MXC Fiber Cables
Intel and several key partners are gearing up to release 800 Gbps optical cables, designed with new MXC connector technology, to support 21st century communications. The networking cables could ...Full Article
PCI Express Switching Takes On Ethernet, InfiniBand
Ethernet, InfiniBand, and the handful of high-speed, low-latency interconnects that have been designed for supercomputers and large shared memory systems are going to soon have a new rival: PCI-Express ...Full Article
IBM Gives ‘Cheap’ Fiber Cables New Lease on Life
As computers get faster and data gets bigger, it is essential that data transfer speeds keep up so networks don't become the bottleneck. This is true whether the transfer ...Full Article
Laser Beams Speed Financial Trading
In today's capital markets, whoever can send and receive real-time market data the fastest has a tremendous advantage. The incentive to execute financial transactions ahead of the competition means ...Full Article
Startup Slashes Latencies With Server-Switch Hybrid
For some workloads, the most important thing is cutting out as much latency as possible from the hardware and software stack. For many of those same latency-sensitive customers, simplifying ...Full Article
Hardware Matters, But Software Also Drives Switch Choices
Breaking into the content caching and delivery market against industry juggernaut Akamai Technologies is about as easy as breaking into the datacenter networking space against Cisco Systems. But, CDN ...Full Article
Dell Bares Switch Metal To Other Network Operating Systems
When you look at a switch, you are looking at the vestiges of a proprietary past that many of the largest companies in the world want to do away ...Full Article
Smoother Waters Ahead For Mellanox After Choppy 2013
The major markets that Mellanox Technologies sells its switch chips, switches, and server adapter cards into are inherently choppy and often driven by very large deals in its sales ...Full Article
AMD, Applied Micro Take Fabric Weaving 101 For ARM Server Chips
AMD and Applied Micro, the two biggest and most vocal of the remaining ARM server chip makers now that upstart Calxeda has shut down, have taken up weaving. Both ...Full Article
