At the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026, the analysts talked about big AI-driven spending growth in a wildly changing tech environment...
- Extreme Networks is previewing a technology that will let enterprise customers run AI applications locally, at branch offices or other distributed sites, using a mix of on-premises compute and spare network equipment processing capacity.
- Proponents of SONiC made a strong showing at last week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, where vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and Nokia championed the platform’s capabilities as an open Ethernet platform for AI networking.
- Cisco and Nvidia have teamed up again to deliver a high-capacity pluggable optical system that promises to let customers more quickly and easily build Ethernet AI fabrics.
- Arista sees Ethernet as the scale-up networking fabric of choice for AI and a seiros alternative to proprietary interconnects like Nvidia's NVLink. Arista has rolled out new Ethernet reference architectures as well as a raft of integration partnerships
