Pretraining a modern large language model (LLM), often with ~100B parameters or more, typically involves thousands of ...

It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the ...

Demand for new and better AI models is creating an insatiable demand for more processing power and much better data throughput, but it’s also creating a slew of new challenges for which there are not ...

I recently sat through a presentation where an analyst said that 802.11n wouldn’t be that successful because it offers on the order of 100Mbit/sec., and “no one needs that kind of performance.” I ...

There was an interesting discussion over in one of the Cisco forums on how to calculate your WAN speed. Those of you who read my last post know that packet loss, latency, and bandwidth all play into ...