At ISC 2025: DriveNets Talks Ethernet-based AI Networking

In this interview, Kikozashvili looks at DriveNets’ AI Ethernet solution that is used as a back-end network fabric for large GPU clusters and storage networking solution and how it supports the high-performance Ethernet alternative to InfiniBand.

Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 6 102.4 Tbps Switch

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 03, 2025 — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today that it is now shipping the Tomahawk 6 switch series, delivering what the company said is the first 102.4 Terabits/sec of switching capacity in a single chip – double the bandwidth of any Ethernet switch currently available on the market, according to Broadcom. […]

Seeking Ethernet Alternative to InfiniBand?  Start with Performance!

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical. While this is well known already, the impact your networking fabric performance has on parameters like job completion time can ….

Cornelis Launches CN5000: AI and HPC Scale-out Network

Wayne, PA June 03, 2025 – Cornelis Networks, an independent provider of high-performance networking solutions, today launched the CN5000 family, which the company said is the industry’s highest-performing end-to-end networking solution purpose-built to maximize AI and HPC performance, supporting deployments with up to 500,000 endpoints. Engineered to address compute underutilization and scaling challenges, CN5000 delivers […]

Cisco Says its Networking Will Bring on Quantum ‘Years Ahead of Current Timelines’

Comparing it to the impact on HPC that Beowulf clusters had in 1994, Cisco today said its new quantum networking technology will connect smaller quantum nodes and make “quantum ….

PROFILE: Aviz Networks Helps Manage and Monitor Spectrum-X Ethernet Networks for AI at Scale

San Jose-based Aviz Networks announced a suite of software-based management and monitoring tools that support NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform.

EuroHPC JU Issues Call for AI Factories Antennas

April 9, 2025 — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has issued a call for proposals for the selection of entities or consortia of entities to establish AI Factory Antennas linked to selected AI Factories across Europe. The AI Factory Antennas will work in coordination with the EuroHPC AI Factories and will be included in all […]

UALink Consortium Releases Ultra Accelerator Link 200G 1.0 Spec

Beaverton, OR – April 8, 2025 – The UALink Consortium today announced the ratification of the UALink 200G 1.0 Specification, which defines a low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect for communication between accelerators and switches in AI computing pods. The UALink 1.0 Specification enables 200G per lane scale-up connection for up to 1,024 accelerators within an AI computing pod, delivering the […]

Lightmatter Announces Passage L200, Co-Packaged Optics for AI

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter announced Passage L200, which the company said is the first 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) product. Designed to integrate with the latest XPU and switch silicon designs, Passage L200 supports unprecedented AI performance scaling by eliminating interconnect bandwidth bottlenecks, the company said. The L200 3D CPO family includes both […]

Lumen and Ciena Report 1.2 Tbps Wavelength Service from Denver to Dallas

Lumen Technologies and Ciena recently reported they have established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen’s Ultra-Low-Loss (ULL) fiber network,. This makes it the world’s longest 1.2 terabit non-regenerated signal, according ….