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5G O-RAN Fronthaul PTP Switch: How to Solve Nanosecond-Level Synchronization for Small Cell Deployment
In traditional data networks, a delay of a few milliseconds in packet delivery merely causes an imperceptible lag in web page loading. In 5G…
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Asteraix 100G-1.6T AI & Cloud Data Center Switch Overview
We delivers a next-generation Ethernet switching platform designed for the evolving needs of AI, HPC, storage, and cloud infrastructure. Covering speeds from 100G to…
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Asteraix CME102: Marvell OCTEON 10-Powered COM Express Type 7 Module for Open Networking
COM Express (Computer-on-Module Express) is a compact standard specification for computer modules. It packs a computer's most core components — CPU, memory, chipset, and…
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Beyond Virtual IP Failover: How AsterNOS-VPP Delivers Dual-WAN Stateful High Availability
Using VRRP Sync Group and HA Sync to protect enterprise edge connectivity during router failover
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What Is a PTP Switch, Why It Matters, and How It Works
In traditional networks, we mainly focus on only two metrics: bandwidth and latency. Bandwidth determines how much data can be carried (like the thickness…
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What Is PTP Time Synchronization? ITU-T Class A, B, C in Networking Explained
In our previous article, we explored how PTP switches utilize hardware timestamping to relentlessly minimize synchronization errors down to the nanosecond level. However, there…
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How to Choose the Right 100G Switch for AI, HPC, NVMe and Cloud Workloads: A Complete Guide
In today's data center infrastructure evolution, 100G has unambiguously become the mainstream standard. Whether it's the full-scale rollout across public cloud hyperscaler networks or…
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Scale-Up, Scale-Out, and Scale-Across: The Three Core Scaling Strategies in AI Data Centers
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence models, model sizes are growing at an unprecedented pace. From large language models to multimodal models, the…
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Campus Networks Are Going Data Center: How Leaf-Spine, EVPN, and VXLAN Are Redrawing Network Boundaries
So let's go back to that original question: can you mix and match data center switches and campus switches?
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