What if you could manage your data center switches and routers the same way you manage your servers, and cut capital expense costs in the bargain? That’s the pitch for white-box networking, the move ...

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Facebook is taking its crusade for open networking to a broader battlefield, using its 16-port “Wedge” switch design as the basis of a new modular platform that can link together racks of servers ...

‘This is a topic that has been talked about for long time and is happening in other categories, but really hasn‘t happened where you de-couple the system from the hardware in networking,’ Extreme’s ...

Are you confused about the difference between a hub, a router, and a switch? You’re not alone! These networking devices may ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...

The solutions provider FS has launched the N8550-24CD8D, a next-generation 200G switch for use in AI-focused storage systems and data centres. The high performance switch has been designed to support ...

Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. But for ...

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An example of switches that Cisco makes for the data center market. (Cisco Image) A week after a report that Amazon Web Services was building its own bare-bones networking switch in a potential threat ...