Network Break 447: Cisco Chases AI Ethernet Fabrics With New Silicon One ASICs; Nokia Announces Routers With Custom Silicon

This week’s Network Break starts with follow-up on Elon Musk and Starlink. On the news front, Cisco announces end-of-life for its Hyperflex Data Platform and commits to its Nutanix partnership for HCI. Cisco also announces a new service provider router, and rolls out new custom Ethernet switch ASICs to compete for AI fabrics. Nokia announces new routers also boasting custom silicon, Intel makes noise about the Thunderbolt 5 connector, Marvell touts ASICs for automotive Ethernet, the AfriNIC registry goes into receivership, and the new Elon Musk biography tells stories of Elon physically moving servers at a Twitter data center. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Palo Alto Networks Your branch has changed. Your SD-WAN should, too. Join Palo Alto Networks to see how AI/ML is powering next-gen SD-WAN and SASE for the branch. SDxCentral and Palo Alto Networks hosted an exclusive online event that shows how next-gen SD-WAN and SASE can help you modernize and secure your branches. Go to SDXcentral.com to get the link to this free event to see the replay. Show Links: Cisco EOL and End of Sales Announcements on Hyperflex components – Cisco Cisco HyperFlex End-of-Life FAQ – Cisco Cisco And Nutanix Partnership Will Deliver More Than HCI – Forbes Cisco 8608 Architecture White Paper Cisco 8000 – @xrdocs Introducing Cisco 8000 Centralized Router – Cisco 8608 – YouTube Cisco Silicon One Breaks the 51.2 Tbps Barrier – Cisco Blogs Cisco Guns For InfiniBand With Silicon One G200 – The Next Platform Nokia redefines IP access, aggregation and edge networks with next generation routers – Nokia FPcx routing silicon – Nokia 7730 Service Interconnect Router (SXR) – Nokia Intel Introduces Thunderbolt 5 Connectivity Standard – Intel TBT5-Press-Deck-9-12-2023.pdf – Intel (PDF)