SONIC- start up Aviz of San Jose announced this week its latest funding round, now reaching $10M, to work to accelerate customer momentum for its multi-vendor, GenAI-based networking stack along with adoption of SONiC based open networking CEO Vishal Shukla quoted in SDX Central:“Our DNA is community-first. We want to… Read More »Aviz Extends Funding to $10M with Cisco Investments, Accton, and Wistron
At Cisco’s Partner Conference, it announced a new Emphasis on Full Stack Observability (FSO), Security, End-to-End/Solutions selling, IoT/Industrial, SMB, MSP, Sustainability/Take-Back, and. Additionally, Cisco enhanced its Partner Experience Platform (PXP) to enable partners to optimize their practice and drive growth, emphasizing recurring revenue. We see this conference as a clear… Read More »Cisco’s Partner Conference Emphasizes Observability, Security, SMB and MSP
DriveNets Highlights AI/ML Network Performance at a High Scale, with Broadcom’s Jericho 2C+ and Jericho 3-AI. DriveNets has announced that its Network Cloud-AI software, supporting Broadcom’s Jericho 3-AI-based white boxes and Ramon 3 chipset, is now available for order and also revealed some very impressive performance results. One of the… Read More »Choosing InfiniBand or Ethernet? Ethernet-based AI Networking to grow at over 100% CAGR
Big developments for enterprise edge cloud here. 650 Group’s quarterly coverage of the fast growing adoption of the SONiC operating system as part of the data center market over the past two years has pointed to big industry developments like this: Aviz Networks and Cisco making it easier for customers… Read More »Aviz and Cisco Come Together with SONiC
Refresh the Old to Free Up Power, Cold Plate, and Immersion Cooling, and AI takes Center Stage OCP 2023 in Santa Clara was a great show. Let’s start with the packed keynotes, which all discussed what we will do to solve the power problem, except Google. We will need more… Read More »OCP 2023 -It’s a Wrap: Here Are The Key Highlights From a Cool Show
Global Observability Market Expected to Approach $15B in 2027 The last few months have been hectic for the Observability market. Cisco announced the company’s plans to purchase Splunk for $28B, with the deal expected to close in CY 2024. New Relic announced its plan to be acquired by Francisco Partners… Read More »Observability Makes Major Moves with Cisco Announcing Plans to Acquire Splunk
Cisco Systems held its Packet Optical Network Conference (PONC) Conference in Texas this week. PONC is primarily a customer and reseller-related conference where Cisco shares its latest innovations and some of its customers’ newest network designs. Cisco shared that on a year-to-date basis, it had four times more Routed Optical… Read More »Cisco PONC Conference – Reaching Critical Mass
New Products Include Purpose Built FPcx NPU (Routing Silicon), 7730 SXR Routers, SR Linux Nokia made a big splash of announcements at the company’s SReXperts Americas 2023 earlier this month. True to the company’s heritage, we got a slew of introductions from a new purpose-built NPU (Routing ASIC) to new… Read More »Product Rich Announcements at Nokia’s SReXperts Americas 2023
Earlier this year, AST SpaceMobile completed a 4G call but on September 8, it completed a 5G call on AT&T spectrum. What’s important about this achievement is that the call was made to an unmodified Samsung smartphone. Download speeds of 14 Mbps were achieved. We see AST’s demonstration as proof… Read More »AST SpaceMobile Successfully Completes Space-based 5G Call
Our forecast for both Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 is quite bullish. We expect the switchover towards 6 GHz-based Wi-Fi infrastructure to be more rapid than previous upgrade cycles. Part of our thinking has been that important, high-volume devices like smartphones will incorporate Wi-Fi 6E capabilities. Today, at Apple’s September… Read More »Apple iPhone 15 Pro Has Wi-Fi 6E
