“The decision could be made by the server,” he says. With the MXC and similar silicon photonics, servers can communicate directly without any switch between them, Raza says.

The 1U device has a fiber port that can support up to 64 25Gbps lanes at 800G to 1.6Tbps of capacity – which is similar in capacity to the Intel and Corning MXC connector. Raza says he knows of a vendor – whom he wouldn’t name – offering an Intel multicore server motherboard with a Broadcom Trident II switch chip and a high capacity fiber connector. Why can’t that decision be made at the server? It can be made at the server.” If we put the switching function inside a server, it’s the same logic as a rack front-ending a number of servers it’s the housing of a server with a switch in it front-ending a bunch of VMs. “Switching as a function moves from being inside a box called a switch to a function that co-resides inside a box we call a server. “We’re getting rid of layers: layers of switches, layers of links between switches,” says MH Raza, Fiber Mountain founder and CEO.

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