Cavium expanded its Xpliant programmable Ethernet switch family to include new products targeting the hybrid cloud environment. Cavium said the XP70 series can scale from 1 Tb/s to 1.8 Tb/s, and is ...

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. We called this ...

The majority of light switches are pretty boring, not these ones from iLumin, the Revio programmable light switches. These funky looking light switches are fully customizable and programmable, and ...

Scottsdale, Ariz. — NKK Switches has released its OLED SmartSwitch and SmartDisplay high-resolution programmable switch and display families. Offering many advantages over conventional LCD ...

Details of the XPliant Packet Architecture are out, and the chips do indeed present a programmable answer to Broadcom's Trident switch chips and their 90% market share. We relayed rumors about Xpliant ...

The paper describes how, with a SOPC (System on a Programmable Chip) architecture embedded with a 32-Bit NIOS-II, a Layer 2 Ethernet switch can be implemented in a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) ...

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced a family of data center switches that enable services to be embedded directly into the switching layer, beginning with security services. Cisco’s Nexus 9300 Series ...

If Andy Bechtolsheim, the chief technology officer at datacenter switching upstart Arista Networks, wanted to design ASICs to try to take a bigger piece of the switch pie – or more precisely, thought ...

BOSTON–Microsoft researchers are experimenting with a programmable, low-cost prototype switch they say could help support cloud or other network-delivered services. In other news: Should smartphones ...

Today’s light switches offer a diverse range of designs and functions, transforming what was once a straightforward choice into a more complex decision. Although the primary function of completing or ...