Comments on: Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/11/the-games-a-foot-intel-finally-gets-serious-about-ethernet-switching/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: JWaller https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/11/the-games-a-foot-intel-finally-gets-serious-about-ethernet-switching/#comment-118317 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:16:53 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=40043#comment-118317 Interesting footnote here is (as the article touched upon) how Innovium is affected. If Intel got Barefoot for as low a price as rumor suggests, that somewhat sets the bar. Furthermore, if Intel chooses to stand behind the Tofino products, then Innovium has lost a suitor and gained a more stout competitor. With Broadcom about to drop the hammer (errrr… Tomahawk4) in the near future, Innovium’s margin for error has shrunk to zero. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

]]> By: Manish https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/11/the-games-a-foot-intel-finally-gets-serious-about-ethernet-switching/#comment-118086 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:23:21 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=40043#comment-118086 Hope it is third time lucky for Intel. It was IXE24xx in the first decade of this millennium. Fulcrum in the second and as we get into the third, it is Barefoot.

https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2001/20010830net.htm
https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-to-acquire-fulcrum-microsystems/

]]> By: Gigabob https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/11/the-games-a-foot-intel-finally-gets-serious-about-ethernet-switching/#comment-118053 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:17:46 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=40043#comment-118053 I cannot attribute “Finally Serious about networking” to Intel’s Barefoot acquisition. I applied that term to the Fulcrum acquisition – only to see it buried in the back of beyond. I expect Barefoot may drive an architectural change in Omni-path to get on track with the mainstream HPC directions. From there it remains to be seen what Intel does with the switch chip technology and how it takes these products to market.

]]> By: Michael Orr https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/11/the-games-a-foot-intel-finally-gets-serious-about-ethernet-switching/#comment-118030 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 06:15:16 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=40043#comment-118030 In reply to JWaller.

An even more-than-usual case of NIH. The founder of Xpliant left Marvell to found Xpliant as a Spin-in to Cavium, so if they just squinted a bit the Xpliant chip could be seen as a “marvell Internal”, but Noooo.. So they cancelled the only chip they had at the 3.2Tb Speed Months before their “internal” chip even started sampling.
Way to go.

]]> By: JWaller https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/11/the-games-a-foot-intel-finally-gets-serious-about-ethernet-switching/#comment-118011 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:34:42 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=40043#comment-118011 In reply to ANP.

They scrapped it for their internal solution:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marvell-revolutionizes-edge-data-center-switching-300810829.html

]]> By: ANP https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/11/the-games-a-foot-intel-finally-gets-serious-about-ethernet-switching/#comment-118009 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:41:18 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=40043#comment-118009 No more Xpliant for Marvell : it was divested a while ago.
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/marvell-nixes-the-programmable-xpliant-chip-it-inherited-from-cavium/2018/08/

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