Ethernet Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/ethernet/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Ethernet Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/ethernet/ 32 32 86113652 Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:37:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145327 In many ways, Arista Networks still behaves like a startup even though it was founded twenty years ago, rollout out its first products a little more than a decade and a half ago, went public a decade ago, and now as over 10,000 customers and over 100 million Ethernet ports sold that generated a cumulative $32 billion in revenues for hardware, software, and support. …

Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/feed/ 0 145327 Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/06/ethernet-switching-still-in-recession-thanks-to-ai-shift/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/06/ethernet-switching-still-in-recession-thanks-to-ai-shift/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:37:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145163 The original design manufacturers, or ODMs, as well as the portions of the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, that act like ODMs in that they create custom machines for hyperscalers and cloud builders and sell that at high volume and low margin, have long since taken over the server market. …

Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/06/ethernet-switching-still-in-recession-thanks-to-ai-shift/feed/ 0 145163 Eviden Mainstreams BXI Interconnect Thanks To Ultra Ethernet And AI Boom https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/10/eviden-mainstreams-bxi-interconnect-thanks-to-ultra-ethernet-and-ai-boom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/10/eviden-mainstreams-bxi-interconnect-thanks-to-ultra-ethernet-and-ai-boom/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:04:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145117 Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. …

Eviden Mainstreams BXI Interconnect Thanks To Ultra Ethernet And AI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/10/eviden-mainstreams-bxi-interconnect-thanks-to-ultra-ethernet-and-ai-boom/feed/ 7 145117 Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:39:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145091 It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. …

Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/feed/ 1 145091 HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:19:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145055 If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …

HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/feed/ 5 145055 UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/14/uec-doesnt-want-to-kill-infiniband-but-it-wants-ethernet-to-beat-it/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/14/uec-doesnt-want-to-kill-infiniband-but-it-wants-ethernet-to-beat-it/#comments Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:35:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144993 Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …

UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/14/uec-doesnt-want-to-kill-infiniband-but-it-wants-ethernet-to-beat-it/feed/ 2 144993 The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/12/the-collaboration-that-will-drive-ethernet-into-the-hpc-and-ai-future/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/12/the-collaboration-that-will-drive-ethernet-into-the-hpc-and-ai-future/#comments Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:24:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144987 Any time you can get a lot of companies with very technically adept and strongly opinionated people to work together on a problem, or a set of problems, then you know for a fact that there is a real problem. …

The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/12/the-collaboration-that-will-drive-ethernet-into-the-hpc-and-ai-future/feed/ 3 144987 The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:17:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144976 For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …

The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/feed/ 1 144976 Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/01/even-as-bandwidth-needs-explode-ethernet-spending-is-in-recession/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/01/even-as-bandwidth-needs-explode-ethernet-spending-is-in-recession/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:31:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144762 No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …

Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/01/even-as-bandwidth-needs-explode-ethernet-spending-is-in-recession/feed/ 0 144762 Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/26/bechtolsheim-outlines-scaling-xpu-performance-by-100x-by-2028/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/26/bechtolsheim-outlines-scaling-xpu-performance-by-100x-by-2028/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:12:10 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144576 Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. …

Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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