HPE product barrage targets AI networks, agents, management
HPE unveils new QFX switch, tightens integration between its Juniper networking portfolio and HPE AI Data Center products, and much more.
HPE unveils new QFX switch, tightens integration between its Juniper networking portfolio and HPE AI Data Center products, and much more. At its Discover event in Las Vegas this week, the vendor announced HPE Juniper Networking QFX switches aimed at inferencing and scale-up architectures.
The short version
- Its port density can be configured to support 24× 400G QSFP112, 8× 800G OSFP800 and 2x SFP28 ports, and it includes support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv2).
- Additional capabilities include congestion management features such as Priority Flow Control and Explicit Congestion Notification and dynamic load balancing — all features that enable effective GPU-to-GPU communications, according to HPE CTO Fidelma Russo .
- The box fills out the mid-tier of the HPE Juniper QFX family, which includes the high-end 102T QFX5240/QFX5250 and entry-level 100GBE QFX 5100.
- HPE also announced the QFX5252 module for its 72GPU-per-rack AMD Helios turnkey package aimed AI training and high-volume inferencing.
What the source reports
HPE also expanded Mist data center capabilities to include predictive analytics for proactive maintenance of network components. For example, Mist can now use AI/ML technology to predict potential optics failures that would cause network outages. The space is moving quickly, and leadership is still very much up for grabs.” Unified SASE efforts HPE is also trying to simplify WAN access to data center resources. That’s the driving idea behind a new SASE Orchestrator package.
Why it matters
It ties together the vendor’s SD-WAN and SSE with cloud security and a unified policy engine that will use AI to manage branch, remote user, and cloud connectivity from one place.
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