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New USFP Pluggable Optics Form Factor for Higher Speeds from Cisco and NVIDIA

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:00:40 +0000

Cisco and NVIDIA team up announcing a new USFP form factor for 400G SerDes lanes. Cisco also has a few new Silicon One offerings The post New USFP Pluggable Optics Form Factor for Higher Speeds from Cisco and NVIDIA appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA Expands to Supermicro Rack-Scale Systems

Vic A — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:40:18 +0000

The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is expanding to include integrated racks from Supermicro to meet larger scale AI cluster needs The post Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA Expands to Supermicro Rack-Scale Systems appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Catalyst C1300-16XTS Review A 16-Port 10G Switch

Rohit Kumar — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:30:02 +0000

In our Cisco Catalyst C1300-16XTS review, we see how this neat 16-port 10GbE switch performs, how it is made, and how it is managed The post Cisco Catalyst C1300-16XTS Review A 16-Port 10G Switch appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XT-2X Review A Better 14-Port 10GbE Managed Switch

Rohit Kumar — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:00:42 +0000

In our Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XT-2X review, we see how this 12-port 10Gbase-T and 2-port SFP+ switch performs and how it has a neat design The post Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XT-2X Review A Better 14-Port 10GbE Managed Switch appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XS Review A Neat 12-Port 10GbE Managed Switch

Rohit Kumar — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000

In our Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XS review, we see how this 12-port 10GbE switch's build quality, management, and performance differentiate it The post Cisco Catalyst C1300-12XS Review A Neat 12-Port 10GbE Managed Switch appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Catalyst C1300-8FP-2G Review a 10-Port PoE Managed Switch from Cisco

Rohit Kumar — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:41:29 +0000

In our Cisco Catalyst C1300-8FP-2G review, we see how Cisco built a great passively cooled PoE+ switch for small deployments The post Cisco Catalyst C1300-8FP-2G Review a 10-Port PoE Managed Switch from Cisco appeared first on ServeTheHome.

10GbE in 2026 is Finally Hitting the Tipping Point

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:00:02 +0000

Why 2026 will be the tipping point for 10GbE networking at the edge, and what we are doing about it at STH The post 10GbE in 2026 is Finally Hitting the Tipping Point appeared first on ServeTheHome.

MLPerf Training v5.1 NVIDIA Dominates while AMD Has a Strong Showing and Cisco Silicon

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:16:30 +0000

MLPerf Training v5.1 is out, with NVIDIA dominating. AMD showed up and performed well. Cisco Silicon One and MangoBoost DPUs made cameos The post MLPerf Training v5.1 NVIDIA Dominates while AMD Has a Strong Showing and Cisco Silicon appeared first on S...

Cisco UCS XE9305 3U Edge Server Launched with Intel Xeon 6 SoC

Cliff Robinson — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:38:08 +0000

Cisco launched a really neat new 3U edge server based on the Intel Xeon 6 SoC. The Cisco UCS XE9305 is the company's next-gen edge platform The post Cisco UCS XE9305 3U Edge Server Launched with Intel Xeon 6 SoC appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Silicon One P200 and Cisco 8223 for 51.2T Scale Across Networking

Rohit Kumar — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:50:00 +0000

The Cisco Silicon One P200 and Cisco 8223 are designed for scale-across networking for geographically distant AI clusters The post Cisco Silicon One P200 and Cisco 8223 for 51.2T Scale Across Networking appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Silicon One Joins NVIDIA Spectrum-X

Rohit Kumar — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:08:36 +0000

Cisco Silicon One joins the NVIDIA Spectrum-X ecosystem adding a new switch silicon provider to the AI networking rush The post Cisco Silicon One Joins NVIDIA Spectrum-X appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Meta Announces AMD Instinct MI300X for AI Inference and NVIDIA GB200 Catalina

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:44:33 +0000

Meta outlined its AI platforms at OCP Summit 2024, including GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA and networking from Marvell, Broadcom, Cisco and Arista The post Meta Announces AMD Instinct MI300X for AI Inference and NVIDIA GB200 Catalina appeared first on Serve...

Cisco 8102-DPU 12.8T Switch with AMD Pensando

Rohit Kumar — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:48:00 +0000

We saw the Cisco 8102-DPU a 12.8T switch that can house up to eight AMD Pensando DPUs for 1.6T of programmable service acceleration The post Cisco 8102-DPU 12.8T Switch with AMD Pensando appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco Can’t Stop Using Hard-Coded Passwords

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:04:53 +0000

There’s a new Cisco vulnerability in its Emergency Responder product:

This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that are typically reserved for use during development. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

This is not the first time Cisco products have had hard-coded passwords made public. You’d think it would learn...

Cisco Touts Co-Packaged Optics Future with Demo

Rohit Kumar — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:48:42 +0000

Cisco touts its co-packaged optics module with pluggable light sources to drastically reduce switch power and increase MTBF and serviceability The post Cisco Touts Co-Packaged Optics Future with Demo appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Cisco UCS M7 Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids Launched

Cliff Robinson — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:00:49 +0000

The new Cisco UCS M7 generation with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors is out. We cover a few interesting launch tidbits. The post Cisco UCS M7 Servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids Launched appeared first on ServeTheHo...

Node.JS module to access Cisco IOS XR XML interface

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:45:00 +0000

Hello to all, This is the early version of my module for Node.JS that allows configuring routers and retrieving information over Cisco IOS XR's XML interface. The module is in its early phases - it still does not read IOS XR schema files and the...

Example how to use node-netflowv9 and define your own netflow type decoders

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 17:01:00 +0000

This is an example of how you can use node-netflowv9 library (version >= 0.2.5) to define your own proprietary Netflow v9 type decoders if they are not supported. The given primer is adding decoding for types 30000, 30001, 30002 for Cisco ASA/PIX ...

New improved version of the node-netflowv9 module for Node.JS

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:33:00 +0000

As I have mentioned before, I have implemented a NetFlowV9 compatible library for decode of Cisco NetFlow version 9 packets for Node.JS. Now I am upgrading it to version 0.1 which has few updates: bug fixes (including avoidance of an issue that ...