NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 here in San Jose has showcased significant product innovation and a clear roadmap from Blackwell to Rubin, highlighting a yearly cadence of new product announcements. Not to be missed were Quantum (InfiniBand) and Spectrum (Ethernet) CPO announcements. For networking, GTC 2025 focused on scaleout CPO with InfiniBand… Read More »Views from GTC 2025
Network software company Arrcus Networks made several important announcements at the Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC25) show in Barcelona this week. We visited the company several times over the days we were at the show to learn as much as possible about the various announcements. The company announced partnerships with… Read More »Arrcus Announces NVIDIA and Broadcom Integrations at MWC25
Strong NVIDIA Momentum in Networking for AI in 2024, Led by NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, Also Surging NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Sales 2024 was an exciting year for AI. Overall spending on AI equipment in the data center blew past $200B in 2024 as larger Hyperscalers, new cloud startups, sovereigns, and pretty… Read More »Networking for AI represents Huge and Growing Part of DC CAPEX as Scale-up, Scale-out; Front-end Networks Support the Surge in Demand for AI Applications
Usually, Telecom and wireless RAN are the main topics for the MWC-Las Vegas show, but at this year’s show, what caught our eye was indoor cellular, satellite, and data center networking. It was surprising that telecom heavyweights like Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, and Cisco did not attend. But we love going… Read More »MWC Las Vegas Themes: Indoor Cellular, Satellite and Data Center
Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, DriveNets and NVIDIA All Message the Growing Importance of Ethernet Products The past two months were busy for AI Ethernet Providers, with announcements showcasing new products and providing historical revenue growth forecasts. Overall, the announcements highlight the long-term growth of AI Networking into a $30+B market by… Read More »Massive June-July 2024 Announcement Slate Pushes Ethernet into Dominant Position in AI Networking
Customers Will Demand Near Real Time Performance When Using LLMs There is a lot of confusion around Inference and LLMs and their impact on networking. Users expect real-time answers similar to what they get using search platforms. However, LLMs do not produce results in the same way as search platforms… Read More »Interconnect Needs for LLM Inference to Drive Networking Bandwidth
We attended primarily the Atmosphere Track of the Discover partner conference in Las Vegas, where HPE Aruba Networking announced significant new developments. Among the new technology announcements were Private 5G radios, Observability-related integrations, IoT Gateway enhancements, and SASE. Of course, we attended HPE CEO Antonio Neri’s keynote at the Las… Read More »HPE Discover Atmosphere 2024: AI Networking Emerges
Both InfiniBand and Ethernet to Achieve Strong Growth From 2023 Levels Incline Village, Nevada – June 4, 2024 – A newly released report by 650 Group, a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center, and cloud markets, indicates that the Data Center AI Networking market is expected to… Read More »Data Center AI Networking to Surge to Nearly $20B in 2025, According to 650 Group
Cloud Operators Continue to Push for Silicon Diversity as We Enter the 51.2 Tbps Switch Era As we engaged with Cloud Operators over the past two quarters, the shift away from COVID-19 supply constraints and toward next-generation build-outs became apparent in a changing of priorities. In our 4Q reports, one… Read More »AI/ML Networking Driving Need for Silicon Diversity
Today, NVIDIA announced its 5G Data Centers With Gen AI with an anchor customer, Japanese mobile operator SoftBank. NVIDIA says its rollouts start in late 2023, which is right around the corner in telecom terms; we are not sure exactly when SoftBank plans to roll it out. NVIDIA claims its… Read More »NVIDIA 5G Data Center Announcements
