When you’ve spent a career in networking as I did at Cisco designing global service provider backbones and architecting massively scalable enterprise data-centers, you start to appreciate the art of engineering trade-offs. The subtle details behind ASIC design, optical signaling, and network hops can make-or-break stringent performance tolerances; they can also directly influence business outcomes.
That’s why, for me, one of the most significant announcements at Oracle AI World wasn’t about GPUs, it was about networking. Specifically,
Oracle’s Acceleron fabric, the new backbone of
OCI’s AI infrastructure.
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