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1. a11r · 1789659411 · focus · HN ↗

   Back in 2008 Fujitsu has one of the best performing 10Gbps Switches. We were building 40 Gbps packet sniffers at Google (4x 10 Gbps NICs) and needed switches that could do things like mirror traffic across ports at line rate. Fujitsu was way ahead of the pack. I always wondered what held them back from building a meaningful networking business in the US.

   1. throwup238 · 1789660988 · focus · HN ↗

      > I always wondered what held them back from building a meaningful networking business in the US.

      It was just timing. Their networking gear was built on some very impressive ASICs which became commodity chips a few years later before they could grow. Arista, Juniper, et al ate their lunch using other vendors’ IP. IIRC it was Broadcom and Fulcrum that released the chips that killed them.

      1. Den_VR · 1789664058 · focus · HN ↗

         Another broadcom related tragedy

         1. fzeindl · 1789725532 · focus · HN ↗

            Broadcom has a vast amount of patents that they leverage in their business decisions.

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