News in the Channel - issue #37

NETWORKING

Form-factor Pluggable) optics deliver ultra-high bandwidth connectivity. Cisco has introduced new 28.8T modular line cards, enabling a wide range of customers to deploy a common architecture across multiple roles in their network. Cisco Nexus One AI organisations are constantly expressing a need for greater flexibility in where and how they run AI workloads. To address the diverse requirements of these environments, Cisco is advancing Nexus One with a unified management plane that brings together silicon, systems, optics, software and programmable intelligence as a single integrated solution, with improvements to make it easier to troubleshoot through guided, human-in- the-loop conversations that turn complex issues into actionable resolutions.

Silicon One G300 The new Silicon One G300 is a 102.4Tbps switching silicon that sets a new standard for AI backend networking. It is designed to power massive, distributed AI clusters with high performance, security and reliability. The G300 offers what Cisco term ‘Intelligent Collective Networking’, which combines a fully shared packet buffer, path-based load balancing, and proactive network telemetry to offer improved performance and profitability for large- scale data centres. It is programmable for new network configurations even after it has been deployed, can speedily react to irregular heavy peaks in traffic, respond fast to link failures, and prevent packet drops that can stall jobs. Next Gen Cisco N9000 and Cisco 8000 Cisco is introducing the next generation of Cisco N9000 and Cisco 8000 fixed and modular Ethernet systems, powered by Silicon One, and designed for the extreme power and thermal demands of AI workloads. The new 102.4T systems offer the option of liquid-cooled or air- cooled designs. The 100% liquid cooled systems enable significantly higher bandwidth density, offering the same bandwidth in a single system that would previously have required 6 prior (51.2T) generation systems. The 1.6T OSFP (Octal Small

Jeetu Patel chief product officer

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... we’re delivering the critical infrastructure our customers need to move fast and adopt AI safely and securely. “ ”

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