Innoviumは細分化されたスイッチングを大衆にプッシュします

スイッチシリコンベンダーのInnoviumは本日、TeraCertifiedを発表しました。これは、細分化されたネットワーキングテクノロジーの採用を容易にするプログラムであり、私のハイパースケーラーを長い間擁護してきました。Switch silicon vendor Innovium today announced TeraCertified, a program that attempts to ease the adoption of disaggregated networking technologies long championed my hyperscalers. The program works by pre-validating Innovium’s switch silicon with optics and original design manufacturing (ODM) partners. The chipmaker is also standardizing on the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) network operating system (NOS), which was originally designed for use in Microsoft’s Azure public cloud before it was open sourced. “We want to bring to networking an open, disaggregated model that exists in other spaces in the IT industry — compute and other places — and has already been adopted in the hyperscaler space, but is not yet prevalent in the broader market,” CEO Rajiv Khemani said. Founded in 2014, Innovium has carved out a significant stake in a data center switching market long dominated by rival Broadcom. While Broadcom still commands approximately 76% of the market, according to research from the 650 Group, Innovium has over the past six years secured 23% of the market along with crucial partnerships with switch vendors like Cisco. Today’s announcement signals Innovium’s efforts to chip away at its merchant silicon rivals with the introduction of validated white-box hardware through its ODM partners. Khemani explains that across the industry, the world is moving to disaggregated architectures in which the individual components of a system can be mixed and matched to achieve the desired effect. He added that until now, network disaggregation has only been successful for hyperscalers and cloud providers. “The reason it hasn’t happened is that today if an enterprise wants to do disaggregation, they have to get white-box hardware from somewhere else, they have to get a network operating system from somewhere else, they have to get cables, optics, from some other place,” he said. “And when they put it all together, and it doesn’t work, the customers don’t know what to do.” By taking advantage of SONiC and validating its switch silicon against a large number of pluggable optics, Innovium hopes to drive the adoption of disaggregated white-box switches down market, and make it a viable option for enterprises and service provider partners. “All of this is now offers an open, robust solution for an enterprise or the next tier of customers,” Amit Sanyal, VP of marketing at Innovium, said. While Innovium is championing disaggregated networking with its TeraCertified program, Sanyal said the company has no plans to stop selling to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners and hyperscale customers or start offering white-box switches itself. He added that the company continue to develop switch ASICs and partner with ODMs and service providers to bring switch hardware based on its Teralynx silicon to market, in a similar fashion to Broadcom. According to Innovium, 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, 400 Gb/s-capable switches from its partners will start hitting the market sometime in mid-2021, while 800 Gb/s switches will be available by the end of the year.