Ahead of Hot Chips 2025, NVIDIA today announced Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, a scale-across technology for combining multiple, distributed data centers into “unified, giga-scale AI super-factories.”
Terabit Ethernet: Rambus Launches Multi-Channel Engine MACsec-IP-364 (+363)
August 22, 2025 by
Aug. 21, 2025 — Rambus has introduced the Multi-Channel Engine MACsec-IP-364 (+363), built for next-generation Ethernet. The company said it delivers full line-rate MACsec and optional IPsec support for 1.6T and 3.2T Ethernet ports, offering a scalable and configurable solution for securing high-speed data traffic. Capabilities Full Line-Rate Throughput: Supports 1.6T in 3nm and 3.2T […]
Teramount Raises $50M for Optical Connectivity from AMD, Hitachi, Samsung, Koch
July 30, 2025 by
Jerusalem, July 29, 2025 — Teramount, a company focused on fiber-to-chip interconnect solutions, announced it has raised $50 million in financing led by new investor Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT). Existing investors Grove Ventures and several new strategic investors, including AMD Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund and Wistron, joined the round. To meet AI’s escalating […]
NNSA Deploys Cornelis CN5000 Fabric for ‘Lynx’ Cluster at Livermore
July 24, 2025 by
Cornelis Networks announced its CN5000 is being deployed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration to power the 952-node “Lynx” cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Why Is Drivenet’s Fabric Scheduled Ethernet the Best InfiniBand Alternative?
July 23, 2025 by
[SPONSORED GUEST CONTENT] Scheduled Ethernet is emerging as a viable alternative to InfiniBand for AI networking. Why? Because of its ability to offer comparable performance but with greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
AI Forcing New Technology for Data Center Network Interconnectivity
July 10, 2025 by
“…. a new era of unpredictable traffic growth is upon us, driven by the emergence – and soon, dominance – of artificial intelligence. A recent survey found that data center ….”
HPE Closes $13.4B Acquisition of Juniper Networks
July 2, 2025 by
HPE today announced the sucessful completion of its acquisition of AI-native networks company Juniper Networks, Inc., initiailly announced in April of last year. HPE said the transaction doubles the size of the their networking business ….
Re-Engineering Ethernet for AI Fabric
June 24, 2025 by
Ethernet wasn’t built with AI in mind. While cost-effective and ubiquitous, its best-effort, packet-based nature creates challenges in AI clusters… But fabric-scheduled Ethernet transforms Ethernet into a predictable, lossless, scalable fabric – ideal for AI. It uses cell spraying and virtual output queuing ….
At ISC 2025: DriveNets Talks Ethernet-based AI Networking
June 18, 2025 by
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
June 4, 2025 by
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. […]
