Vitesse has targeted the Carrier Ethernet edge for a while, but the ViSAA feature opens up even more possibilities, such as combining enterprise and Carrier Ethernet gear into one box. The general goal is to energize the next wave of products out of systems vendors, especially original design manufacturers (ODMs). Because a large part of the work is provided in hardware, these systems could be developed quickly One early customer got the Serval-2 chips in January and is readying a product launch in May, a pretty fast turnaround, Mudoi says. Elsewhere in the industry, there's the growing question of whether white-box switches could grab more market share as software-defined networking (SDN) takes hold. That's separate from Vitesse's Carrier Ethernet play, but both trends show how chipmakers are ambitiously encouraging faster development of new Ethernet switches. For more
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