Comments on: How Long Until The ODMs Take Over Ethernet Switching? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/25/how-long-until-the-odms-take-over-ethernet-switching/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 08 Apr 2024 23:30:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/25/how-long-until-the-odms-take-over-ethernet-switching/#comment-222436 Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:06:32 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143869#comment-222436 In reply to John S..

Could not agree more. There is a bifurcation that is insurmountable. The hyperscalers and cloud builders had money at scale and then infrastructure at scale, and now they have performance at scale. A normal enterprise is limited by money, capacity, and now performance. It all comes down to money, don’t it?

]]> By: John S. https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/25/how-long-until-the-odms-take-over-ethernet-switching/#comment-222435 Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:57:41 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143869#comment-222435 I think this just shows the widening gap between the people who run stuff at scale, and those poor shmucks who have to roll their own. I’m including businesses with tight fisted management who don’t want to spend money on “extras”, etc. The hyperscalers can do the math and figure out that spending up front on IPMI and other services, and automation has paybacks. And that allows them to push back on the Ciscos on price and/or get ODMs to build to their specs so their scaling keeps on going.

It’s like comparing a family farm to one of the 2000+ acre farms in the American west. Just a totally different level of scale and needs and ability to spend to save money over the longer haul.

Now how do we get those scaling advantages down into the smaller shops? And how do you get away from the entrenched “I know Cisco, so that’s what I use” mindset as well?

And you have a typo in there as well: “the BGP protocol to last machines together” which probably should be “lash” instead.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/25/how-long-until-the-odms-take-over-ethernet-switching/#comment-222417 Tue, 26 Mar 2024 01:30:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143869#comment-222417 In reply to Adir Zevulun.

Cornelis Networks, for one. Nvidia will, too. Question is: At what price?

]]> By: Adir Zevulun https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/25/how-long-until-the-odms-take-over-ethernet-switching/#comment-222410 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:03:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143869#comment-222410 “Why not use an ODM switch based on InfiniBand”
Who will sell the Silicon to the ODM ?

]]> By: luis River https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/25/how-long-until-the-odms-take-over-ethernet-switching/#comment-222408 Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:57:51 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143869#comment-222408 Excuse me fan tech boys, UltraEthernet tech (consortium)is now in cooking stage, I think soon to surge Therab/s, that specifications interconnection it is in developing route (next, middle this year 2024)

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