When speeds drop, we assume the switch is overheating, or a port has gone bad, or perhaps the packet buffer is overflowing.

Two decades ago, the hyperscalers and cloud builders started remaking the Ethernet switch market in the datacenter in their own image, and now it looks like AI training and inference is going to morph ...

Broadcom Inc. has launched the Tomahawk Ultra Ethernet switch for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. Designed for HPC environments and AI clusters, the Tomahawk Ultra delivers ...

Our hacker [Andrew Zonenberg] reports in on his open-source high-speed Ethernet switch. He hasn’t finished yet, but progress has been made. If you were wondering what might be involved in a high-speed ...

Well, that didn’t take long. In April 2020, Nvidia completed its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies for its InfiniBand and Ethernet switching, and a little more than five years and a ...

Broadcom has launched the Tomahawk Ultra Ethernet switch, designed for high-performance computing and AI workloads, offering ultra-low latency and lossless networking. Broadcom Inc. has announced the ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 15, 2025 — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), a global leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced the shipment of its breakthrough Ethernet switch ...

Updates include massive-scale campus Wi-Fi infrastructure, an expanded release of Arista's AVA AIOps software, and new ...

Conventional Ethernet switches optimize for maximum throughput, but Broadcom's new Tomahawk Ultra data center networking chip prioritizes ultra low latency. Ethernet dominates enterprise and scale-out ...

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