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Why full-stack optimization is critical for the next era of AI infrastructure

You can buy the fastest compute in the world, but if your storage and your network aren’t optimized to work together i ...

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Networking Is Core to AI Factory Full-Stack Optimization

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Networking Is Core to AI Factory Full-Stack Optimization

After spending time at RAISE Summit 2026 in Paris, one message was clear: the AI industry is moving from model excitemen ...

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The Hidden Cost of Moving Your KV Cache

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The Hidden Cost of Moving Your KV Cache

The AI industry has grown significantly since the introduction of the attention mechanism in 2017, reaching the point wh ...

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Inside WhiteFiber’s long-distance scale-across deployment

We previously discussed an operational reality for NeoClouds and AI infrastructure builders. AI workloads are increasing ...

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The Hidden Mismatch Inside Every AI Cluster

AI infrastructure has, for most of its history, run on a one-size-fits-all assumption: pick a flagship GPU, build a flee ...

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DriveNets Back-to-Back Fills the Telcos’ Edge and Aggregation Gap

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DriveNets Back-to-Back Fills the Telcos’ Edge and Aggregation Gap

Service providers know the grey zone between edge and aggregation all too well. These are the sites where every option f ...

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Round D

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The most expensive idle asset in the world right now is a GPU waiting on the network

We’re living through the most active AI accelerator cycle in the AI era. NVIDIA Blackwell is here. Rubin’s next. AM ...

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Heterogeneous AI – the next AI revolution

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Heterogeneous AI – the next AI revolution

Artificial intelligence is here to stay. The ever exponentially-growing investment in AI infrastructure is expected to c ...

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System-Level Optimization of AI Infrastructure with AMD Instinct GPUs

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System-Level Optimization of AI Infrastructure with AMD Instinct GPUs

If you have built an AI cluster, you already know it is not a simple task. It is not just racking and stacking hardware ...

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How AMD Instinct Shines in Real-World LLM Inference

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How AMD Instinct Shines in Real-World LLM Inference

AI workloads have moved beyond experimentation into deep production environments. Today, performance is no longer about ...

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Faster LLM Inference on AMD Requires Rethinking All-Reduce

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Faster LLM Inference on AMD Requires Rethinking All-Reduce

AMD Instinct GPUs offer real hardware advantages for large AI clusters, including higher HBM3 memory capacity and compet ...

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Why is Networking the New Bottleneck for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and how to solve it?

For years, the AI industry operated on one rule: compute is king. More parameters, more GPUs, more raw processing power. ...

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The Network Can Make or Break the Multi-Tenant HPC/AI cluster

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The Network Can Make or Break the Multi-Tenant HPC/AI Cluster

Today it’s clear to everyone in the AI infrastructure industry that training massive models isn’t just about raw com ...

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Service Providers and AI – from Bottom Line to Top Line

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Service Providers and AI – from Bottom Line to Top Line

AI has been dominating technology-related conversations for over two years now. This also applies to the service provide ...

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DriveNets 2025: The Inflection Point

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DriveNets 2025: The Inflection Point

Last week, I celebrated 5 years in DriveNets (joined in January 2021, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic). Even thou ...

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Ethernet beats InfiniBand in production. See the numbers

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Ethernet beats InfiniBand in production. See the numbers

Today it’s clear to everyone in the AI infrastructure industry that training massive models isn’t just about raw com ...

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Latency in AI Networking – Inevitable Limitation to Challenge (SAMPLE POST)

A well-maintained changelog enhances user experience, builds trust, and streamlines communication. This article presents ...

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5 Key Challenges System Integrators Face When Building Large-Scale AI Clusters

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5 Key Challenges System Integrators Face When Building Large-Scale AI Clusters

Today, the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is introducing new challenges that stretch the limits of both traditiona ...

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The Nanosecond Battle: How Networks Determine HFT AI Success

In the high-stakes world of global finance, the “race to zero latency” has evolved. For years, the battleground for ...

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SC25 Recap – AI and More

Heading back from St. Louis late last week, I had some time to reflect on the very busy week of the SC25 event. When it ...

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Networking Nightmares! Devilish Downtime, Lurking Latency and Monstrous AI Workloads

Carved your pumpkin and picked the perfect Halloween costume? Halloween is not just a good time for sharing scary stori ...

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InfiniBand vs Ethernet – Why Ethernet fits AI Networking needs

As AI clusters scale from thousands to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the choice of network fabric, InfiniBand or Ethern ...

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OCP Global Summit 2025 Recap – Ethernet Rules!

It’s that time of year again – time to recap the annual OCP Global Summit that was recently held in San Jose, Califo ...

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Optimizing AMD Instinct AI Clusters with DriveNets’ Lossless Ethernet Fabric

The DriveNets Network Cloud-AI networking fabric solution delivers the highest performance AI connectivity for any GPU, ...

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Hybrid Scaling: Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and Scale-Across Gain New Meaning

Have you noticed how “scale-up” and “scale-out” are becoming popular terms in recent AI infrastructure discussio ...

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7 Key Takeaways from Our Customer AI Deployment Webinar

Building AI infrastructure goes far beyond simply connecting GPUs, it demands precise orchestration of compute, networki ...

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The People Behind DriveNets: Andy Holland

What do you need to know about Andy Holland – DriveNets' new AI sales leader? –> With excellent solutions and exp ...

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DriveNets and Broadcom Share Vision for Routing and AI Innovation

Strong partnerships that substantially increase value provided to customers can fundamentally change a company's – and ...

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Insights from ISC 2025: Evolving AI and HPC Networks

I just got back from rainy Hamburg after another great ISC conference. ISC 2025 was an event full of energy and ideas th ...

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From Data to Experts: Mapping AI Parallelism to Network Requirements

Parallelism is the engine behind modern AI scalability, but it's only as effective as the networking infrastructure supp ...

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How to Overcome AI Cluster Deployment Challenges

Today high-performance computing is no longer confined to hyperscalers. NeoClouds and Enterprises across finance, health ...

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Rail vs ToR Architectures: Which Is Best for AI Clusters?

As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads scale to thousands—and sometimes hundreds of thousands—of GPUs, the underl ...

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Re-engineering Ethernet for AI – Inside DriveNets Lossless Fabric

Prized for its low latency and lossless transport, InfiniBand has been for years the go-to networking technology for hig ...

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AIOps Slashes Network Downtime by 87%

AIOps (artificial intelligence for operations) means using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to mak ...

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May The Fourth Be With You(r Network)

First off, may the force be with you on this May the Fourth. The most oft-repeated line, “May the Force be with you,� ...

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What Does Hitless Upgrade Networking Look Like?

Imagine never having to schedule a 3 AM network maintenance window again. No late-night cutovers, no telling customers � ...

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Network Transformation is Back – Insights from DriveNets MWC25 Panel

At DriveNets’ MWC25 panel, executives from AT&T, Orange, KDDI, Cox Communications, and Broadcom came together to d ...

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GTC Recap – 3 Thoughts About Nvidia, 3 Thoughts About Networking

It was an exhausting week here in San Jose at Nvidia GTC 2025. The conference is definitely becoming the main event for ...

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RoCEv2 as a Scale-out Transport Protocol

Good Today but Better Tomorrow with Fabric-Scheduled Ethernet As data center demands grow exponentially, enterprises a ...

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Orange’s Path to a New Disaggregated Network Design

Thinking about disaggregation takes me back to late nights in the network lab at Orange in 2008. I particularly remember ...

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Scaling AI Workloads Over Multiple Sites through Lossless Connectivity

If it were up to my twins, they would spend all their waking hours on their smartphones. That’s why I use parental tim ...

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The New SP Network – Resolving Challenges with a New Network Blueprint

February is always a great month to review the state of the telecom industry. And Barcelona is a great place to do it.

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Open Your AI Infrastructure Supply Chain

In today’s competitive artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, hyperscalers and large enterprises are rapidly recogniz ...

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One Fabric To Rule Them All: Unified Network for AI Compute & Storage

An artificial intelligence (AI) cluster architecture integrates backend compute and storage networking components to mee ...

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Building an AI Infrastructure for Pharma and Biotech

Drug development/discovery and biotech are R&D-intensive life sciences fields in which the analysis of very large da ...

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Fastest AI Cluster Deployment Now a New Industry Requirement

A new breed of cloud provider has emerged – the "NeoCloud" provider. These companies, like CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Lamb ...

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Building an AI Infrastructure for Automotive Companies

The automotive industry has changed, in the last decade, to become a software-centric, computation-intensive industry. T ...

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Building an AI/ML Infrastructure for Finance Companies

The finance sector is perhaps the one with the largest number of artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) us ...

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A Wicked Blogpost: Defying Legacy

As we reach the end of the year and get deeper into the holiday spirit, we’ve given our spin on the popular Broadway S ...

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Latency in AI Networking: Inevitable Limitation to Solvable Challenge

While latency is often discussed as an unavoidable bottleneck in networking and system performance, advancements in tech ...

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Are you in a Rocky Horror Network Show?

Carved your pumpkin and picked the perfect Halloween costume? Well, Halloween is here again. While Halloween spooks out ...

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Why Comcast Uses DriveNets Network Cloud

This week at the SCTE TechExpo24, Comcast announced a major change to its network architecture. Comcast’s new “Janus ...

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Modernizing MSO Networks and Simplifying Architecture

The new MSO network architecture, Disaggregated, Virtualized Networks from DOCSIS 4.0 to the Core.

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Optimize Your Enterprise AI with the Right Cluster Fabric

ChatGPT was introduced on November 30, 2022. Since then, AI (artificial intelligence) has become the most used buzzword ...

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First Ethernet DDC Scheduled AI Fabric Now in Production

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have witnessed dramatic growth since the end of 2022, with hypers ...

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Ethernet Moves into Dominant Position in AI Networking

Massive June-July 2024 Announcements to Push Ethernet into Dominant Position in AI Networking. Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, ...

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Fabric for AI Training Clusters – Should InfiniBand Be Your Default?

Are you one of the lucky ones that gets to build large-scale AI training clusters? If so, you’ve probably realized by ...

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DCI for Hyperscalers and Cloud Providers

Since the early days of Amazon Web Services it was clear that AWS had found the right formula. AWS revolutionized the  ...

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GPU and AI ASIC Diversity to Drive Ethernet

As we enter the second half of 2024, the AI/ML market is rapidly moving towards next-generation GPUs and AI ASICs. GPU d ...

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Building an 8K GPU Cluster with High-Performance Ethernet Connectivity

Let’s go under the hood of DriveNets Network Cloud-AI…When building a large GPU cluster for artificial intelligence ...

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Why DriveNets Can Lead in Ethernet-based AI Networking

AI is dominating the discussions in the cloud infrastructure markets, and it’s for a good reason. AI may be the larges ...

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Transforming Network Infrastructure: DIGI deploys DriveNets Network Cloud

Already carrying significant customer traffic for a commercial network in Romania, DriveNets recently announced that its ...

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How the Telecom Industry Can Regain Its Innovative Edge

You may have noticed that the technology hype has recently flowed into areas such as cloud services and AI. Once again, ...

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Collapsing Network Layers Reshapes Network Architecture

Ever since the introduction of the OSI 7-layer model, it’s been common practice to handle each layer separately. After ...

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AI Networking Moves Ahead with DriveNets and Broadcom Jericho3AI

We have all witnessed the significant growth of the AI market since the end of 2022. Hyperscale companies like Microsoft ...

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Comcast’s Operational Value from DDC Architecture

Disaggregation is delivering an array of operational advantages to the large cable operator. Aliraza Bhimani, a princip ...

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Panel Recap: Next Generation System Design for Maximizing ML Performance

Last week, I attended the “AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit” in Santa Clara. I was honored to participate in the "Ne ...

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Crafting Tailored Networks with Flex-Algo

In the rapidly evolving landscape of networking technologies, segment routing (SR) has gained significant traction due t ...

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Reduce AI Job Completion Time with DDC

As the volume and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) models continue to grow, reducing job completion time (JCT) ...

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From Legacy to Disaggregated Networks: KDDI Deploys DriveNets Network Cloud

Two years ago, KDDI joined forces with other service providers (SPs) to pioneer open and disaggregated solutions for IP ...

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DriveNets Enters the AI Networking, A Market Expected to Exceed $10B by 2027

AI took the world by storm early this year, with ChatGPT showing a transformational leap in how humans interact with mac ...

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People Behind DriveNets: Shunsuke Sasaki

After more than 13 years at Cisco, Shunsuke Sasaki followed on the path of one of his previous managers from Cisco, and ...

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People Behind DriveNets: Juan Rodriguez

After more than 16 years at Telefonica, Juan Rodriguez was looking for a change, and to apply his tech leadership in net ...

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People Behind DriveNets: Calin Miculescu

After nearly 12 years at Nokia, Calin Miculescu was looking to bring innovation to high-scale networks. “With DriveNet ...

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The People Behind DriveNets: Jade Mansour

After serving many years with some of the largest, most established vendors in the networking industry, Jade was excited ...

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Telecom Industry Predictions for 2023

2022 was an interesting year. Now, it’s that time of year again when we look at what experts from the industry are say ...

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Cars and Networks – The Industries Under Disruption

Entering the software era The car and networking industries are very much alike… (Ok, no, they are not, but bear wit ...

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High-scale Network Disaggregation: Busting the Myths

The network architecture used by service providers has barely changed in the past two decades, while demand continues to ...

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Bank of America (BofA) Calls White Box Routing a Transformative Disruption

A month ago, Bank of America’s (BofA) Global Research team issued a Primer paper on white box routing. They concluded ...

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What Technical Benefits Lead us to Invent a Distributed NOS

In my recent blog post, I explored the challenges we faced in developing our own fully distributed network operating sys ...

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